1 FEDERAL SUBSISTENCE BOARD 2 3 PUBLIC REGULATORY MEETING 4 5 VOLUME III 6 7 COAST INTERNATIONAL INN 8 ANCHORAGE, ALASKA 9 10 MAY 1, 2008 11 8:30 O'clock A.M
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1 FEDERAL SUBSISTENCE BOARD 2 3 PUBLIC REGULATORY MEETING 4 5 VOLUME III 6 7 COAST INTERNATIONAL INN 8 ANCHORAGE, ALASKA 9 10 MAY 1, 2008 11 8:30 o'clock a.m. 12 13 MEMBERS PRESENT: 14 15 Mike Fleagle, Chair 16 Thomas Melius, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 17 Thomas Lonnie, Bureau of Land Management 18 Marsha Blaszak, National Park Service 19 Denny Bschor, U.S. Forest Service 20 Niles Cesar, Bureau of Indian Affairs 21 22 Ralph Lohse - Southcentral RAC 23 Randy Alvarez - Bristol Bay RAC 24 Bertrand Adams - Southeast RAC 25 Sue Entsminger - Eastern Interior RAC 26 Patrick Holmes - Kodiak/Aleutians RAC 27 Victor Karmun - Northwest Arctic RAC 28 Jack Reakoff - Western Interior RAC 29 Greg Roczicka - Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta RAC 30 Myron Savetilik - Seward Peninsula RAC 31 32 33 Commissioner Denby Lloyd/Ken Taylor, State of Alaska 34 Representative 35 36 Keith Goltz, Solicitor's Office 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 Recorded and transcribed by: 45 46 Computer Matrix Court Reporters, LLC 47 700 West 2nd Avenue 48 Anchorage, AK 99501 49 907-243-0668 50 [email protected]/[email protected] 1 P R O C E E D I N G S 2 3 (Anchorage, Alaska - 5/1/2008) 4 5 (On record) 6 7 CHAIRMAN FLEAGLE: Good morning. It's 8 good to be back with people for our third day of the 9 Federal Subsistence Board, May 1st, Anchorage. I'd 10 like to welcome everybody. 11 12 Pete, you have some announcements. 13 14 MR. PROBASCO: Yes, Mr. Chair, I have a 15 couple of announcements. But I would probably like to 16 start out first, on behalf of the Board, I'll wait 17 until Rod's done here. Thank you, Rod. 18 19 We have a Board member that she hopes 20 today is her last day at a Board meeting, and I 21 understand tomorrow is going to be her last day at 22 work, is it? 23 24 MS. BLASZAK: Yes. 25 26 MR. PROBASCO: And, Marcia, is marking 27 the end of a 39 year career. 28 29 UNANIMOUS: Wow. 30 31 MR. PROBASCO: And I think we all want 32 to wish her the best as she goes on a new adventure in 33 her life. I understand that you're moving out to the 34 Valley in the future. 35 36 MS. BLASZAK: Yes. 37 38 MR. PROBASCO: And we look forward to 39 you coming out to the Valley, God's country, it's a 40 great place to live. 41 42 But Marcia your services here on the 43 Board have been greatly appreciated and you've brought 44 the knowledge and wisdom necessary from the Park 45 Service to help with our Subsistence Program, and we 46 greatly appreciate that and more importantly we really 47 appreciate your services to the state of Alaska and we 48 wish you the best. And the Board, as well as others 49 wanted to give you a little card and a gift in our 50 appreciation. 352 1 MS. BLASZAK: Thank you. 2 3 MR. PROBASCO: And we understand 4 there's going to be a much bigger party later but we 5 wanted to recognize you here at the Board meeting. 6 7 Marcia. 8 9 MS. BLASZAK: Thanks, very much. 10 11 (Applause) 12 13 MS. BLASZAK: I suppose you want me to 14 open this. 15 16 MR. PROBASCO: Yeah, we'd like you to 17 open it. 18 19 MS. BLASZAK: My favorite store. How 20 beautiful. This is exquisite you guys, thank you so 21 much. Can everybody see this, I'll put it out here. 22 Thank you so much. I really -- I really can't tell you 23 how honored I am to be here among all of you this week. 24 You know it was kind of a bitter-sweet way to spend my 25 last week working, but I also appreciate the importance 26 of the work that the Board does and the decisions that 27 are made and how it affects Alaskans. And because 28 we're choosing to stay in Alaska, I suspect you'll 29 continue to hear from me and maybe with a different 30 voice, probably a consistent voice but perhaps from a 31 different vantage voice. 32 33 But I really appreciate the recognition 34 and the opportunity to work and know all of you and 35 hope that we'll continue to have relationships in the 36 future because I'll be around, so thank you. 37 38 (Applause) 39 40 CHAIRMAN FLEAGLE: Thank you, Marcia. 41 Pete, additional introduction comments. 42 43 MR. PROBASCO: Ken. 44 45 CHAIRMAN FLEAGLE: Sure. Ken, you have 46 some opening statements today. 47 48 MR. TAYLOR: Yes, thank you, Mr. 49 Chairman. I think virtually everybody in this room 50 knows Terry Haynes. He's worked for the Federal 353 1 Subsistence Program and the Board of Game for many, 2 many years and, this, too, is his last day at the 3 Federal Subsistence Board, and I would like to 4 personally thank him for his years of service. Since 5 you've gone to now an alternate year cycle Terry's 6 indicated that he will probably be retiring sometime 7 before the next Board meeting here that deals with 8 wildlife proposals. So thank you, Terry, I'm sure that 9 your work with the RACs will be missed in the future 10 and you set a high standard for your replacement. 11 12 I would also like to introduce Nancy 13 Hendrickson. She's the young lady in the red shirt 14 back there. She's our new liaison to the Federal 15 Subsistence Board and she's currently in training. 16 She's coming up to speed very quickly and I hope you'll 17 get a chance to meet her and we look forward to working 18 with you Nancy. 19 20 Thank you, very much, Mr. Chairman. 21 22 CHAIRMAN FLEAGLE: Thank you, Ken. And 23 also appreciate your work Terry, and nice to meet you 24 Nancy. 25 26 Pete. 27 28 MR. PROBASCO: Thank you, Mr. Chair. 29 There are some written correspondence that Staff handed 30 out to the Board members this morning. 31 32 These are issues that we have, we, the 33 Office of Subsistence Management, have been contacted 34 on, and these individuals were unable to travel to 35 testify in person. These are issues that are not on 36 your agenda but they are gaining momentum so to speak 37 and I just wanted to draw your attention to these 38 issues. 39 40 We have from the Angoon Community 41 Association, from Matthew Fred, a letter, it's speaking 42 on the Chatham Straits Southeast purse seine fishery 43 and their concerns on the impacts that fishery may have 44 on their subsistence. 45 46 We also have a letter from the 47 Kootznahoo Incorporation, Peter, and I'm not going to 48 do very well on his last name, Narose and also speaking 49 on the Chatham Straits issue and the effects on 50 subsistence. 354 1 Victor's here, our Chairman from 2 Northwest, he has provided you with a slate of written 3 material dealing with transporters in his area and I'm 4 sure he will speak to that later. 5 6 And then finally since, at the request 7 of Greg Roczicka, we were speaking on Proposal 1 as it 8 relates to the predator policy. We actually had 9 responded, the Board, December 19th, 2006 to Gerald 10 Nicholia from the Eastern Interior, and it's a 11 reference material for you to address the very similar 12 issue on how predator management is dealt with on the 13 Park Service, BLM, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 14 and this will be a reference document that we will 15 utilize when we get into that discussion. 16 17 Mr. Chair, that's the written 18 information we have. 19 20 CHAIRMAN FLEAGLE: Thank you. I have 21 one more. 22 23 MR. PROBASCO: He's here to testify. 24 25 CHAIRMAN FLEAGLE: Okay. All right. 26 We'll move on then. Once, again, welcome, good morning 27 to everyone. 28 29 We start out with public comment period 30 on nonagenda items. Pete. 31 32 MR. PROBASCO: Mr. Chair. We do have a 33 request here and I'm not sure if Mr. Banks wants to 34 wait until the Board discusses the predator issue after 35 the proposals or would like to do it at this time. He 36 has submitted also a written document that is on each 37 of your desks, so, Mr. Banks, what is your preference? 38 39 MR. BANKS: I'd be willing to do it 40 now. 41 42 MR. PROBASCO: Okay. Mr. Tom Banks, 43 Defenders of Wildlife. 44 45 CHAIRMAN FLEAGLE: Good morning. 46 Please turn your microphone on and state your name for 47 the record and go ahead and give your testimony. 48 49 MR. BANKS: Good morning. You have 50 written testimony in front of you and with your 355 1 indulgence I'll go ahead and read from it for the 2 record. 3 4 Mr. Chairman. Members of the Federal 5 Subsistence Board. My name is Tom Banks. And I am the 6 Alaska representative for the Defenders of Wildlife.