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Context, respect are vital to fishery management
By Commissioner Denby Lloyd
Recently I had the privilege to visit several villages on the lower Yukon River. I went with John Moller of Gov. Sarah Palin's staff and employees from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game to discuss this summer's Chinook salmon management and recent action by the North Pacific Fishery Management Council to curb bycatch of Chinook by the pollock trawl fleets in the Bering Sea.
We knew we were repeating distressing news. As far as we can project, the commercial fishery for Chinook will not open in the Yukon River, yet again, this year. I also knew that many Alaskans feel that the North Pacific Council should have taken stronger action to control bycatch. What I wasn't prepared for, but should have been, was the graciousness and respect granted us by our hosts in Holy Cross, Anvik, Hooper Bay, Scammon Bay, Mountain Village and Emmonak.
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It is my opinion that all salmon are the property of the land Barron people of the Americas, Canada, and the USA, for these salmon spawn in the places WE live. Regardless if this resource matures in salt water. This does not give the right of the trollers to eliminate the substance resource of those of us land locked, to take our food resource for the rest of the world, and waste it as by catch. These salmon belong to the land dwellers and their communities. With this FLAW in our laws, it is a crime to sacrifice the people that RELIE on this resource. Our government has failed to maintain its promise in ANICLA, one of many broken promises to the First people of the Americas. I advocate to catch the fish regardless of the law. Once the law has been broken, and you have been charged you will be allowed legal counsel, this will allow case law, in my opinion in to your decision. Fight for your rights. Remember WHEN it came to oil they PROMISED, hold them to it, Obama.