To   Subsistence 2

From:      Larry Roberts:R10F02A

Postmark:  Aug 18,94 11:52 AM          Delivered: Aug 19,94 10:00 AM

Status:    Previously read

Subject: Subsistence News-8/19/94

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*The Federal Subsistence Board (FSB) met in Anchorage on August 17th. The Board took action on several “requests for reconsideration” for 1994-95 Federal Subsistence Management Regulations, which took effect on July 1, 1994. The Board voted not to rescind regulations allowing subsistence users to harvest deer from boats in GMU-4; and voted not to change the brown bear harvest limit, and permit and sealing requirements in GMU-5.

*The Katie John v. U.S. lawsuit is currently under appeal to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. It is anticipated that the Appeals Court will uphold the earlier District Court ruling, which mandates Federal assumption of subsistence fisheries management within Alaska’s navigable waters.

*A supplemental EIS to the “Subsistence Management for Federal Public Lands in Alaska”, and accompanying rule making, may be necessary should the courts mandate federal subsistence management of an additional 60 million acres of selected (but not conveyed) Native and State lands. This could extend federal subsistence management responsibility to approximately 260 million acres within the state of Alaska.

*Subsistence chum salmon fishing on the Yukon River has been closed.