Subsistence News-6/9/95

To   Subsistence 2

From:      Larry Roberts:R10F02A

Postmark:  Jun 09,95  7:30 AM          Delivered: Jun 09,95 10:05 AM

Status:    Previously read

Subject: Subsistence News-6/9/95

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*The Alaska Board of Game recently modified its regulations to conform to last month’s state Supreme Court ruling which overturned the residency preferences in their Tier II subsistence hunts.

*The Board, in a special teleconference meeting, unanimously deleted the regs giving points to hunters based on how close they live to the areas they want to hunt.

*Other changes include modification of two Tier II Kenai Peninsula goat hunts to registration hunts. Unlike the Tier II hunters, those in registration hunts do not have to provide information on their customary and traditional uses to qualify for the permits.

*The court ruling is a result of the lawsuit filed by the Kenai-based Kenaitze tribe. They challenged the non-subsistence zones established by the state, and a Superior Court judge ruled in their favor. However, the State Supreme Court recently reversed that ruling.

*The tribe maintained it was entitled to operate a communal setnet in the Kenai River and the state was not managing salmon stocks in the river according to the subsistence priority required by law.