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1 Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta Alaska Federal Subsistence 1 YUKON-KUSKOKWIM DELTA ALASKA FEDERAL SUBSISTENCE 2 REGIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL MEETING 3 4 PUBLIC MEETING 5 6 VOLUME II 7 8 9 AVCP Regional Housing Authority Building 10 Conference Room 11 Bethel, Alaska 12 October 13, 2016 13 9:00 a.m. 14 15 16 17 MEMBERS PRESENT: 18 19 Lester Wilde, Chairman 20 Robert Aloysius 21 John Andrew 22 David Bill 23 William Brown 24 James Charles 25 Annie Cleveland 26 Dorothy Johnson 27 Raymond Oney 28 Michael Peters 29 Dale Smith 30 Anthony Ulak 31 32 33 34 Regional Council Coordinator, Eva Patton 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 Recorded and transcribed by: 42 43 Computer Matrix Court Reporters, LLC 44 135 Christensen Drive, Suite 2 45 Anchorage, AK 99501 46 907-243-0668/[email protected] 1 P R O C E E D I N G S 2 3 (Bethel, Alaska - 10/13/2016) 4 5 (On record) 6 7 CHAIRMAN WILDE: Call the meeting to 8 order. Are there any people from the public who would 9 like to make comments on any agenda items, or any other 10 items that may come to mind. 11 12 (No comments) 13 14 CHAIRMAN WILDE: In that case we will 15 continue on down with our agenda. 16 17 Is anyone on teleconference. 18 19 MS. WESSEL: Yes, Mr. Chair. This is 20 Maria Wessel with Alaska Department of Fish and Game. 21 22 CHAIRMAN WILDE: Welcome, Maria. 23 Anyone else. 24 25 (No comments) 26 27 CHAIRMAN WILDE: If not, we will 28 continue on with our agenda. The first item this 29 morning was the Kuskokwim area proposals, and the 30 Kuskokwim River fisheries season summary. 31 32 MR. STAHLNECKER: Good morning. Thank 33 you, Mr. Chair, members of the committee -- or the 34 Council. My name is Ken Stahlnecker; I'm the refuge 35 manager for Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge. 36 37 I have with me this morning Ray Born, 38 deputy refuge manager for Yukon Delta. Ray served as 39 the in-season fisheries manager this year through the 40 2016 salmon season, so I have him up here to answer any 41 of the difficult questions. 42 43 Basically what I intend to do is give 44 you kind of a chronological summary of the actions that 45 were taken throughout the course of the 2016 Chinook 46 salmon fishery this past year. 47 48 So based on -- oh, you can find some of 49 the information that I'll be reporting starting on Page 50 153 in the booklet. 149 1 So basically based on lower than 2 average pre-season Chinook salmon run forecasts, the 3 Federal in-season manager, excuse me, in consultation 4 with the Kuskokwim Inter-Tribal Fisheries Commission 5 and the Alaska Division of Fish and Game, established 6 an escapement objective of 100,000 Chinook, and a 7 harvest objective of 40,000 Chinook for the Kuskokwim 8 River within Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge. 9 10 MR. BORN: Do you have a question, Mr. 11 Chair. 12 13 CHAIRMAN WILDE: Pardon? No, I didn't 14 have any question. I was just wondering what was going 15 on over here. Sorry about that. 16 17 MR. BORN: Oh, I see. 18 19 MR. STAHLNECKER: No problem. So the 20 decision was made this year to use gear type 21 restrictions and season openings and closings as the 22 methods to manage the harvest as opposed to issuing 23 permits as was done during the 2015 season. 24 25 The first special action was issued 26 June 1st when the Federal in-season manager closed 27 Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge waters to the 28 harvest of Chinook and chum salmon by all users except 29 residents of the Kuskokwim River drainage and the 30 coastal villages that were identified in the Section 31 .804 subsistence user prioritization analysis. 32 33 On June 3rd, two days later, Refuge 34 waters were closed to the harvest of Chinook and chum 35 salmon by Federally-qualified users. That action 36 recognized that fishing openings, closings, and methods 37 for Federally-qualified subsistence users would be 38 announced by subsequent special action after 39 consultation and coordination with the Kuskokwim River 40 Inter-Tribal Fisheries Commission and the Alaska 41 Department of Fish and Game. At this time a series of 42 weekly in-season meetings were held between Fish and 43 Wildlife Service, Kuskokwim River Inter-Tribal 44 Fisheries Commission, and the Alaska Department of Fish 45 and Game using what we call an objective-based 46 stakeholder involved decisionmaking process as a 47 framework for our weekly decisionmaking. As the season 48 progressed, harvest data that were collected by ONC 49 were incorporated into the decisionmaking process, 50 which proved to be invaluable in helping us make these 150 1 weekly decisions. 2 3 On June 12th, the first season opener 4 was a 12-hour opener. The opportunity was provided for 5 Chinook and chum harvest for Federally-qualified 6 subsistence users with gear types including set and 7 drift gillnets with six-inch mesh or less, not 8 exceeding 45 meshes deep, and not exceeding 300-foot 9 length, from the Refuge boundary at the Kuskokwim mouth 10 to the Johnson River, and upstream of the Johnson River 11 within the Refuge was limited to 150-foot long. 12 13 On June 16th a second opening, this one 14 was a 24-hour opener, was provided for Federally- 15 qualified subsistence users. 16 17 And then based on input from the 18 Kuskokwim River Inter-Tribal Fisheries Commission and 19 the public, on June 21st the section of the Federal 20 public waters of the main stem and the salmon 21 tributaries of the Kuskokwim River from a line 22 downstream of Kalskag, across the river, up to the 23 boundary of the Refuge was open until further notice to 24 the harvest of chum and Chinook salmon. And at the 25 same time, June 21st, a 72-hour opener was made 26 available form what we call the Kalskag line downriver 27 to the mouth of the Kuskokwim. 28 29 On June 29th a second 72-hour opener, 30 harvest opportunity was provided for Chinook and chum 31 salmon by Federally-qualified users. 32 33 And on July 7th the Federal manager 34 rescinded all previously issued special actions, which 35 included opening the drainage to all Federally- 36 qualified users and all non-Federally-qualified 37 subsistence users and uses. 38 39 A couple of highlights from the season 40 that I wanted to point out. One, this year there 41 appeared to be a high degree of harvest satisfaction. 42 Recognizing that harvest levels were nowhere near 43 historic levels, there seemed to be a high degree of 44 satisfaction amongst the users. 45 46 Second, there was extremely high 47 regulatory compliance this year, which made life 48 easier. 49 50 Three, we celebrated the signing of the 151 1 memorandum of understanding between the Kuskokwim River 2 Inter-Tribal Fisheries Commission and the Fish and 3 Wildlife Service, and implementation of the first year 4 of that historic relationship, which I think proved to 5 be very effective in the entire decisionmaking process. 6 7 And, four, continued implementation of 8 the objective-based stakeholder involved decisionmaking 9 process, using that as the basis for making our joint 10 fisheries decisions for the Kuskokwim River certainly 11 it was a highlight, and I think provided a good basis 12 for all of the parties that were involved. 13 14 We would like to encourage continued 15 support for funding of the Kuskokwim River drainage 16 fish weirs in future years. These weirs provided 17 invaluable information to evaluate the success of 18 salmon management and to support research and refining 19 the understanding of fisheries factors influencing 20 salmon productivity. So they've proved valuable 21 somewhat throughout the season, but particularly post- 22 season and pre-season in terms of helping us make 23 decisions. 24 25 That's the end of my report. Thank 26 you, Mr. Chair. 27 28 CHAIRMAN WILDE: Are there any 29 questions on the Kuskokwim fisheries summary. Are 30 there any questions for the summary on the Kuskokwim. 31 32 (No comments) 33 34 CHAIRMAN WILDE: There being none, you 35 must have done a good job. Thank you. 36 37 (Laughter) 38 39 MS. PATTON: Mr. Chair and Council. 40 LaMont Albertson is here and has served in the capacity 41 of working with the Inter-Tribal Fish Commission in the 42 summertime. Mike Williams had anticipated to call in. 43 He may no be able to make it to call in for this 44 meeting, but if the Council was interested in a brief 45 overview of how the in-season worked with the Inter- 46 Tribal Fish Commission, now would be an opportunity for 47 that as well. 48 49 CHAIRMAN WILDE: Okay. Yeah, we were 50 going to go on down to our proposals, the Kuskokwim 152 1 Proposal FP17-05. 2 3 MR. ALOYSIUS: Lester. 4 5 CHAIRMAN WILDE: Yes, sir. Go ahead. 6 7 MR. ONEY: Yeah. I would like to hear 8 Mr. Albertson's report also for the..... 9 10 CHAIRMAN WILDE: Okay. We can have 11 that after this proposal. 12 13 MR. ONEY: Thank you. 14 15 CHAIRMAN WILDE: If that's okay. 16 17 MR. DECOSSAS: (In Yup'ik) 18 19 (Laughter) 20 21 CHAIRMAN WILDE: Was that in Chinese? 22 23 MR.
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