When we built our Constitution, we wanted to make sure we developed it for Alaskans; sustainable, long-term, generationa...
if we have a Magnuson-Stevens Act which is designed to manage our fisheries to sustainable levels and those that reach t...
National standards set by the Magnuson-Stevens Act, named after Alaska's late Senator Ted Stevens and Washington's Warre...
As Chairman of the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Oceans and Fisheries, I'm often accused of bragging about Alaska, but the...
Sustainably is written into our Alaska constitution.
It's incumbent upon us, as lawmakers, to review them, to address them and to deal with them.
I really do hope this is the beginning of good, respectful engagement and dialog on this issue.
We commend Senators Lisa Murkowski and Mark Begich, and this Committee, for introducing and considering legislation targ...
It's not going to help if we move off to our respective corners and say, I don't want to deal with it because it's too b...
Now, we're going to have to quit that. If we're going to solve the issue of fish-and-game management on the basis of sus...
So when we talk about the concept of co-management, as long as everybody's talking and working with one another, I think...
Protection of Alaska Native hunting and fishing will continue to be the Alaska Native people's number one priority until...
I think it's probably fair to say that the response was unresponsive.
I think it is important that we understand what we're talking about here when we're talking about a subsistence lifestyl...
So that's the AFN recommendation, that the subsistence board should be restructured to include the chairs of each of the...
If the State of Alaska today were to pass a constitutional amendment that allows for a rural priority, would that, in an...
Are you able then to provide funding for all of the requests? You meet the requests?
Legislative changes, I think we all recognize, are tough to achieve anymore.
