
We want you to understand the importance of Tribal voices, Local & Traditional Knowledge and cooperative management in fishery management processes.
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We want you to understand the importance of Tribal voices, Local & Traditional Knowledge and cooperative management in fishery management processes.

Let's have a demonstration project on co-management. Let's fund it.

We have to be able to manage State waters, Federal waters, holistically.

I am absolutely not dismissing changes to ANILCA or any other legislation here.

The traditional harvesting culture in Alaska Native communities remains really strong.

We have sacrificed a lot on the Yukon, from salmon gear to fishing times, of the whole people on Yukon River.

We are practicing cultural genocide from the Federal and the State government.

I would like to thank Senator Murkowski, members of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, and your staff for organizing this field hearing to hear directly from our Tribes.

We need immediate action to find solutions to this crisis. That won't happen unless the Federal Government is willing to listen to and partner with Tribes.

We voted you in with trust, as well as others. It is time for us to wake up and not sleep.

Salmon are not just swimming dollar signs, Salmon are our life. They are in our DNA.

Congress needs to amend ANILCA to protect, once and for all, Alaska Native and Rural subsistence hunting and fishing rights.

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.

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

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

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

it seems to me that the Yukon is in a humanitarian crisis.

We need immediate action to find solutions to this crisis. That won't happen unless the Federal Government is willing to listen to and partner with Tribes.