ANR-919 MOBILE BAY & ALABAMA COASTAL WATERS
ANR-919, Reprinted Sept 1996.
Richard Wallace, Extension Marine
Specialist, Associate Professor, Fisheries
and Allied Aquacultures, Auburn University
| Mobile Bay & Alabama Coastal
Waters |
 Mobile Bay
Dimensions 31
miles x 10.8 miles x 10 feet
Area 413 square
miles
Shoreline 84
miles
Watershed Local,
600 square miles (south of I-10)
Total, 43,630 square miles (sixth largest in
the United States)
Freshwater Inflow
Average, 460,000 gallons per second (fourth largest in the United
States)
Low, 60,000 gallons per second
High, 3,700,000 gallons per second
Tidal Range Average,
1.3 feet
Minimum, less than 0.1 foot Maximum, 2.6 feet
Tidal Marsh 5
square miles
Mobile Delta
Dimensions 30
miles x 9.6 miles
Area 289 square
miles
Open Water 32
square miles
Tidal Marsh 16
square miles
Mississippi Sound
Dimensions 16
miles x 7.1 miles x 11.7 feet
Area 113 square
miles
Watershed Local,
100 square miles
Tidal Marsh 17
square miles
Perdido Bay
Dimensions 17
miles x 1.3 miles x 8 feet
Area 22 square
miles
Watershed 1,868
square miles
Freshwater Inflow
Average, 14,000 gallons per second
Wolf Bay
Dimensions 4
miles x 1.3 miles x 9 feet
Area 5.2 square
miles
Weeks Bay
Dimensions 25
miles x 1.1 miles x 4.8 feet
Area 2.7 square
miles
Watershed 192
square miles
Freshwater Inflow
Average, 2,400 gallons per second
Some Alabama Coastal Totals
Open Water 616
square miles
Shoreline 433
miles
Gulf Beach 47
miles
Tidal Marsh 44
square miles
Submerged Aquatic Vegetation 4.3 square miles
Population (1992 estimate)
Baldwin County: 106,349
Mobile County: 389,234
Total 495,583
Shipping
Vessels per Year: 1,200
Tonnage: 40 million tons
Fisheries Landings From Alabama Waters
Blue Crabs, 2.5 to 3.5 million pounds
Oysters, 0.8 to 1.2 million pounds
Mullet, Flounder, Menhaden, and White Trout,
2.5 to 3.5 million pounds
Shrimp (inside waters only), 0.9 to 1.4 million
pounds
Total Fisheries Landings
Shrimp, 13 to 15 million pounds
Other, 8 to 9 million pounds
Auburn University
Marine Extension And Research Center
4170 Commanders Drive, Mobile,
AL 36615
334-438-5690
Cooperating Agencies
- Alabama Cooperative Extension System
- Alabama Sea Grant Extension Program
- Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station
- Auburn University College of Agriculture
- Department of Fisheries and Allied
Aquacultures
This work is partly a result of research sponsored
by the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium and NOAA, Office
of Sea Grant, Department of Commerce, under Grant No. NA16RG0155-04
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