As a still fertile and sheltered oasis at the heart of an increasingly commercial sector of Maine's scenic coast, Taunton Bay deserves protection as a unique and self sustaining natural area largely unimpaired by human intervention. Once known for it's timber, mining, quarrying, and shipbuilding industries, the bay is now the focus of a rural residential community linking the three towns of Hancock, Sullivan, and Franklin. It is a shallow embayment estuary having national significance because of its resident wildlife. The wildlife found at Taunton Bay include two nesting pairs of Bald Eagles, a colony of Blue Herons, two nesting pairs of Osprey, Loons, Harbor Seals, and Horseshoe Crabs at the northern limit of their range. Also thousands of migrating Geese, Shore Birds, and a notable population of Ducks in the colder months. The bay still supports a variety of fisheries for worms, clams, mussels, scallops, crabs, and lobsters, to which all are dependent upon the natural productivity of their relatively unndisturbed marine environment.