To   Subsistence 2

From:      Larry Roberts:R10F02A

Postmark:  Dec 15,94  8:20 AM          Delivered: Dec 16,94 10:00 AM

Status:    Previously read

Subject: Subsistence News-12/16/94

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Message:

*Proposal booklets for the 1995-96 Federal Subsistence season and bag limit regs are currently at the printers and should be delivered to Alaska federal, state, and local offices this week. Five of the proposals deal with southeast Alaska: proxy deer hunting; Yakutat proxy moose hunt; Prince of Wales area doe hunt; and a Chichagof Island marten trapping proposal.

*Keith Goltz, DOI Solicitor, has reviewed the FS draft subsistence philosophy which reflects a broader interpretation of Customary and Traditional (C&T) use eligibility for rural residents. He feels the FS position closely follows the intent of ANILCA Title VIII.

*Goltz appears to believe that C&T is not meant to limit subsistence among subsistence users, or even between communities as the State of Alaska has done in the past, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposes at present.

*Presently, the FS position on C&T centers on previous FSB determinations for “rural”, and that these rural communities would have some level of C&T use associated with such a determination (Tier 1). Annual season and bag limit regs allow the FSB to allocate resources to rural communities. Therefore, the ANILCA 804 process would not apply until a shortage among subsistence users (Tier II).