General Information Despite being highly industrial and urbanized, New Jersey nonetheless offers some often overlooked hunting and angling opportunities. Nearly half of the 7,468-square-mile state remains rural in nature, and a good portion of the rural area continues to be wooded. The Garden State's eastern seaboard offers many miles of Atlantic coastline which serves as a mecca for recreational activities in the milder spring, summer, and autumn months. Capital City: Trenton Largest City: Newark National Parks and Forests: Delaware Water Gap National Recreational Area Sport Fishing New Jersey has over 75 major watersheds, 3,000 acres of farm ponds, and the Atlantic coastline that together define roughly three-quarters of New Jersey's borders and offer a surprising variety of angling opportunity from striped bass to chain pickerel. The Delaware and Manasquan rivers and Big Flat Brook provide good angling for native brook, brown and rainbow trout. American shad runs have improved in the Delaware, restoring its reputation as a productive shad fishery. Many warm-water species inhabit New Jersey inland waters. The chain pickerel is the most widely distributed sport fish, while smallmouth and largemouth bass, panfish and carp also occur in many of New Jersey's inland watersheds. The Atlantic Ocean on New Jersey's eastern shoreline and the Delaware Bay offer anglers many species of marine game fish to try their luck on, with good success most times throughout the year. The river mouths, tidal bays, and surf support striped bass, bluefish, fluke and flounder. Tuna, white marlin, albacore, mako shark and dolphin migrate along the continental shelf off the coast of New Jersey. For registration and licencing information, please visit the New Jersey Division of Fish, Game and Wildlife website.