Subsistence News-9/8/95

To   Subsistence 2

From:      Larry Roberts

Postmark:  Sep 08,95  7:45 AM          Delivered: Sep 08,95  7:45 AM

Subject: Subsistence News-9/8/95

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Message:

*Under Section 119 of the Marine Mammal Protection Act, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) is responsible for the health of whales, porpoises, dolphins, seals, and sea lions.

*The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) is responsible for sea otters, polar bears, and walrus.

*The SE Alaska Federal Subsistence Regional Advisory Council is scheduled to meet in Craig, Alaska, Sept.28-30. Preliminary agenda items include proposals to change federal subsistence regs; customary and traditional use determinations; and a Tongass Land Management Plan revision update.

*The draft FY96 work plan for the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill outlines important subsistence restoration activities. Planned work includes restoration efforts dealing with clams, harbor seals, octopus, Pacific herring, pink salmon, sea otters, and sockeye salmon. Recommended FY96 expenditures for subsistence total $1,399,800.

*In SE Alaska, Native households are more likely to give and to receive resources obtained through their harvesting. They are also more likely to share the following characteristics: obtain at least 25% of their food from at least five different resource harvesting activities, and have incomes below $10,000. per capita.