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Welcome Chitina Dipnet Lawsuit - Press
Release (Click to read complaint) The Chitina Dipnetters Association and the Alaska Outdoor Council's sister organization, the Alaska Fish & Wildlife Conservation Fund, on January 9, 2009 filed a complaint with the Fairbanks Superior Court challenging the Alaska Board of Fisheries (BOF) recent decision to reject "subsistence" classification for the Chitina dipnet fishery. The complaint charges that the BOF classification of the Chitina dipnet fishery as a "personal use" fishery ignores the customary and traditional (C&T) use of salmon stocks by dipnetters in the Chitina subdistrict of the Copper River. This C&T use is documented dating back to the 1800s and convinced the 1999 BOF to designate the Chitina dipnet fishery as a subsistence fishery.
The success of many of AOC’s long term goals such as continued employment of qualified fish and game staff, predator-prey management, well regulated public access to public lands and resources, management of salmon stocks on a sustained yield basis, and enforcement of fish and game regulations all depend on support from our legislators in the legislative process, especially the budget process. AOC staff and board members have had a productive year in 2008 representing fishers, hunters, trappers and members who access Alaska’s outdoors. Numerous agenda topics from past AOC Annual Meetings have been addressed by both State and Federal courts, the State Legislature, or the Boards of Fisheries and Game. The new Obama administration will have a profound effect on all aspects of federal land management. Many topics are still unresolved and may come before state and federal courts and agencies this year. Topics of discussion and items that may need AOC Delegate action;
"Up for Grabs"- Hunting, trapping, fishing, and motorized access to public lands in Alaska are all up for grabs in the current political arena. “Up for grabs” means whoever expends the greatest energy, money, or ingenuity and sticks with it wins. Regulations propagated by Alaska’s administrative staff,
department heads, and appointed Boards have a great influence on whether you
are going to have any fish or game to harvest and where, plus how you will
be allowed to go about harvesting your wildfood source. Federal rules which
apply to 60% of the land in the state have been limiting hunting, trapping,
and fishing opportunities on federal lands through their regulatory
processes for the last two decades. Motorized access on federal lands, plus
lands yet to be transferred to the State or Native Corporations, have seen
major restrictive revisions to open motorized access during that same time
span.
2009 Delegation Certification form - Click here to download printable form in pdf format.
"Salmon: Public stocks that never lose their value to Alaskans"- Attached under Executive Director report Winter 2009. While the value of
salmon on commercial markets may fluctuate, the value of salmon as a wild
food source to Alaskans - although unrecorded - continues to grow.
In-season harvest of salmon by individuals is limited to a small fraction
of the total statewide harvest by a multitude of regulations affecting
various classifications of users - subsistence, sport, and personal use.
These restrictions imposed by the Board of Fisheries and a general lack
of access to salmon-bearing rivers gives a false value of what salmon is
really worth to a majority of Alaskans.
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