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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*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).
Postmark: Jun 19,95 6:31 AM Delivered: Jun 23,95 9:59 AM
Status: Previously read
Subject: Subsistence News-6/23/95
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*The Federal Subsistence Board (FSB) is scheduled to meet in Anchorage thursday, July 13th at the Captain Cook Hotel. The meeting will convene at 9:00am. Purpose of the meeting is to readdress the FSB decision of 4/14/95 to adopt revised Customary and Traditional Use determinations for the Kenai Peninsula, and the proposed Kenai subsistence moose season.
*A WO Program Review of the Alaska Subsistence program is scheduled for August 7-8, 1995. The review is intended to elevate visibility of Alaska programs, including subsistence, with the WO staff. The meeting is set for Anchorage to allow for inter-agency participation.
*The Tlingit community of SE Alaska strongly objects to the commercial exploitation of devil’s club (Oplopanax horridum). They recognize the spiritual, medicinal, and holistic importance of the plant. They believe that tradtional cultural use and respect for the plant are in direct conflict with commercial exploitation. Traditional use dictates that the plant be harvested only for personal use on as needed basis.
Postmark: Jun 16,95 7:31 AM Delivered: Jun 16,95 10:22 AM
Status: Previously read
Subject: Subsistence News-6/16/95
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*Lane Taylor, of Alaska Herbal Products (Juneau), has withdrawn his application for special use permit to commercially collect plants from the Tongass NF. He had planned to harvest 13 species of plants from the Juneau-Haines areas.
*The Native community strongly objected to Taylor’s plan. They were worried the two person enterprise would escalate into a large scale harvest.
*One person summarized their objection to the harvest and use as “traditional knowledge regarding the proper harvesting and use of indigenous plants was cultural and intellectual property owned by the Tlingit and Haida people.” Others wanted to be able to exercise their present and future rights to subsistence on traditional resources.
*The Makah tribe of Washington has requested assistance from the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) in developing hunting guidelines for the taking of up to 5 gray whales each year. The whales are used for food and in ceremonies.
*Hubert Markishtum writes that…”Reestablishing a ceremonial and\ subsistence whale hunt would be a catalyst which would allow us to instill on our young people the traditional values which have held our people together over the centuries.”
