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Cross Sound lies at the northernmost entrance of Alaska’s Inside Passage, a
thousand-mile maze of rocky mountainous islands, interspersed with
hundreds of miles of deep glacier-carved saltwater fiords, bays, and
channels. The islands of southeast Alaska are drained by
thousands of small streams, while larger rivers drain the snow-covered
mountains of the mainland.
The cold clear waters of these streams support runs of Pacific
salmon. In the late summer and fall, these streams swarm with
spawning adult salmon. In the spring, the offspring of these
salmon migrate downstream to feed, first in the shallow protected
estuaries, and then in the open ocean.
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