Subsistence News-3/3/95

To   Subsistence 2

From:      Larry Roberts:R10F02A

Postmark:  Mar 03,95 10:05 AM          Delivered: Mar 03,95 10:04 AM

Status:    Previously read

Subject: Subsistence News-3/3/95

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*Addressing a recent joint session of the Alaska State Legislature, Senator Ted Stevens stressed that if the state hopes to regain its right to manage fish and game on federal public lands-and not lose the authority to the federal government-then they had better reach a consensus on the issue of subsistence.

*The proposed moratorium on all new federal regulations could mean the cancellation of the 1995 subsistence hunting season.”Unless new regulations for the 1995 season are allowed to go through, there won’t be a season–and no legal meat on the table for tens of thousands of rural Alaskans who depend on the federal subsistence hunt to make it through the winter” (Anchorage Daily News).

*The Designated Hunter concept is moving through the federal interagency committee. The committee recommends a federal harvest permit. There are advantages and disadvantages with the system, but it is felt that the federal permitting will better serve the rural Alaska subsistence users.

*The southcentral Federal Regional Advisory Council (RAC) recently met in Anchorage. The RAC recommended a series of Customary & Traditional use determinations for the Kenai Penninsula. The Federal Subsistence Board (FSB) is expected to adopt the recommendations.