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Company, began construction of a cannery on the left bank opposite and a little above the salting station; it was finished in 1900. In 1903, the North Alaska Salmon
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District maintained 22 floating stations and had 492 drift net permit holders. Three-quarters of all personal use salmon came from the commercially caught fish.
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is situated at the mouth of the river. White bluff is situated on the river's north shore, just inside Cape
Chichagof at Bristol Bay. The major tributaries are Kejulik River, Shosky Creek, and King Salmon River. The
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The river has been known by other names and spellings: Ougagouk (1828); Ugaguk (obsolete except on
Government maps) or Igagik (Russian variations); also variously Agouyak, lgiagik. Egegak. Ugiagik.
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lakes, is the principal tributary to the Egegik from the north. Being 60 miles (97 km) in length, it enters about 7.5 miles (12.1 km) from the mouth of the Egegik.
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708:Categories
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347:Egegik Bay
303:U.S. state
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