The Alaska Federation of Natives board will seek full approvalof the measure at this week’s annual convention in Anchorage.
Light streams through holes in a smokehouse as king and chum salmon dry in June 2019 at Russian Mission along the Yukon River.
The resolution was sponsored by the AFN board. It was submitted by the Association of Village Council Presidents and combined with similar resolutions from the AFN board. The Association of Village Council Presidents is based in Bethel and represents 56 tribal governments in a Southwest Alaska region, where chum and king salmon stocks have crashed, hurting a vital resource for dozens of villages.
The Alaska Federation of Natives, representing 160,000 Native people statewide, believes the protection is endangered by the state’s arguments in, the case before the federal courts involving subsistence fishing on the Kuskokwim. Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor said on Monday that the state “vehemently supports subsistence hunting and fishing rights for Alaskans and will continue to do so,” according to an email from his office.
The resolution says “the State of Alaska now attempts to rewrite longstanding law and erase the Katie John decisions.”
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