Yakoun River


YAKOUN RIVER, the largest river on the QUEEN CHARLOTTE ISLANDS, flows north out of Yakoun Lk through the heart of Graham Island to Masset Inlet, where it empties through a large ESTUARY south of PORT CLEMENTS. A popular river with STEELHEAD fishers (see FISHING, SPORT), it is also an important SALMON spawning stream. A hatchery at Marie Lk (see FISH HATCHERIES raises salmon for the river. The watershed has been logged extensively, beginning with the massive operation during WWI to harvest...

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