Answer:
The correct answer is D. Lumber production, fishing, whaling and fur trapping.
Explanation:
Farming was very hard at the time in the New England colonies, the soil was poor and unfertile, so farming was not a common acticity in general, on the other hand the colonist were very avid in fishing and whaling and mostly made their living out of these activities, the whale oil was a very important resource because it could be used in lamps, making this a very profitable activity, as i said before the land was not very suitable for farming, but it gave other resources like lumber that was also heavily exported to England due to a shortage of wood. in addition, hunting was also a very frecuent activity resulting in a good trade and market for furs, making fur traffic also a common and profitable activity.