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Marine Mammal Bulletin Vol U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Marine Mammal Bulletin Vol. 11, No. 1 Polar Bear, Sea Otter and Walrus Fall 2012 News for Harvest Taggers In This Issue: Tagger Profile: Matrona Mazonna, Wales Tagger Pofile . Cover New Tagger Payment System . 2 Tagger Comings and Goings . 2 You Can Tag the Tip! . .3 First Gambell and Savoonga Marine Mammal Advisory Committee Meeting. 4 Climate Change and Walrus Mgmt. Workshop Held in Barrow. 4-5 Walrus Skin and Population Study Expands Next Summer. 5 2012 Walrus Harvest Monitoring Completed. 5 Critical Habitat for Sea Otters. .6 USFWS Trent/ John In the footsteps of her father Toby Anungazuk, Metrona Mazonna of Wales has Sea Otters in Cordova not an UME. .6 been harvest tagging walruses and polar bears for thirty years! Fall Time Polar Bear Safety. .7 “I started in 1982, when my Dad asked me to do it,” said Metrona whose Inupiaq name is ‘Kiyoutuk.’ Polar Bear Conservation. .7 Fall Coastal Surveys. .7 “I had already been watching him do it for a long time both for Alaska Dept. Fish and Game and U.S. Fish and Wildlife” Comings and Goings. 8-9 Keeping track of the marine mammal harvest in Wales has thus Special Report. 9 become a family tradition for Metrona who also helps her sister working at the school. “It’s good to work for you at the Fish and Your Tagging Neighbors. .10-11 Wildlife Service,” she adds, “and to provide this service for the Harvest Numbers. .12 community. “ Over the last winter Wales harvested two polar bears and two walruses in the spring. Spring ugruk (bearded seal) hunting was not so good, “only two,” she said. The mission of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Metrona was born in Nome to Toby Anungazuk and Martha Sereadlook, both from Wales. On August 14, 1995 Metrona married is working with others Albert Mazonna. Daughter Molly is now 17 and son Ken has three to conserve, protect, and kids of his own. enhance fish, wildlife, Among her hobbies, she likes to crochet and to pick greens and plants, and their habitats berries in the summer months. for the continuing benefit of the American people. Thank you for doing such a good job tagging the marine mammal harvest at Wales, Metrona! Tagger News New Tagger Payment System Cash That Check! Tagger Comings and Goings It’s important for you to cash any Here is a partial list of those who check you get from us at USFWS have recently joined our band of soon after you receive it. The marine mammal taggers as well reason is that it becomes void, as those who have moved on. We that is no good, 60 days after it is have about 150 marine mammal written. Then we have to cancel taggers working in the Marking the old one and issue a new one, a Tagging and Reporting Program. hassle for us. To those just joining we say “Welcome” and to those leaving, So the next time you get a $5.00 “Thank you for your years of check from us for tagging one service to your community.” walrus tusk, don’t just stick it in your tagging box until you get This is not a complete list of all For more than six months we have more of them. Hop on down to the polar bear, Pacific walrus and sea been paying harvest monitors and store and buy a treat for yourself otter taggers working for the MTRP taggers by check directly or one of the grand kids! MTRP but you can call 1-800-362- from the Anchorage marine 5148 to get one. mammals office. “Did I see you at the Fair?” Barrow: FWS liaison Ernest You still have to send us your Nageak is now a tagger as well as payment vouchers from the Billy Adams in NSB Wildlife. villages but they no longer need to go to Denver or to San Francisco Cordova: Jim Smith is a new sea where checks were mailed to you otter tagger there. under the old payment system. Craig has two new taggers With this system there is good working with the Craig Tribal news and bad news. The good Association: Daniel Edenshaw and news is that you the harvest Jessi Dubray. tagger should be paid more quickly. The bad news is that we Hooper Bay: Raphael Murran has still depend on the U.S. mail to turned in his tagging pliers after get the vouchers from you to us many years of faithful service but and the checks from us to you. Albert Simon and John Mann have Weather is always a factor with recently joined to help track the mail delivery and sometimes there marine mammal harvest in that is a holiday or administrative Trent/USFWS John community. glitch that slows things down a Ketchikan artist and marine mammal day or two. tagger Christy Ruby models some of her Hydaburg: Charles Peele has products at the 2012 Alaska State Fair. joined our team. Also under the new system we can Business was good, Christy said. no longer make direct deposits Juneau: John Moller is now into your banking account if you tagging sea otters out of Juneau. happen to have one. We have to mail a check to you. Nuiqsut: Paul Pausanna joined long-time tagger Carl Brower. Brad Benter and Lucy Frerich are the check writers in our office, Point Hope: Amos J. Lane joined so don’t forget to be nice to them Elijah Lane and Eunice Lane when you call in! Point Lay: James Tazruk is no We really enjoy working with longer a tagger but Danny Pikok you in all the villages and deeply Ruby Christy Jr. and Eugene Neakok are still One of the many products Christy makes tagging there. appreciate the great work you are from marine mammals. doing. Keep on tagging! Wainwright: Adds Shawn Oktollik. 2 Marine Mammal Bulletin - Fall 2012 Tagger News Continued The only other way to tag a tusk You Can Tag the Tip! stuck in the skull is to drill two There is a quick and easy way to intersecting holes where the tusk tag a walrus tusk that is still stuck comes out of the skull. You then in the skull—drill a small hole at have to bend the tag wire through the very tip of the tusk and put the the two holes. This method is tag in there. slower and takes more practice. It is important to ask the tusk owner first before you do this. Many carvers do not mind tip Trent/USFWS John Be careful when the bit comes out the tagging because they can later other side. fill in the drill hole with a small amount of cement and ivory dust. Also, use the smallest drill bit in your tagging kit. John Trent/USFWS John A tusk tagged using intersecting holes at the base. It is always better to get ivory tagged right away. Get the word out to all walrus hunters and John Trent/USFWS John beach found ivory owners that Now run the tag through the tip and they can tag their ivory before cinch up the wire. they get the tusks out of the skull. If later on, the owner wants to The real advantage for taggers put a tag in a different spot it John Trent/USFWS John is that they don’t have to wait is as simple as filling out a new Start by getting the bit to catch the ivory for the tusk to be soaked, boiled certificare with the new tag and a using one of the smallest bits in your or chopped out of the skull. And note that says retag. We will go kit. Once the bit catches, drill straight hunters/finders do not have to go ahead a pay you again for each through about 1/8 inch from the end. back for tagging at a later date. retag. Brad Benter/USFWS Brad Gambell whaling boat and bear hides. Marine Mammal Bulletin - Fall 2012 3 Walrus News First Gambell and Savoonga Marine Mammal Advisory Committee Meeting By Jim MacCraken Fog and plane routing problems Many important issues were bring back enough of each walrus challenged but did not defeat the discussed including the need for to meet the USFWS wasteful first Marine Mammal Advisory a consistent process to deal with take guidelines, and (2) they Committee meeting held at trip limit violations, LE presence can indirectly limit the overall Gambell on Aug. 2nd. in the communities and reporting harvest depending on weather, ice to the IRA Councils, the fate of conditions, walrus distribution, All in all the meeting was highly confiscated ivory, the need to gas prices, community needs, etc. successful. Everyone expressed develop community outreach Compliance with the trip limits by a genuine desire to work together programs, the development of an hunters has exceeded 90% in 2010- on some very tough issues. IRA certification for ivory buyers, 2012. Although this is huge step in the the relationship between the self-regulation of the walrus hunt trip limits and Marine Mammal To help administer and enforce by both communities, there is Protection Act and Endangered the trip limits and support still much to be done which will Species Act programs, and the the actions of the MMACs the require dedicated funding and the workings of the MTRP program in Gambell IRA Council applied for continued efforts of all involved. both communities. and was awarded a Tribal Wildlife Grant totaling $200,000 from the In 2010 both Village IRA Councils USFWS in 2011.
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