ACCESS TO FISH AND GAME

I. What are the Issues

A. History

1. Subsistence Culture

2. Russian impact

B. Katie John Appeal

C. AFN’s Resolutions

D. Kenaitze Case

1. Urban

2. Rural

E. Dual Management

1. State – sustain yield based management

2. Federal – scientific management principles

F. Urban lack of understanding of subsistence lifestyle

II. What will happen if we do nothing?

A. Dual Management

1. State – Sustained Yield Management

2. Federal – Scientific Management Principles

B. Expensive

C. Confusing

D. Bigger Burden on the State

E. Continued Urban lack of understanding subsistence lifestyle

III. What would a positive resolution look like?

A. Management

1. Cooperative Management; or

a) State

b) Federal

c) Tribal

2. State Management

B. Educate all Alaskan Residents of Subsistence lifestyle

C. Statewide Agreed Upon Definition of Rural Preference

1. Federal definition in ANILCA and/or

2. State

a) Constitutional Amendment and/or

b) State statute

D. Maintenance of Subsistence Lifestyle

E. Implement Statewide Rural Preference

F. Optimum local input on decision making

1. Regional Advisory Councils

IV. What does it mean to Alaska?

A. Economic Benefits

B. Potentially enhanced fish and game population

C. Educated Alaska Residents

D. Reduced regional and racial tensions

Urban Rural Study Group

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