Postmark: Nov 10,94 4:03 PM Delivered: Nov 11,94 9:57 AM
Status: Previously read
Subject: Subsistence News-11/11/94
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*The Federal Subsistence Board (FSB) will meet in Anchorage on November 14, 1994, beginning at 8:30am at the Captain Cook Hotel.
*Agenda items for the FSB meeting include the review and discussion of customary and traditional use determinations for the Kenai Peninsula and the upper Tanana River region.
*Another item on the agenda is the “Designated Hunter” option. Debate centers on whether to use existing State of Alaska harvest tags, permits, and licences or shift to a federal harvest permit system. Both options would allow another qualified rural resident to hunt for you.
*This fall, Carol Jorgensen, Regional Coordinator for the southeast Federal Subsistence Advisory Council, was awarded a certificate of merit and cash award for her exemplory work related to the Federal Subsistence Management Program. Carol has been descibed as…”simply an outstanding performer, leader, and person.”
*The Native American Fish and Wildlife Society’s 13th annual National Conference will be held May 1-5, 1995, at the Anchorage Hilton Hotel. Theme for the conference: Native American Resource Management in the North: A discovery of choices, a process for change.
*Subsistence is expected to be a major topic of discussion.
Postmark: Jun 23,94 1:42 PM Delivered: Jun 24,94 10:01 AM
Status: Previously read
Subject: Subsistence News-6/23/94
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*Final rules for the 1994-95 Alaska Subsistence taking of fish and wildlife can be located within the June 3, 1994, Federal Register (Vol. 59, No.106). Rules apply between July 1-June 30.
*Federal Register notice, concerning the process and schedule, for Customary and Traditional Use determinations has been signed by Willie Hensley (FSB Chairperson). The notice is co-signed by the Regional Forester.
*Characteristics of a subsistence based economy:
community-wide, seasonal, exploitation of resources;
high participation in hunting and fishing activities;
substantial harvest of fish and wildlife for local use;
family & household processing and production of resources;
extensive, non-commercial, distribution and exchange of resources;
traditional land use and residency; and
a mixed economy of subsistence and commercial interests.
*Alaska subsistence harvests vary significantly by region. Rural residents in northwest and arctic Alaska harvest the most (610 pounds per capita), and southeast Alaska residents harvest the least (212 pounds per capita).
*At least 85% of rural southeast Alaska households harvest some subsistence resources.
Postmark: Mar 18,94 9:28 AM Delivered: Mar 18,94 10:00 AM
Status: Previously read
Subject: Subsistence News-3/18/94
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*Under ANILCA (Section 803) subsistence use means “the customary and traditional use by rural Alaska residents of wild, renewable resources for direct personal or family consumption as food, shelter, fuel, clothing, tools or transportation; for the making and selling of handicraft articles out of nonedible byproducts of fish and wildlife resources taken for personal or family consumption; for barter, or sharing or personal or family consumption; and for customary trade”.
*Customary and traditional use means a long established, consistent pattern of use, incorporating beliefs and customs which have been transmitted from generation to generation. This use plays an important role in the economy of the community.
*Rural means any community or area of Alaska determined by the Federal Subsistence Board (FSB) to qualify as such. Only residents of communities or areas that the FSB has determined to be rural are eligible for the subsistence priority.
*All Alaska is considered rural, “except” Adak, Valdez, the municipality of Anchorage, the Fairbanks North Star Borough, and, also, Homer, Juneau, Kenai, Ketchikan, Seward, Wasilla, and certain areas immediately surrounding these communities.
