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The Inside Passage is heavily travelled by cruise ships, freighters, tugs with tows, fishing craft, pleasure craft, and ships of the Alaska Marine Highway, BC Ferries, and Washington State Ferries systems. Coast Guard vessels of both Canada and the United States patrol and transit in the Passage. The term "Inside Passage" is also often used to ...
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) is a department within the government of Alaska.ADF&G's mission is to protect, maintain, and improve the fish, game, and aquatic plant resources of the state, and manage their use and development in the best interest of the economy and the well-being of the people of the state, consistent with the sustained yield principle. [1]
The island is 135 miles (217 km) long, 65 miles (105 km) wide and has an area of 2,577 sq mi (6,670 km 2), about one-tenth the size of Ireland and slightly larger than the state of Delaware. Approximately 6,000 people live on the island. Craig is the largest community; founded as a saltery in the early 20th century, it has a population of 1,500.
FIPS code. 02-17740 [10] GNIS feature ID. 1421260 [3] 2419374 [11] Website. www.CraigAK.com. Craig (Tlingit: Sháan Séet) is a [12] city in the Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area in the Unorganized Borough [A] in the U.S. state of Alaska. The population was 1,036 at the 2020 census, [13] down from 1,201 in 2010.
It is the largest lake in Alaska, 7th largest lake in the United States, and twenty-fourth in North America. Covering about 2,600 km 2 (1,000 sq mi), Iliamna Lake is 77 miles (124 km) long and up to 22 miles (35 km) wide, with a maximum depth of 988 feet (301 m). Through the Kvichak River, its waters drain into Bristol Bay.
Map of the United States with Alaska highlighted. Alaska is a state of the United States in the northwest extremity of the North American continent.According to the 2020 United States Census, Alaska is the 3rd least populous state with 733,391 inhabitants [1] but is the largest by land area spanning 570,640.95 square miles (1,477,953.3 km 2). [2]
Southeast Alaska, often abbreviated to southeast or southeastern, [ 1 ] and sometimes called the Alaska (n) panhandle, is the southeastern portion of the U.S. state of Alaska, bordered to the east and north by the northern half of the Canadian province of British Columbia (and a small part of Yukon). The majority of southeast Alaska is situated ...
Fishing. Alaskan halibut often weigh over 100 pounds (45 kg). Specimens under 20 pounds (9.1 kg) are often thrown back when caught. With a land area of 586,412 square miles (1,518,800 km 2), not counting the Aleutian islands, Alaska is one-fifth the size of lower 48 states, and as Ken Schultz [4] notes in his chapter on Alaska [5] "Alaska is a ...