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There is an excellent trail system linking the series of 

 lakes from salt water up to the highest lake. The area is a 

 very popular area for bear hunting, trapping, sport fishing, 

 and subsistence sockeye fishing by residents of Kasaan. The 

 Forest Service considers the Karta drainage to be one of the 

 top two recreation areas on the south Tongass. 



Noyes-Lulu-Baker Islands 



The Tongass Land Management Plan rated the islands as 

 moderate to moderately high value for fish and estuarine 

 resources. The ADF&G rated the area as moderate for 

 wildlife and low for fisheries production. The islands are 

 in the midst of a major commercial fishing ground that 

 provides fishermen with over $16 million a year and are 

 important for the harvests of fish and wildlife for 

 residents of Craig and Klawock. These dramatic outer-coast 

 islands are also becoming increasingly popular with 

 tourists. 



The islands' anadromous fish streams support pink and chum 

 salmon. The two largest systems each produce 10,000-50,000 

 pinks, with one system also producing more than 6000 chum 

 salmon a year and the other system producing up to 6000 chum 

 salmon. Marine mcimmals are abundant along the coast, 

 including sea otters, sea lions, and humpback whales. The 

 islands also support deer and wolves. 



Residents of Craig and Klawock use the islands to harvest 

 salmon, other finfish, shellfish, seals, and deer. The 

 commercial purse seining fleet, along with the associated 

 fish buyers, packers and processors, depend on the safe 

 anchorages provided by these islands which could be 

 jeopardized by log storage in the limited areas of safe 

 anchorage. 



Nutkwa River 



The Tongass Land Management Plan rated the drainage as high 

 value for fish and estuarine resources. The ADF&G rated the 

 area as high value for fish and wildlife. The fishery 

 production makes the area extremely important to the 

 commercial salmon industry and the residents of Hydaburg. 



The Nutkwa system, with its large, shallow salt chuck, is an 

 exceptional producer of pink salmon, with a peak recorded 

 escapement of 215,000, and a major producer of sockeye, with 

 a peak escapement of 1400. It also produces chum and coho 

 salmon as well as rainbow, steelhead, and cutthroat trout 

 and Dolly Varden. The salt chuck is important habitat for 

 marine meimmals and waterfowl, including trumpeter swans. 



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