Subsistence News-6/30/95

To   Subsistence 2

From:      Larry Roberts:R10F02A

Postmark:  Jun 30,95  7:25 AM          Delivered: Jun 30,95 10:00 AM

Status:    Previously read

Subject: Subsistence News-6/30/95

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Message:

*Customary trade in Alaska is defined differently under state and federal subsistence management.

*The state definition of “customary trade” (along with barter and sharing) is for “personal or family consumption”.

*Under the federal definition, only barter and sharing are required to be personal or for family consumption; “customary trade” is not limited to any particular purpose.

*The latter definition indicates that some forms of trade (e.g., fur trade, herring roe, eulachon, etc.) can be classified as a “subsistence use” even though they might involve money or commerce.

*ANILCA mandates that customary trade cannot result in the “establishment of significant commercial enterprises”, which indicate that at least the form of such trade must predate ANILCA (i.e., customary or established over a long period of time).