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YKDELTA REGIONAL COUNCIL FEDERAL SUBSISTENCE MEETING 9/28/2018 YKDELTA REGIONAL COUNCIL FEDERAL SUBSISTENCE MEETING - Vol. 3 3 YUKON-KUSKOKWIM DELTA ALASKA FEDERAL SUBSISTENCE REGIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL MEETING PUBLIC MEETING VOLUME III Yupiit Piciryarait Cultural Center Bethel, Alaska September 28, 2018 9:00 a.m. MEMBERS PRESENT: Alissa Rogers, Chair Robert Aloysius John Andrew David Bill James Charles Raymond Oney Michael Peters Regional Council Coordinator, Eva Patton Recorded and transcribed by: Computer Matrix Court Reporters, LLC 135 Christensen Drive, Suite 2 Anchorage, AK 99501 907-243-0668/[email protected] Computer Matrix, LLC Phone: 907-243-0668 135 Christensen Dr., Ste. 2., Anch. AK 99501 Fax: 907-243-1473 Email: [email protected] YKDELTA REGIONAL COUNCIL FEDERAL SUBSISTENCE MEETING 9/28/2018 YKDELTA REGIONAL COUNCIL FEDERAL SUBSISTENCE MEETING - Vol. 3 3 Page 259 1 P R O C E E D I N G S 2 3 (Bethel, Alaska - 9/28/2018) 4 5 (On record) 6 7 MADAME CHAIR ROGERS: The time now is 8 9:00 o'clock and we'll go ahead and get started here. 9 We'll be starting with fisheries proposal on the Yukon 10 fisheries proposals FP19-05. Ms. Pippa Kenner. Oh, 11 let's see if there's updates. 12 13 MS. PATTON: Madame Chair and Council. 14 We have just a couple requests on the agenda. We were 15 running a little late due to the little rearrangement 16 yesterday. We do have a couple folks that were needing 17 to depart on the noon flight. We were wondering if we 18 might be able to provide an update on the Togiak Refuge 19 very quickly first thing this morning and then get into 20 the Federal subsistence fisheries proposals. 21 22 MADAME CHAIR ROGERS: Yes. It looks 23 like we're all nodding our head. 24 25 MS. PATTON: Okay, thank you. 26 27 MR. ANDREW: We need to suspend the 28 rules. 29 30 MADAME CHAIR ROGERS: Eva, do we need 31 to suspend the rules? 32 33 MS. PATTON: Madame Chair, the Council 34 could agree to rearrange the schedule at this time if 35 the Council wishes. 36 37 MADAME CHAIR ROGERS: So do I just say 38 that we suspend the rules? 39 40 MS. PATTON: Sure. We can suspend the 41 rules and allow a change in the agenda. That would be 42 fine. 43 44 MADAME CHAIR ROGERS: Thank you, Eva. 45 Let's go ahead and suspend the rules and change the 46 agenda around. We're going to have Togiak come up and 47 present and then we'll get back to our Yukon fisheries 48 proposals. 49 50 Computer Matrix, LLC Phone: 907-243-0668 135 Christensen Dr., Ste. 2., Anch. AK 99501 Fax: 907-243-1473 Email: [email protected] YKDELTA REGIONAL COUNCIL FEDERAL SUBSISTENCE MEETING 9/28/2018 YKDELTA REGIONAL COUNCIL FEDERAL SUBSISTENCE MEETING - Vol. 3 3 Page 260 1 MS. PATTON: Madame Chair and Council. 2 If we can also touch base on teleconference and see who 3 has joined us this morning so we know who we have 4 online. We have familiar faces here in the audience. 5 We were hoping that Lester Wilde, Sr. could join us 6 this morning. I did give him a call. We'll see if 7 he'll be able to join us by teleconference. 8 9 Okay. 10 11 Thank you. 12 13 MADAME CHAIR ROGERS: Folks, for those 14 on teleconference -- Eva, did you want roll call for 15 the teleconference or how did you want to proceed with 16 that? 17 18 MS. PATTON: Madame Chair and Council. 19 We can start out with introductions on teleconference 20 and then we'll get to roll call to address whether we 21 have quorum today. 22 23 Thank you. 24 25 MADAME CHAIR ROGERS: Okay, thank you, 26 Eva. For those of you on teleconference go ahead and 27 state your first name, last name and your 28 representation. 29 30 MR. PAPPAS: Good morning, Madame 31 Chair. George Pappas, Office of Subsistence 32 Management. 33 34 MR. DECOSSAS: Gary Decossas with the 35 Office of Subsistence Management. 36 37 MR. HARRIS: Good morning. Frank 38 Harris with the Office of Subsistence Management. 39 40 MR. BURCH: Good morning. This is Mark 41 Burch with the Department of Fish and Game. 42 43 MR. SMITH: Good morning. This is 44 Nicholas Smith with the Alaska Department of Fish and 45 Game. 46 47 MADAME CHAIR ROGERS: Hi. Who just 48 joined us? Your first name, last name and affiliation. 49 50 Computer Matrix, LLC Phone: 907-243-0668 135 Christensen Dr., Ste. 2., Anch. AK 99501 Fax: 907-243-1473 Email: [email protected] YKDELTA REGIONAL COUNCIL FEDERAL SUBSISTENCE MEETING 9/28/2018 YKDELTA REGIONAL COUNCIL FEDERAL SUBSISTENCE MEETING - Vol. 3 3 Page 261 1 MS. JALLEN: This is Deena Jallen with 2 the Alaska Department of Fish and Game in Anchorage. 3 4 MADAME CHAIR ROGERS: Thank you. Do we 5 have any public members attending online. 6 7 (No comments) 8 9 MADAME CHAIR ROGERS: Any tribal 10 representatives. 11 12 (No comments) 13 14 MADAME CHAIR ROGERS: Thank you very 15 much for those of you online. We'll go ahead and Mr. 16 Oney would you be able to do a roll call for us this 17 morning. 18 19 MR. ONEY: Yes. 20 21 MADAME CHAIR ROGERS: Thank you. 22 23 MR. ONEY: Thank you, Madame Chair. 24 James Charles. 25 26 MR. CHARLES: Here. 27 28 MR. ONEY: John Andrew. 29 30 MR. ANDREW: Here. 31 32 MR. ONEY: Michael Peters. 33 34 MADAME CHAIR ROGERS: He was here. 35 36 MR. ONEY: Yeah, he was here. I've 37 seen him. Alissa Rogers. 38 39 MADAME CHAIR ROGERS: Present. 40 41 MR. ONEY: Raymond Oney here. Robert 42 Aloysius. 43 44 MR. ALOYSIUS: Here. 45 46 MR. ONEY: David Bill, Sr. 47 48 MR. BILL: Here. 49 50 Computer Matrix, LLC Phone: 907-243-0668 135 Christensen Dr., Ste. 2., Anch. AK 99501 Fax: 907-243-1473 Email: [email protected] YKDELTA REGIONAL COUNCIL FEDERAL SUBSISTENCE MEETING 9/28/2018 YKDELTA REGIONAL COUNCIL FEDERAL SUBSISTENCE MEETING - Vol. 3 3 Page 262 1 MR. ONEY: We have a quorum. 2 3 MADAME CHAIR ROGERS: Thank you, Mr. 4 Oney. All right. We'll go ahead and get started with 5 Togiak Refuge. 6 7 Thank you. 8 9 MS. HENRY: Good morning, Madame Chair 10 and members of the Council. I'm Susanna Henry. I'm 11 the Refuge Manager at Togiak National Wildlife Refuge. 12 You all might remember that headquarters is over in 13 Dillingham, but we do manage part of Game Management 14 Unit 18, specifically the part with the Kanektok River 15 and the Arolik River, which I'm going to reference in a 16 minute. 17 18 We have a report and information 19 bulletin for you that's in the packet for the meeting. 20 It starts on Page 359. When we submitted that, we have 21 had a few changes to our staff. The part about the 22 staff is at the bottom of Page 364. I'm pleased to 23 announce that we have a new Refuge Information 24 Technician in the village of Togiak, a gentleman names 25 Thomas Dock. 26 27 He just started working in the middle 28 of August and Thomas has been doing a great job. He's 29 looking forward to going to AFN, Alaska Federation of 30 Natives, and participating at the Youth and Elders 31 Conference next month. We're going to have a booth 32 there for the Fish and Wildlife Service and our RITs 33 from around the state will be there and he's looking 34 forward to that. 35 36 By way of Refuge Information 37 Technicians though, we had John Mark, who is in the 38 village of Quinhagak retire. I will say that he did 39 sign a volunteer agreement and he's been doing a lot of 40 volunteer work. He's also going to go to the Youth and 41 Elders Conference. We'll be announcing a vacancy there 42 in Quinhagak for a Refuge Information Technician soon. 43 44 Today is the last day for our Deputy 45 Refuge Manager Allen Miller. He's been at the Togiak 46 Refuge for 22 years. He retires today and he and his 47 family are moving to Colorado. I'm sad about that. 48 While we've gained an RIT, we're really down on staff. 49 We hope to be able to hire more in the future, but we 50 Computer Matrix, LLC Phone: 907-243-0668 135 Christensen Dr., Ste. 2., Anch. AK 99501 Fax: 907-243-1473 Email: [email protected] YKDELTA REGIONAL COUNCIL FEDERAL SUBSISTENCE MEETING 9/28/2018 YKDELTA REGIONAL COUNCIL FEDERAL SUBSISTENCE MEETING - Vol. 3 3 Page 263 1 have been limited by budget. 2 3 What I wanted to bring up to the 4 attention of the Council is that over in the Kanektok 5 drainage and the Arolik drainage we had a Federal 6 closure on the Refuge lands for moose hunting that we 7 no longer feel is appropriate. The moose numbers have 8 gone up, both by observation and by survey, and we're 9 working with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. 10 11 We've made contact with the village, 12 with Mr. Ferdinand Cleveland who is with the council 13 there, and we're trying to do something to lift that 14 closure and have a more liberalized moose harvest 15 opportunity there.