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Title: | MOBILE BAY & ALABAMA COASTAL WATERS FACT SHEET |
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| 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
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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