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Seward Harbor is on the left as you enter the
city limits. It provides moorage for recreational, charter, and commercial
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A view of Seward Harbor in late August. You will be free to
walk the docks and check out the fascinating array of vessels. You may
see Steller sea lions and sea otters up close and personal, which come into
the dock area looking for easy meals of discards from the fish cleaning
stations. A few years ago, a big Steller leaped out of the water and bit
a fisherman on the butt as he strolled a Kodiak dock. So stay alert; even
the sea otters have been known to kill with cuteness. |
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Seward often is cloudy and wet, so come prepared for rain (reference
the Exit Glacier photo shot in August). But even gray weather imparts
its own brand of beauty, as the constantly shifting, low-hanging clouds
play across the nearby snow-capped coastal mountains.
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Crewmen of a salmon purse seine vessel mend their
net. Alaska salmon fishermen haul in 52 percent of the world's wild salmon
harvest, comprised of pink, chum, coho, king, and sockeye salmon. Last year,
Alaska salmon fishermen harvested 900 million pounds, the second largest
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The 2000 commercial salmon fishing season will
be finished in October, so you'll see plenty of boats tied up in the Seward
harbor. These guys are mending a seine net. Other fishing vessels you are
likely to see in Seward are gillnetters, crabbers, longliners, and trawlers. |
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View of the Seward harbor boardwalk. The main street by the harbor is lined with gift shops, charterboat
companies, restaurants, hotel, campground, and other tourist amenities,
a couple seafood processing plants, and plenty of free parking. By October,
things will be pretty quiet and some shops will be closed for the winter. The sign on the kiosk was created by Alaska Sea Grant. It describes the commercial fishing industry of Seward.
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