by CoastView | Jun 15, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Biodiversity, Developments, Embayments, Hatcheries, Land Use, Natural History
Main Bay is an estuary on the Kenai Peninsula fed by a watershed of 3,795 acres (1,536 ha) mostly draining from an unnamed lake at an elevation of 205 feet (62 m) on the northern flank of Eshamy Peak in Prince William Sound, between Port Nellie Juan to the west and...
by CoastView | Apr 19, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Biodiversity, Communities, Embayments, Hatcheries, Land Use, Natural History
Port Armstrong is an embayment on the southeast coast of Baranof Island, which extends west-southwest for 1.6 miles (2.6 km) from Point Eliza on Chatham Strait, and the site of a historical whaling station and present-day salmon hatchery, about 59 miles (95 km)...
by CoastView | Apr 2, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Biodiversity, Developments, Embayments, Hatcheries, Islands, Natural History
Lake Bay is the site of a salmon hatchery on the southern coast of Esther Island in northwestern Prince William Sound, and the deglaciated fjord extends 1.5 miles (2.4 km) northwest from Wells Passage, about 63 miles (101 km) west-southwest of Valdez and 20 miles (32...
by CoastView | Feb 14, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Developments, Hatcheries, Kachemak, Natural History
Tutka Bay Lagoon is the site of a fish hatchery located about 4 miles (6.5 km) inside and on the southern shore of Tutka Bay in Kachemak Bay State Park, about 10 miles (16 km) east of Seldovia and 15 miles (24 km) south-southeast of Homer, Alaska. Kachemak Bay is...
by CoastView | Oct 22, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Hatcheries, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Whitman Creek starts from Blue Lake at an elevation of about 2,660 feet (811 m) on the south flank of Roy Jones Mountain on the southeast coast of Revillagigedo Island and flows generally southeast for 2.4 miles (4 km) to Whitman Lake, and then another 0.7 miles (1.1...
by CoastView | Jul 26, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Hatcheries, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Cannery Creek is the site of a salmon hatchery on the eastern shore of Unakwik Inlet in Prince William Sound and the Chugach National Forest, about 42 miles (68 km) northeast of Whittier and 41 miles (66 km) west-southwest of Valdez, Alaska. The local name is after a...
