Bears, Salmon, and Eagles at Herring Cove, Ketchikan, Alaska
June 2016: Herring Cove, Ketchikan, Alaska
When staying in Ketchikan, Alaska in June 2016, we visited Herring Cove every day. Each time we observed Black Bears, Bald Eagles, and people fishing for King Salmon.
The video stars
- Black Bears
- Bald Eagles (all ages)
- King Salmon
- People fishing
Supporting cast:
- Steller's Jay
- Violet-green Swallow
- Song Sparrow
- Slug
- Domestic cat
Herring Cove, located eight miles south of Ketchikan at the south end of town, is recognized by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game as the most productive King Salmon fishing grounds in the state. The extraordinary nature of this King run at Herring Cove attracts an abundance of bears, seals and eagles.
Each spring 700,000 King Salmon smolt leave the Herring Cove estuary for the open ocean. These young salmon spend the next five to seven years circumnavigating the Gulf of Alaska growing strong and more powerful. The surviving Kings returning to Herring Cove can achieve weights of up to seventy pounds.
Fishing for Kings at Herring Cove is best from June 15th through July 15th, as this is the traditional height of the King Salmon run.
Herring Cove has a healthy black bear population due to the Whitman Lake Fish Hatchery that sits on the same cove. Black bears frequent this area during the salmon spawning season (mid-June through early September) although spottings are better an hour before & after low tide and after July.
Tour companies bring visitors from the big cruise ships or tourists come by bus, taxi cab, & do-it-yourself rental cars to see bears and Bald Eagles. Consequently the are gets very congested during the summer months and local residents feel overwhelmed by the onslaught of visitors.
In 2014 the Ketchikan Borough Assembly established rules for tour operators in Herring Cove in an attempt to tame the mess of thousands of people and dozens of vehicles that visit the area each day during the summer for wildlife viewing.
The rules are: No stopping or parking vehicles on the bridge. No walking in the driving lanes. People are allowed to walk and stand on the narrow shoulder on each side of the bridge. Tour operators need to designate where they’re going to park in a commercial or industrial parking area. And they can’t drive down Power House Road and park at the end. The state Department of Transportation also lowered the speed limit on the bridge from 45 to 25 miles per hour.
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Setting out from Ketchikan you will drive to a remote lake approximately 30 minutes from Ketchikan. Here you will be given information and put on your life jackets before boarding your motorized rigid hull inflatable Seahawk and setting off on a 30 minute exciting cruise along the coast,
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