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A man dip netting on the Copper River, undated photo by John Nathan Cobb (died 1930) The Copper River is approximately 290 miles (470 km) long. [ 10 ] It drops an average of about 12 feet per mile (2.3 m/km), and drains more than 24,000 square miles (62,000 km 2 )—an area the size of West Virginia.
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Kenai Lake (Dena'ina: Sqilan Bena) is a large, "zig-zag" shaped lake [2] on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. The lake forms the headwaters of the Kenai River , [ 3 ] and is itself a destination for fishing and other outdoor activity.
Kenai is located at (60.558738, −151.229616), [1] on the west side of the Kenai Peninsula near the outlet of the Kenai River to the Cook Inlet of the Pacific According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 35.5 square miles (92 km 2 ), of which, 29.9 square miles (77 km 2 ) of it is land and 5.6 square miles (15 km ...
The turquoise water of Skilak Lake and the Kenai River delta, as seen from the air. Skilak Lake (Dena'ina: Q'es Dudilen Bena) is a large lake on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. The lake is part of the Kenai River system but also contains glacial runoff, being fed by meltwater from Skilak Glacier. The water is exceptionally clear with a mostly ...
The Kasilof River (/ k ə ˈ s iː l ɒ f / kə-SEE-lof) or Ggasilatnu in the Dena'ina language is a river on the western Kenai Peninsula in southern Alaska. The name is an anglicization of Reka Kasilova, the name given to the river by early Russian settlers in the area. [1] It begins at Tustumena Lake and flows northwest to Cook Inlet near ...
Because hand-netting is not physically destructive to the fish, hand nets are often used for tag and release, or to retrieve aquarium fish. There are popular contemporary dip net sockeye salmon fisheries in Chitina, Kenai River and Kasilof River, typically lasting two to three weeks, and is regarded as a subsistence fishery for Alaskan ...
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