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Nushagak Bay

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biomass is generally low with 16 macro invertebrate species encountered in a 2007 field study, including teleost fishes, isopods, amphipods, and crangon shrimps. During the summer 2007, Nushagak Bay was found to have a Shannon Diversity (H’) value of 1.54, ranking it below similar subarctic estuaries such as Ungava Bay, near Labrador (60°34’N, 67°35’W) and Lower Herring Bay in Price William Sound (60°30’N, 147°13’W) where the Shannon Diversity values are H’=2.11 and H’=2.5, respectively. This lower diversity of Nushagak Bay is most likely due to its low salinity, high turbidity, and silty sediments.
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Bristol Bay residents have historically valued the estuary resources for both subsistence gains and commercial profits. However, given the estuary's importance, there have been few comprehensive scientific studies conducted in the bay. Species diversity as measured through richness and total
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to Bristol Bay some 30 miles (48 km) southward. The bay is also fed by several additional rivers, including the
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is a large estuary covering over 100 km in southwest part of the
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Cannery worker making boxes at Clarks Point, Nushagak Bay in 1918
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The bay runs primarily north–south from the mouth of the
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Salting station of C.E. Whitney and Co., loading the
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barkentine
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U.S. state
Alaska
Bristol Bay
Bering Sea
Alaska Peninsula
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sockeye salmon

Pebble Mine
Koktuli River
Nushagak River
Nushagak River
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Igushik
Snake
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Pebble Mine environmental information
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