The Sea Mink was a large, coastal mink of New England and the Maritime Provinces of Canada that was hunted to extinction by the late 19th century for its especially prized reddish-brown pelt. It is known only from bones found in Indigenous shell middens and accounts by fur traders. The Sea Mink was the only marine mustelid native to the Atlantic Coast and is one of the few North American mammals documented to have gone extinct in historical times.
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