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Marine Mammal Bulletin Vol U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Marine Mammal Bulletin Vol. 9, No. 1 Polar Bear, Sea Otter and Walrus Spring 2010 News for Harvest Taggers Tagger Profile When it comes to making In This Issue: the most of every day in Shishmaref, Davis Sockpick is Tagger Pofile . 2 at the top of the list. Goodbye to Larry Kritchen . 2 Davis loves to get out and enjoy. If snow is on the Tagger’s Notebook . 2 ground he is out on his Polaris. If the inlet is ice free, ANSOCC: The New Sea Otter he is out in a boat he most Co-management Committee . 2 likely made himself. He really enjoys hunting and subsisting Bilateral Polar Bear Committee from the bounty of marine Meets for the First Time . 3 mammals, ducks, caribou and musk oxen. He is also quite Polar Bear Tagging Continues skilled at bringing home the in the Chukchi Sea . 3 occasional wolverine or wolf New Walrus from the nearby hills. Program Leader . 4 Davis has been tagging polar Walrus Listing bears for the State and then Progress Report . 4 the USFWS since the 1980s and walrus for the USFWS Walrus Population since 1997. Estimate Released . 5 He is a firm believer in Russians Meet with the communication of North Slope Villages . 6-7 local knowledge about the health and availability of Harvest Numbers . 8 subsistence animals. He participates in information exchange between hunters, communities and agencies such as the USFWS and the The mission of the U.S. State of Alaska. Davis also Fish and Wildlife Service keeps excellent records about the use and importance of is working with others these animals to the local to conserve, protect, and community. enhance fish, wildlife, plants, and their habitats Thank you Davis for helping to ensure that the Shishmaref for the continuing benefit subsistence way of life of the American people. continues for countless future generations! Brad Benter / USFWS USFWS / Benter Brad Davis Sockpick at this year’s Fur Rondy. People News ANSOCC: The New Sea Otter Farewell Old Friend! By: John Trent Co-management Committee By Doug Burn At the age of 81, The U.S. Fish and Wildlife that the new sea otter committee long-time Service joined four Alaska will actively work on pressing Cordova Native Organizations to create co-management issues. “These a new Alaska Native Sea Otter include implementing a recovery sea otter Co-management Committee in plan for the threatened southwest tagger Alaska. The four Alaska Native Alaska population of sea otters Larry organizations participating in and addressing competition for Kritchen ANSOCC are the Aleut Marine shellfish by both people and sea departed Mammal Commission, Cook otters in southeastern Alaska.” he this life on Inlet Marine Mammal Council, said. February Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska Co-management is sometimes Brad Benter/USFWS Brad 16, 2010. and the Sitka Marine Mammal called “shared decision making.” Mr. Kritchen was a “plank Commission. The remaining It is authorized, in this case, owner,” a founding member, regions where sea otters live have under Section 119 of the Marine of the MTRP when it began in been invited and are welcome to Mammals Protection Act. Once join ANSOCC in the future. The ANSOCC is up and running as 1989. He and his wife Kathleen service is looking forward to re- a co-management committee, may actually have tagged more establishing ties with sea otter annual cooperative agreements subsistence-harvested sea otters subsistence hunters and working will be put in place between the for FWS than anyone else in collaboratively on sea otter co- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Alaska. Larry Kritchen was a management issues. and Alaska Native Organizations Cordova resident for nearly 60 for the conservation and co- years, a very fine fur trapper Douglas Burn the senior sea management of the subsistence in his own right and an overall otter biologist for USFWS says uses of sea otters. great Alaskan. We miss him already! The MTRP sea otter tagging tradition is now continued in Cordova by Joe Kompkoff. Tagger’s Notebook Davis ©R. Some Tips to Remember If you do not tag many animals, certificates that you send in or Village taggers should not tag mail in your completed white give us a call at 1-800-363-5148. beach-found ivory or bones for tagging certificate immediately non-Natives. If someone asks you after you tag. This helps Brad and Stuff wears out or occasionally to do this, call John or Brad and John keep up-to-date records for gets lost. Do you need a new we will make arrangements to tag your area. It also helps us pay you measuring tape, drill bits or those items at the nearest U.S, sooner! perhaps a drill? Give us a call. Fish and Wildlife Service office. Always protect your tags and If you do a lot of tagging for us, The MTRP harvest information tagging books by storing them in a mail in your completed white tag that you provide is critically safe place. book certificates at least once a important for the management month. of polar bears, walruses and sea Stop by for coffee! If you happen otters in Alaska. It is also used to to be in Anchorage, give John Do you need more prepaid mail document and protect subsistence (786 3815) or Brad (786 3980) a envelopes? We are glad to send hunting needs. This means that call. We are always glad to see and them to you. Enclose a note the work you do for us is very catch up with our taggers. with your latest batch of white important and much appreciated! 2 Marine Mammal Bulletin - Spring 2010 Polar Bear News Polar Bear Tagging Continues in the Chukchi Sea By Karyn Rode For a third spring season After the 2010 capture biologists from the U.S. Fish and season ends, data Wildlife Service and the U.S. analysis begins. As the Geological Survey are capturing results become available, and releasing polar bears in the biologists will share Chukchi Sea. The work is being and discuss them with done from the Red Dog Mine Port participating nearby and Kotzebue between March 15 communities as well and May 1, 2010. as the Alaska Nanuuq Commission and the new USFWS The purpose of this work is to U.S.-Russia Scientific This 1,260 pound male has a head and describe the movement patterns, Working Group. Polar neck shaped like a traffic cone, so a satellite distribution, habitat use, condition, bear biologists have collar will not stay on his neck. The big bear health and feeding ecology of worked closely with provided measurements and samples before he polar bears in the Chukchi Sea. In these organizations to recovered and went his way. 2008 and 2009 biologists captured explain the study and to 79 bears altogether. Now in 2010, develop “No Fly Zones” intended unsustainable levels of human- 14 female and no male bears are to avoid disturbing subsistence caused deaths from combined wearing satellite collars that hunters out on the ice. illegal killing in Russia and provide locations every two days. subsistence harvest in Alaska, Measurements and biological Polar bears in the Chukchi Sea sea ice loss due to climate samples are collected from every face a number of conservation change; and future petroleum bear before it is released. challenges including potentially exploration. New Bilateral Polar Bear Commission Begins Harvest Review By Karyn Rode The new U.S-Russia Bilateral The two American members of the aboriginal people in Russia and Polar Bear Commission met for Commission are Charlie Johnson, Amirkhan Amirhanov from the the first time in Moscow Russia Executive Director of the Alaska Ministry of Natural Resources on September 9, 2009. The Nanuuq Commission and Geoff and Environment. purpose of the commission is to, Haskett, Regional Director “Coordinate measures for the of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife The four-person Bilateral conservation and study of the Service in Alaska. There are also Commission then appointed Alaska-Chukotkan population of two Russian members: Sergey a larger Scientific Working polar bears.” Kavriy representing Chukotkan Group. The top priority for this working group is to determine how many polar bears can be safely harvested from the Alaska- Chukotkan polar bear population shared by Russia and the United States. The Scientific Working Group held its first meeting in Anchorage in March 2010. Harvest recommendations for the Alaska- Chukotkan polar bears will then First Bilateral Polar Bear Commission meeting at Moscow. Standing in the front be discussed by the Bilateral row center and wearing ties, are three of the four Commission members. They are Commission when it meets (L to R) Geoff Haskett, Amirkhan Amirhanov and Sergey Kavriy. Illness again this-coming June, also in prevented Charlie Johnson of Nome from attending. Anchorage. Marine Mammal Bulletin - Spring 2010 3 Walrus News New Walrus Program Leader Dr. Jim MacCracken is the new After a 20 year absence, Jim and management. He has worked Walrus Program Leader in his family are glad to be back in for state and federal agencies, the Office of Marine Mammal Alaska. Jim’s wife, Maureen, has universities, and private Management. relatives from the Bethel area corporations. (grandmother) and her father still lives in his “I remember one of my homestead cabin along professors at Colorado State the Tanana River across University saying that one of the from Fairbanks. They had five keys to a good life was having previously lived in Palmer, a wide range of experiences, both Eagle River, Fairbanks, professionally and personally”, and Cordova.
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