Cordova’s Expanded Small Boat Harbor Benefits South-Central Alaska Fisheries, Tourism, Commerce
The two-year, nearly $40 million project to expand and renovate Cordova’s small boat harbor has created one of Alaska’s largest single-basin harbors with a capacity to accommodate 727 vessels.
The city of 2,500 people is home port for fleets fishing Prince William Sound to the west, and the Copper River Flats to the east. Historically, salmon, halibut, crab, herring, shrimp, Pacific cod, scallops, and clams were harvested from these two uniquely productive fishing grounds and the Gulf of Alaska beyond. Prior to the 1964...
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