NORTHWEST ARCTIC SUBSISTENCE RAC MEETING 10/28/2019 NORTHWEST ARCTIC RAC MEETING 1 NORTHWEST ARCTIC FEDERAL SUBSISTENCE REGIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL PUBLIC MEETING VOLUME I Northwest Arctic Borough Assembly Room Kotzebue, Alaska October 28, 2019 9:00 a.m COUNCIL MEMBERS PRESENT: Michael Kramer, Chairman Barbara Atoruk Louie Commack Raymond Lee Enoch Mitchell Beverly Moto Tristen Pattee Replogle Swan Regional Council Coordinator, Zach Stevenson Recorded and transcribed by: Computer Matrix Court Reporters, LLC 135 Christensen Drive, Suite 2 Anchorage, AK 99501 907-227-5312; [email protected] Computer Matrix, LLC Phone: 907-243-0668 135 Christensen Dr., Ste. 2., Anch. AK 99501 Fax: 907-243-1473 NORTHWEST ARCTIC SUBSISTENCE RAC MEETING 10/28/2019 NORTHWEST ARCTIC RAC MEETING 1 Page 2 1 P R O C E E D I N G S 2 3 (Kotzebue, Alaska - 10/28/2019) 4 5 (On record) 6 7 CHAIRMAN KRAMER: Good morning, 8 everybody. Let's get this meeting started. Michael 9 Kramer, the Chairman. Do we have anybody that can do 10 the invocation. 11 12 (No comments) 13 14 CHAIRMAN KRAMER: If not, we'll do a 15 moment of silence. 16 17 (Moment of silence) 18 19 CHAIRMAN KRAMER: Okay. Good morning, 20 everybody. Let's call this meeting to order at 9:00 21 a.m. Madame Secretary, can we have roll call. 22 23 MS. ATORUK: Tristen Pattee. 24 25 MR. PATTEE: Here. 26 27 MS. ATORUK: Beverly Moto. 28 29 MS. MOTO: Here. 30 31 MS. ATORUK: Michael Kramer. 32 33 CHAIRMAN KRAMER: Here. 34 35 MS. ATORUK: Raymond Lee, Jr. 36 37 MR. LEE: Here. 38 39 MS. ATORUK: Reppi Swan. 40 41 MR. SWAN: Here. 42 43 MS. ATORUK: Louie Commack, Jr. 44 45 MR. COMMACK: Here. 46 47 MS. ATORUK: Enoch Mitchell. 48 49 MR. MITCHELL: Here. 50 Computer Matrix, LLC Phone: 907-243-0668 135 Christensen Dr., Ste. 2., Anch. AK 99501 Fax: 907-243-1473 NORTHWEST ARCTIC SUBSISTENCE RAC MEETING 10/28/2019 NORTHWEST ARCTIC RAC MEETING 1 Page 3 1 MS. ATORUK: Barbara Atoruk. You have 2 a quorum, sir. 3 4 CHAIRMAN KRAMER: Thank you. Good 5 morning, everybody and welcome to our fall subsistence 6 meeting. We're going to have a lot of issues to cover 7 today. If we can, we'll go to item 4, welcome and 8 introduction of guests. We'll start from the front row 9 over here. 10 11 MR. WUTTIG: Good morning. My name is 12 Klaus Wuttig. I'm with Fish and Game out of the 13 Fairbanks office. 14 15 MR. JOY: Phil Joy with Sport Fish 16 Division also out of the Fairbanks Office, here in 17 Brendan Scanlon's stead. 18 19 MS. MAAS: Lisa Maas, wildlife 20 biologist with the Office of Subsistence Management. 21 22 MS. HYER: Karen Hyer, fisheries 23 biologist. Good morning, Mr. Chairman and Council 24 members. I'm with Office of Subsistence Management. 25 26 MR. GREGG: Good morning. Charlie 27 Gregg, Northwest Arctic Borough. 28 29 MS. GEORGETTE: Good morning. My name 30 is Susan Georgette. I'm the Refuge Manager for Selawik 31 Wildlife Refuge with the Fish and Wildlife Service here 32 in Kotzebue. 33 34 MS. JOHRENDT: Good morning. I'm Tessa 35 Johrendt. I'm detailing at Selawik Refuge. 36 37 MS. SWEENEY: Good morning. Brittany 38 Sweeney with Selawik Wildlife Refuge here in Kotzebue. 39 40 MS. LUKIN: Uvlaalluataq. Maija Katak 41 Lukin, Western Arctic National Parklands. 42 43 MR. WESTLAKE: Good morning. Fritz 44 Westlake with Teck. 45 46 MS. GREENE-GUDMUNDSON: Uvlaalluataq. 47 Kally Greene-Gudmundson and I'm also here with Teck. 48 49 MS. VOORHEES: Good morning. Hannah 50 Computer Matrix, LLC Phone: 907-243-0668 135 Christensen Dr., Ste. 2., Anch. AK 99501 Fax: 907-243-1473 NORTHWEST ARCTIC SUBSISTENCE RAC MEETING 10/28/2019 NORTHWEST ARCTIC RAC MEETING 1 Page 4 1 Voorhees. I'm an anthropologist with the Office of 2 Subsistence Management. 3 4 MR. DOOLITTLE: Good morning. My name 5 is Tom Doolittle. I'm the Acting Assistant Regional 6 Director for the Federal Office of Subsistence 7 Management. It's great to be here today. 8 9 MR. CHEN: Aloha, Council members. My 10 name is Glenn Chen and I work for the Bureau of Indian 11 Affairs. 12 13 MR. WEISNER: Good morning. Carl 14 Weisner, Northwest Arctic Borough. 15 16 MR. HANSEN: Good morning. Alex 17 Hansen, here at Alaska Department of Fish and Game in 18 Kotzebue. 19 20 MR. STEVENSON: Uvlaalluataq. Atqa 21 Zach Stevenson. Good morning, my name is Zach 22 Stevenson with the Office of Subsistence Management. 23 I'm the Subsistence Council Coordinator for the 24 Northwest Arctic and Eastern Interior Regions. 25 26 Thank you. 27 28 MR. BJORK: Scott Bjork, Alaska 29 Wildlife Troopers, Kotzebue. 30 31 MR. PAPPAS: George Pappas, Office of 32 Subsistence Management, State Subsistence Liaison. 33 34 MR. RODGERS: Good morning. Justin 35 Rodgers with the Alaska Wildlife Troopers. 36 37 CHAIRMAN KRAMER: Is that everybody? 38 39 (No comments) 40 41 CHAIRMAN KRAMER: Can we have an 42 introduction of guests that are on the phone. 43 44 MR. LIND: Uvlaalluataq. Good morning, 45 Chair and Council members. This is Orville Lind, 46 Native Liaison with the Office of Subsistence 47 Management. 48 49 MR. PATTEE: Good morning. This is 50 Computer Matrix, LLC Phone: 907-243-0668 135 Christensen Dr., Ste. 2., Anch. AK 99501 Fax: 907-243-1473 NORTHWEST ARCTIC SUBSISTENCE RAC MEETING 10/28/2019 NORTHWEST ARCTIC RAC MEETING 1 Page 5 1 Tristen Pattee representing Ambler. 2 3 CHAIRMAN KRAMER: Is there anybody 4 else? 5 6 MR. JOLY: Yes, this is Kyle Joly with 7 the National Park Service, Gates of the Arctic National 8 Park and Preserve. 9 10 MR. REAM: Good morning. This is 11 Joshua Ream, Regional Subsistence Program Manager for 12 the National Park Service in Anchorage. 13 14 MS. OKADA: Good morning. This is 15 Marcy Okada, Subsistence Coordinator for Gates of the 16 Arctic National Park and Preserve. 17 18 CHAIRMAN KRAMER: Is there anybody 19 else? 20 21 (No comments) 22 23 CHAIRMAN KRAMER: Hearing none. We'll 24 go ahead and review and adopt the agenda. 25 26 Go ahead, Zach. 27 28 MR. STEVENSON: Thank you, Mr. Chair. 29 This is Zach Stevenson with the Office of Subsistence 30 Management. For those in the audience we have an 31 updated draft agenda, which is available on that 32 rectangular table by the front entrance there. It 33 looks like this. For those listening on the 34 teleconference, I'll briefly just mention some of the 35 minor changes or additions that were made to the draft 36 agenda. 37 38 On the agenda, first page at the bottom 39 under Item 10, New Business, Item (a) is the 2020 40 Fisheries Resource Monitoring Program featured on Page 41 141 of the meeting book. That will be delivered by the 42 Office of Subsistence Management Fisheries Division and 43 Anthropology Division. 44 45 Additionally, on Page 2 of the draft 46 agenda, we have an addition at the bottom under Item 47 11, agency reports. The Bureau of Land Management will 48 deliver a brief presentation on the Anchorage Field 49 Office update for the fall 2019. That will be 50 Computer Matrix, LLC Phone: 907-243-0668 135 Christensen Dr., Ste. 2., Anch. AK 99501 Fax: 907-243-1473 NORTHWEST ARCTIC SUBSISTENCE RAC MEETING 10/28/2019 NORTHWEST ARCTIC RAC MEETING 1 Page 6 1 delivered tomorrow under agency reports. 2 3 That concludes the additions and 4 updates to the draft agenda. 5 6 Thank you, Mr. Chair. 7 8 CHAIRMAN KRAMER: Give us a few minutes 9 to review and adopt the agenda. 10 11 MS. ATORUK: So moved. 12 13 MR. COMMACK: Second. 14 15 CHAIRMAN KRAMER: All those in favor. 16 17 MR. PATTEE: Mr. Chair. 18 19 CHAIRMAN KRAMER: Hang on. Go ahead. 20 21 MR. PATTEE: This is Tristen. If I 22 can, I would like to potentially add something to the 23 agenda for after lunchtime today. 24 25 CHAIRMAN KRAMER: Okay. We'll have to 26 stick you in at that time, Tristen. Is that good? 27 28 MR. PATTEE: Okay. 29 30 CHAIRMAN KRAMER: What was that 31 addition? 32 33 MR. PATTEE: The addition would be a 34 proven case of (indiscernible) affecting caribou at the 35 Red Dog Mine by one of our biologists at Red Dog. Her 36 name is Johanna Salatas. 37 38 CHAIRMAN KRAMER: Zach. 39 40 MR. STEVENSON: Through the Chair. 41 Tristen, for those on the teleconference who may not 42 have heard because we had a little bit of audio 43 disturbance what you just shared, you're requesting 44 that an addition be made to the draft agenda to allow 45 for a presentation from a Red Dog caribou biologist. 46 Am I understanding you correctly? 47 48 MR. PATTEE: Yes, you are. It's a 49 presentation that was sent to your email. 50 Computer Matrix, LLC Phone: 907-243-0668 135 Christensen Dr., Ste. 2., Anch. AK 99501 Fax: 907-243-1473 NORTHWEST ARCTIC SUBSISTENCE RAC MEETING 10/28/2019 NORTHWEST ARCTIC RAC MEETING 1 Page 7 1 MR. STEVENSON: Thank you. 2 3 MR. PATTEE: A PowerPoint. 4 5 MR. STEVENSON: Noted. Thank you. 6 7 CHAIRMAN KRAMER: Okay. Where were we. 8 We had a motion, we had a second. All those in favor 9 of adopting the agenda say aye.