
Misty Fjords National Monument
National monument in Ketchikan Gateway Borough, AlaskaWikipedia
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Sep 16, 2026
Episode 185: Halibut is the Gateway Fish
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6:03Mark FaldmoHOST
So that's where you can get a lot of the good history of totem poles.
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6:07Mark FaldmoHOST
Although I will say my favorite thing to do there is to take a Misty Fjords flight scene tour where you take a float plane, fly up into the Misty Fjords.
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6:17Mark FaldmoHOST
You land on a lake up there.
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6:19Mark FaldmoHOST
It's a pretty fascinating thing to do.
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6:22Mark FaldmoHOST
I've done that several times.
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6:23Mark FaldmoHOST
So I really enjoy that Misty Fjords flight scene tour.
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6:27Mark FaldmoHOST
But if you are interested in totem poles, and this is the tour that I do most of the time when I take groups up there or that I recommend, there are three different areas you can see totem poles.
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6:39Mark FaldmoHOST
One is Totem Bright, which is my favorite.
#139 - Swimming Upstream: Ethical Salmon in an Era of Farmed Fish with Sam Pflaum of Ketchikan Sam's
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14:11Sam PflaumGUEST
Right? And so, like, fresh water conditions have so much more to do with what we do with, with salmon in the ocean than, than people realize.
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14:20Sam PflaumGUEST
You know, uh, there's, for example, there's two rivers behind, behind Ketchikan up in, in the Misty Fjords, and one of them has really big king salmon, and the other one has a lot of small king salmon.
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14:29Sam PflaumGUEST
The difference is that one river has big cobbles in the nesting areas, and one, one river has mostly silt in the nesting areas.
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14:36Sam PflaumGUEST
And so-