Douglas Channel

Water type: Bay
Connection to the ocean: Pacific Ocean
Continent: North America
Climate: Temperate
Country: Canada

Largest tributaries

Mugiliformes - Mullets

Perciformes - Perches

Moroniformes - Temperate basses

Carangiformes - Jacks

Lamniformes - Mackerel sharks

Carcharhiniformes - Ground sharks

Orectolobiformes - Carpet shark

Chimaeriformes - Chimaeras

Spariformes - Breams and porgies

Scombriformes - Mackerels

Myliobatiformes - Stingrays

Tetraodontiformes - Puffers and filefishes

Scorpaeniformes - Mail-cheeked fishes

Lampriformes - Lamprids

Squaliformes - Sleeper and dogfish sharks

Acipenseriformes - Sturgeons and Paddlefish

Myxiniformes - Hagfishes

Clupeiformes - Herrings

Gadiformes - Cods

Acanthuriformes - Surgeonfishes

Echinorhiniformes - Bramble sharks

Notacanthiformes - Spiny eels

Saccopharyngiformes - Swallowers and Gulpers

Alepocephaliformes - Slickheads and tubeshoulders

Polymixiiformes - Beardfishes

Beryciformes - Sawbellies

Ophidiiformes - Cusk-eels

Acropomatiformes - Oceanic basses

Centrarchiformes - Basses and sunfishes

Gobiiformes - Gobies

Pleuronectiformes - Flatfishes

Hexanchiformes - Six-gill sharks

Trachiniformes - Weeverfishes

Batrachoidiformes - Toadfishes

Douglas Channel is one of the principal inlets of the British Columbia Coast. Its official length from the head of Kitimat Arm, where the aluminum smelter town of Kitimat to Wright Sound, on the Inside Passage ferry route, is 90 km (56 mi). The actual length of the fjord\’s waterway includes waters between there and the open waters of the Hecate Strait outside the coastal archipelago, comprising another 60 km (37 mi) for 140 km (87 mi)in total.