Thank you, Mr. Winkelman.

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

the need for the Federal Government to pay attention, to pay attention, to listen, to understand, and to act.

If we don't fish, we don't eat. It is pretty basic.

The record will remain open for two weeks now. So anything that you might wish to supplement for the record will be included as part of that.

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

We need equal decision-making representation in Federal fisheries management, in this case the North Pacific Fisheries Management Council.

We appreciate Senator Murkowski's work to assist AYK salmon populations through Congressionally-directed spending in support of research, monitoring, and co-management.

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.

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…

Congress needs to amend ANILCA to protect once and for all Alaska Native rural subsistence hunting and fishing rights and ensure our people's ability to co-manage these resources.

I would like to thank U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski and the US Senate Committee on Indian Affairs for holding this Field Hearing

We urge you to push federal agencies to work with us to develop co-stewardship agreements for federally-managed lands and fisheries.

This is something that I want to do, because I hear you.

We have no choice but to be aware of every part and piece of the ecosystem, because everything is connected.

I wish they would close that Area M for five years, and we would see the truth in five years.

Failure to do so will be a death blow to my river, to my people, and our survival, before we go extinct.

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