Editing Sitka, Alaska (section)

===Port===
Sitka is the 6th largest port by value of seafood harvest in the United States.<ref name=SEDA/> International trade is relatively minor, with total exports and imports valued at $474,000 and $146,000, respectively, in 2005 by the [[American Association of Port Authorities]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://aapa.files.cms-plus.com/Statistics/2005%20US%20PORT%20RANKING%20BY%20CARGO%20VALUE.xls|title=Table of 2005 U.S. Port Rankings by Foreign Commerce Cargo Value: American Association of Port Authorities|website=cms-plus.com|access-date=November 26, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100407173407/http://aapa.files.cms-plus.com/Statistics/2005%20US%20PORT%20RANKING%20BY%20CARGO%20VALUE.xls|archive-date=April 7, 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref> The port has the largest harbor system in Alaska with 1,347 permanent slips.

During [[Russian America|Russian rule]], Sitka was a busy seaport on the west coast of North America,<ref name=Bunten>{{Cite journal |last=Bunten |first=Alexis Celeste |title=Sharing Culture or Selling Out?: Developing the commodified persona in the heritage industry |journal=American Ethnologist |volume=35 |issue=3 |page=382 |publisher=American Anthropological Association |year=2008 |issn=0094-0496 |doi=10.1111/j.1548-1425.2008.00041.x}}</ref> mentioned a number of times by [[Richard Henry Dana Jr.|Dana]] in his popular account of an 1834 sailing voyage ''[[Two Years Before the Mast]]''. After the transfer of Alaska to U.S. rule, the Pacific Coast Steamship Company began tourist cruises to Sitka in 1884. By 1890, Sitka was receiving 5,000 tourist passengers a year.<ref name="McClelland">{{cite speech |title=The Art of Innovation: The Effects of Trade and Tourism on Tlingit Dagger Production in the Nineteenth Century |first=McClelland |last=Ashley |event=Wooshteen Kana<u>x</u>tulaneegí Haa At Wuskóowu / Sharing Our Knowledge, A conference of Tlingit Tribes and Clans: Haa eetí ḵáa yís / For Those Who Come After Us |location=Sitka, Alaska |date=March 31, 2012 |url=http://ankn.uaf.edu/ClanConference2/course/view.php?id=4 |access-date=March 31, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130127023252/http://ankn.uaf.edu/ClanConference2/course/view.php?id=4 |archive-date=January 27, 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

Old Sitka Dock,<ref name="halibutpoint">{{cite web|title=Halibut Point Marine Services: Cruise Terminal; Boat Yard|url=http://www.halibutpointmarine.com/|access-date=September 13, 2017|quote=Old Sitka Dock located at Halibut Point is the docking location for the majority of the large cruise ships that visit Sitka.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170926182522/http://halibutpointmarine.com/|archive-date=September 26, 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> located at Halibut Point, one mile south of the [[Old Sitka Site|Old Sitka State Historical Park]], commemorating the 1800s Russian settlement, and six miles north of downtown Sitka, is a private deep water port offering moorage facilities.<ref name="freelibrary">{{cite web|title=Sitka's new dock is old Sitka Dock: private infrastructure for public good.|url=https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Sitka%27s+new+dock+is+old+Sitka+Dock%3A+private+infrastructure+for+public...-a0350574767|website=thefreelibrary.com|access-date=September 13, 2017|date=November 1, 2013|quote=McGraw [owner] designed his floating dock and named it the Old Sitka Dock in recognition of its proximity to the Old Sitka historical site.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170915070713/https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Sitka%27s+new+dock+is+old+Sitka+Dock%3A+private+infrastructure+for+public...-a0350574767|archive-date=September 15, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>  A 470-foot-long floating dock for vessels up to 1100 feet was constructed there by its owners in 2012 and was first used in 2013.<ref name="Kcaw2020-12-28">{{cite web|title=Sitka dock to get first regular visits in 2013|url=https://www.kcaw.org/2012/12/04/sitka-dock-to-see-first-regular-customers-in-2013/|website=kcaw.org|access-date=September 13, 2017|date=December 4, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170915113354/https://www.kcaw.org/2012/12/04/sitka-dock-to-see-first-regular-customers-in-2013/|archive-date=September 15, 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> In Spring 2016, Holland America Line agreed to dock its ships at the Old Sitka Dock.
<ref name="hal">{{cite web|title=Sitka cruises to bring passengers to shore|url=http://www.alaskapublic.org/2016/04/26/sitka-cruises-to-bring-passengers-to-shore/|website=Alaska public media|access-date=September 13, 2017|date=April 26, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170915024316/http://www.alaskapublic.org/2016/04/26/sitka-cruises-to-bring-passengers-to-shore/|archive-date=September 15, 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref>  Since then, the majority of the cruise ships calling on Sitka berth at the Old Sitka Dock, with the remainder anchoring offshore in Crescent Harbor and tendering their passengers to downtown Sitka. In the 2017 season, there were 136 cruise ship calls at Sitka with more than 150,000 passengers in total; of these fewer than 30,000 were tendered.<ref name="rfp">{{cite web|title=RFP for transit services between Old Sitka Dock and Harrigan Centennial Hall|url=http://cityofsitka.com/government/departments/publicworks/documents/RFPTransitServicesOSDtoHCH.pdf|website=cityofsitka.com|access-date=September 13, 2017|date=March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170915022912/http://cityofsitka.com/government/departments/publicworks/documents/RFPTransitServicesOSDtoHCH.pdf|archive-date=September 15, 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The [[United States Coast Guard]] plans to homeport one of its [[Sentinel-class cutter]]s in Sitka.<ref name="Kcaw2020-12-28" />