What do we do to replace wild food sources, like salmon, when they are in such states of collapse?

What it really comes down to is how you not only feed your families, but how you keep your culture and traditions alive.

If we have funding that was stable for a dedicated period of time that we knew was available to us, and we could work across regions to really further co-management, that is what I would recommend.

We need to be paying attention to that aspect of knowledge that you bring to the table.

When we do manage our own world, we have places like YKHC, like ANMC, that didn't happen overnight.

I would just really encourage Senator Lisa Murkowski and the Committee on Indian Affairs that you please govern us for the health and well-being of our people.

I absolutely hear and understand the fears that you have about the future of subsistence.

What good is the federal trust responsibility if the results in the loss of our fish, our communities, our culture, our lives?

We must work together, because ultimately the loss of salmon threatens your ways of life.

Help me end suicide. Help me protect our Native rights. Help me restore our resources for future generations. And most of all, help me save Alaska.

There are no permanent protections for that co-stewardship.

We also appreciate Senator Murkowski's support for greater Tribal representation on the North Pacific Fishery Management Council.

We bear the brunt of the conservation. We, the end users, the little people, the people that matter, have been silenced, we have been ignored, we have been marginalized by the very government that is here to protect our interests as…

Our subsistence way of life must have unconditional Federal support, and the State of Alaska must show willingness to seek a different path forward other than litigation.

short of legislation, what needs to happen, because legislation will take a long time, I know that, but I think even something as simple as crossing the lines, crossing parties and getting a compromise on this one issue, because the red…

Our tribes matter. Subsistence matters. Our villages matter. Salmon matter. We cannot be ignored any longer.

One of the key takeaways from that was the need for Native people to have a seat at the table, equal voice in management of subsistence resource.

I believe that the AYK salmon crash is a test for the Arctic Strategy for the Federal Government.