Most sea mink remains are unearthed on the coast of Maine.[1] Though it is speculated that they at one point inhabited Connecticut and Rhode Island, they were commonly trapped along the coast of the Bay of Fundy (in the Gulf of Maine), and it is said that they formerly existed on the southwestern coast of Nova Scotia.[2] There were reports of unusually large mink furs being collected from Nova Scotia regularly.[3][4] The bones of a specimen unearthed in Middleboro, Massachusetts, were dated to be around 4,300±300 years old, 19 kilometers (12 mi) from salt water.[16] The sea mink may have reached that area by traveling up rivers, or may have been brought there by Native Americans.