Marine Service Industry
Do you have a marine services business? Looking to expand or relocate?
Sitka is the largest boating community in Alaska and is seeking business proposals to develop the local marine services industry. Sawmill Cove Industrial Park is open for business, with waterfront and adjacent property reserved for development of marine industry development. View 2009 RFP - proposals still welcome!
Sitka also needs covered moorage space for 300+ local boats currently on a wait list for permanent moorage space. Another 800 transient pleasure boats visit Sitka each summer including high end yachts such as the Ice Bear, seen in the photo berthed next to a commercial fishing vessel. CLICK HERE to learn more.
Sitka's annual sac roe herring fishery.
During the Russian-American era in the early nineteenth century Sitka was the most developed industrial outpost on the West Coast of North America with an active shipyard. Dozens of ships, some over one hundred feet long, were built here. European and American ships plying the West Coast came to Sitka to get repairs done.
LEARN MORE about Sitka's maritime heritage.
