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You might have
received the recent notice from the Alaska
Department of Fish and Game that reads:
Title 5. Fish and Game
Chapter 77. Personal Use Fishery
Article 1. Statewide Provisions
5 AAC 77.001(f) is repealed and readopted to
read:
(F) In this chapter “personal use fishing”
has the meaning given in AS 16.05.940.
16.05.940 (25) reads as follows:
“personal use fishing” means the taking,
fishing for, or possession of finfish,
shellfish, or other fishery resources, by
Alaska residents for personal use and not
for sale or barter, with gill or dip net,
seine, fish wheel, long line, or other means
defined by the Board of Fisheries.
The old definition was as follows:
5 AAC 77.001 (f) In this chapter, “personal
use fishing” means the taking, attempting to
take or possession of finfish, shellfish or
aquatic plants by an individual for
consumption as food or use as bait, by that
individual or his immediate family.
At the 2011 Board of Fisheries meeting for
Upper Cook Inlet, the issue arose for which
definition was to be utilized by law
enforcement. The Board decided to use the
more expansive definition in 16.05.940 (25),
and not limit the definition of personal use
to the individual or immediate family.
If you remember correctly, there was an
attempt by some to besmirch any such type of
sharing of the harvest bounty from personal
use fishing – so this small readjustment in
the regulations by the Board allows us to
“legally” break bread and share salmon with
each other. Yea - we can now share with each
other and anyone else salmon harvested in
the personal use fisheries. It is no longer
considered a violation of personal use
fishing regulations to break out a jar of
smoked salmon and share it with your friends
and non-immediate family members. My
apologies for last year bringing an
unauthorized jar of smoke salmon to share
with you and everyone else while dipnetting.
Looking forward to this year when we can do
it legally.
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UPDATE
03/06/2011: |
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I am pleased to announce that we
survived this three year cycle at the BOF. There will be no
changes to the PU fishery until we come back up in cycle
three years from now. SCADA got through the proposal to
shorten the trigger at Fish Creek, from 70,000 fish
escapement to 50,000. That means if the run will reach
50,000, the Dipnet Fishery will open 5 to seven days sooner
then it would have at 70,000. An extra week of dipnetting
will be a good thing.
I would like to thank all members
who wrote in or who showed up to testify. I read every one
of those letters submitted. I would also like to thank the
person that took an e-mail of mine and cut and pasted it to
be passed around. There must have been 50 copies of that
signed by individuals and faxed to board support, telling
them to leave our fish alone.
Our next project will be helping
with the Kasilof fence install. That should take place come
spring but will be letting you know by e-mail when it gets
close.
On another note, I have been lax on
asking for yearly dues so for those of you that can't
remember the last time you paid, please do so. Fighting for
your right to put fish in the freezer takes time and money.
Try the application above and if you can't print it out, go
to
www.alaskadipnetting.com. and download one from there.
Some of that money will be used for help feeding the
volunteers that get involved with the Kasilof
fencing project. Some of it will also be used for a beach
clean-up day on the Kenai/Kasilof. Those plans are in the
works but not yet completed.
Again, thanks folks and for those of
you that have called up and thanked me for battling the
cutbacks attempted this year, it has been a pleasure. SCADA
has helped out over 80,000 Alaskans this year and we all
should be grateful.
Tight
lines/Nets........ Your Town Crier, Ken
Federico, Chair, SCADA 715-8363
UPDATE ALERT 02/26/10:
Ladies
and gentlemen
I
am please to say that
a diverse group of
Commercial, Sport/personal
use, Advisory committees and
enviromental groups have
come together at SCADA's
urging, to help with the
habitat at the Kasilof. It
also deals
with dumpster/port-a-potties
service.
I
am very happy to see so many
diverse groups that are
always fighting over
allocation, come together
for a change, for the
habitat. I had asked Robert
Ruffner from the Kenai
Watershed Forum to spear
head this effort due to the
fact he is not involved at
all over allocation. It
looked like it worked!!
Please read the letter below
to Governor Parnell
and e-mail me your thoughts.
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UPDATE ALERT (01/03/2010):
Ladies and gentlemen,
I am pleased to say that I have been working on getting temporary
fencing at the mouth of the Kasilof. Besides the fencing, I have
been pushing the state for more port-a-potties and bigger dumpster
service
The fencing is for habitat protection; keeping trucks and four
wheelers off of the grass on the dunes. Dipnetter's are always
getting bashed for destroying habitat, due to the few eggheads
that don't respect the resource. Well, I'm trying to change that
perception.
I have been in contact with the Kenai Watershed forum and they
too, would like to help out. If we can get some monies out of the
state for fencing, I would be asking for volunteers from SCADA and
the Kenai watershead forum to help. This would hopefully be in the
spring of this year.
I have also been in contact with the Kenai City council members,
enlisting their help in alleviating some of the problems
associated with dipnetting on the Kenai.
A few of these issues may take a year or so to bear fruit but I am
leaning on our legislature to come to an agreement and help out
the dipnet fisheries and protect the habitat at the same time. Now
who in politics would mind having their name associated with
habitat protection? That is what I fiqure too. They all would!
Anyone interested in what agencies and people I have been in
contact with, feel free to
e-mail me and I will reply shortly
Thanks, Ken Federico
PAST ALERT:
Email & Slide Show from Michael Kramer:
Feel free to forward the information (Click Here) .
I think they help people understand the issue better than a
lengthy legal brief. It has been difficult to get through the
mentality of many folks who say, “as long as I get my 30 fish, I
don’t care what they call me” they need to understand the
ramifications of being second class citizens, based on their
place of residence. Ramifications that go far beyond whether
they can catch a few Salmon to eat. They recent set aside
of 300 caribou for the Ahtna. This shows that if we are not
vigilant in preserving our Constitutional right to equal access,
we will soon see many other attempts to preferentially allocate
all our commonly owned game and fish.
Michael C. Kramer
Borgeson & Burns
Key Bank Center
100 Cushman St. Suite 300
Fairbanks, Alaska , 99701
(907) 452-1666
mkramer@bnblaw.com
Did you guys know about this second lawsuit?
Here is the piggy back lawsuit from
UCIDA trying to
declare the
personal use fishery unconstitutional.
Federal Lawsuit
attacking personal use fishing
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Below is a heads up from the KRSA. It seems that a commercial
fisher from Cordova is asking, in a lawsuit, that the Feds take
management of Salmon in state waters and the first step is to
eliminate personal use, right off the bat. First, let me thank
Ricky Gease for the heads up.
This is the fight that I was hoping would not happen. If the Feds
take over management, " WE WILL ALL LOSE "
This will affect all personal use fisheries, not only in
South-Central Alaska. I am pleading with all parties to pass this
to all in your e-mail addresses. DO NOT SPARE A person that you
know. If you dip in Chitina or South-Central, or even in Juneau,
THIS WILL TAKE ALL OF OUR FISH AWAY. WE all need to band together
and show a united front.
Please contact
http://www.chitnadipnetters.com/ or
www.Alaskadipnetting.com
for the South-Central Alaska dipnetters association. This is not
just a membership drive. This is float or sink!!!! I cannot stress
this any stronger. There are two links below. The first is a
peninsula Clarion article , talking about the Attorney Butler,
representing Commercial interests, wanting to shut down dipnetting.
The second link is my reply, through the letters to the editor,
Calling him on his trash-talking.
Any questions, Feel free to call me on my cell 715-8363. Or meet
my partner, Dennis Gease, at the Great Alaskan Sportsmen show I
await your reply,
The town Crier, Ken Federico, SCADA, 715-8363
LINK 1
LINK2
LEGAL DOCUMENTS
Lloyd defense.
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Jensen suit.pdf |
