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Most of the fishing in southern end of Whidbey Island takes place on the western side, in Possession Sound, Mutiny Bay, or Double Bluff. Saratoga Passage was named by Charles Wilkes , during the Wilkes Expedition of 1838–1842, for the Saratoga , the flagship of Thomas MacDonough during the Battle of Lake Champlain of the War of 1812 .
Chetlo Harbor Packing Company, Chetlo Harbor, Washington (operated from 1912 to 1915, canning 10,000 cases of Salmon) Gulf of Georgia Cannery, Steveston, British Columbia (re-opened in 1994 as a fishing and canning museum) Kake Cannery, Alaska; Kukak Cannery Archeological Historic District, Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska
The Puget Sound region is a coastal area of the Pacific Northwest in the U.S. state of Washington, including Puget Sound, the Puget Sound lowlands, and the surrounding region roughly west of the Cascade Range and east of the Olympic Mountains. It is characterized by a complex array of saltwater bays, islands, and peninsulas carved out by ...
U.S. Coast Survey nautical chart of Puget Sound, Washington Territory, 1867. Puget Sound has been home to many Indigenous peoples, such as the Lushootseed-speaking peoples, as well as the Twana, Chimakum, and Klallam, for millennia. The earliest known presence of Indigenous inhabitants in the Puget Sound region is between 14,000 BCE to 6,000 BCE.
Oregon Coast ESU: Puget Sound/Strait of Georgia ESU: Southern Oregon/Northern California ESU: Threatened (1997), (2005) [15] Threatened (2011) Southwest Washington ESU: Sockeye salmon Oncorhynchus nerka; DPS/ESU Name Initial/Revised status Current status Boundary Map [1] Baker River ESU: Lake Pleasant ESU: Lake Wenatchee ESU: Okanogan River ESU ...
During the salmon treaty negotiations in early 1994, Canada concluded that the United States was not responsive to Canada's concerns. Accordingly, on June 15, 1994, Canada imposed a transit fee on all US commercial fishing boats using the Canadian Inside Passage. This fee was eventually lifted through bilateral negotiations.
The Samish River supports a large variety of fish and is home to one of Washington's larger fall King Salmon runs. The Samish River has runs of five Salmon and three trout species including: Spring/Winter Steelhead, Summer Sockeye, [2] Fall Chinook/Chum/Coho, and year-round runs of Cutthroat, and Dolly Varden. Also documented are Pink Salmon ...
A pre-Mercator nautical chart of 1571, from Portuguese cartographer Fernão Vaz Dourado (c. 1520 – c. 1580). It belongs to the so-called plane chart model, where observed latitudes and magnetic directions are plotted directly into the plane, with a constant scale, as if the Earth's surface were a flat plane (Portuguese National Archives of ...