1 SEWARD PENINSULA FEDERAL SUBSISTENCE 2 REGIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL MEETING 3 4 PUBLIC MEETING 5 6 7 VOLUME II 8 9 Aurora Inn 10 Nome, Alaska 11 October 8, 2014 12 9:00 a.m. 13 14 Members Present: 15 16 Timothy Smith, Acting Chairman 17 Reggie Barr 18 Peter Buck 19 Tom Gray 20 Ted Katcheak 21 Scott Lockwood 22 Charles Saccheus 23 Elmer Seetot 24 25 26 27 28 Acting Regional Council Coordinator - Robert Larson 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 Recorded and transcribed by: 44 45 Computer Matrix Court Reporters, LLC 46 135 Christensen Drive, Suite 2 47 Anchorage, AK 99501 48 907-227-5312;
[email protected] 1 P R O C E E D I N G S 2 3 (Nome, Alaska - 10/8/2014) 4 5 (On record) 6 7 CHAIRMAN SMITH: Yeah. Dan, this is 8 Tim Smith. If you would like, could you take a few 9 minutes to clarify something that's been ongoing for -- 10 just about every meeting we talk about -- we're looking 11 -- what the committee is looking for, or what the 12 Council is looking for is a nexus between Federal 13 jurisdiction and the information needs that we have on 14 fish and wildlife resources. And we're always trying 15 to find the connection. 16 17 MR. SHARP: I understand. I think it 18 happens about every fisheries cycle, this question 19 comes up, and we sort of grapple for..... 20 21 CHAIRMAN SMITH: Yeah, you want to go 22 through and clarify? Maybe we can put this to rest 23 now, though, you know, we're going to -- you know, we 24 have a need for -- we have lots of information needs 25 here, and we're just trying -- and there's inadequate 26 funding for research.