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Fishermen's Terminal is a dock opened in 1914 and operated by the Port of Seattle as the home port for Seattle's commercial fishing fleet, and, since 2002, non-commercial pleasure craft. The Terminal is on Salmon Bay in the Interbay neighborhood, east of the Hiram M. Chittenden Locks and immediately west of the Ballard Bridge .
These aspects led to strikes by fishermen throughout the Seattle port, which were typically run by the Seattle Deep Sea Fishing Union members. However, crewmen as well as fishermen participated in this specific strike. The Deep Sea Fishing Union is one of the small number of United States unions that support crewmen as well as fishermen.
Pine Lake is a lake located in the city of Sammamish, Washington, about 20 miles (32 km) east of downtown Seattle. Surrounded by private homes and a city park, it is a popular recreation and fishing spot.
Fishermen's Terminal, which is a working marina for fishing vessels and recreational vessels, but is largely open to the general public; [120] it includes the Seattle Fishermen's Memorial. [ 121 ] həʔapus Village Park and Shoreline Habitat (formerly Terminal 107 Park), near the Duwamish Longhouse on the west shore of the Duwamish Waterway.
The F/V Northwestern, a western rigged boat, was constructed in 1977 at Marco Shipyards in Seattle, Washington for the sole purpose of fishing King and Tanner Crab off of the coast of Alaska. [1] It was christened F/V Northwestern on 1977 November 5 by Snefryd Hansen, the wife of then-owner and captain Sverre Hansen. [2]
Historically, Seattle's Central Waterfront continued farther south, with a similar character. Since the mid-1960s, the area to the south has been a container port. [5] Seattle's current pier numbering scheme dates from World War II; prior to that era, for example, the present Pier 55 was Pier 4 and Pier 57 was Pier 6. [6] [7]
It drains an area of the high Cascade Range in the watershed of Puget Sound north of Seattle. The river is a popular destination for fly fishing. It is a National Wild and Scenic River. [4] Its two forks rise in the Cascades in eastern Snohomish County, in the Glacier Peak Wilderness and join to form the mainstem Sauk River at Bedal Peak.
The Hiram M. Chittenden Locks, or Ballard Locks, is a complex of locks at the west end of Salmon Bay in Seattle, Washington's Lake Washington Ship Canal, between the neighborhoods of Ballard to the north and Magnolia to the south.