If you are serious about talking about co-management, you have to look at getting more funding for it.

So let me ask on that, I want to get your input on this.

This is not a check the box. This is not something that I had to do. This is something that I want to do, because I hear you.

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

I want to thank each of you for your written comments and what you have shared here for the committee and community.

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.

You have taken a huge step forward by moving the Office of Subsistence Management under the Secretary of Interior.

This is not the time or the place to develop the world's largest open pit mine on the backs of the tribal nations of this region.

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

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

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.

Thank you for sharing in ways that are both informative and personal.

It is time for a new path.

I do not have that magic button that can put fish back in the river now.

This is not a check the box. This is not something that I had to do. This is something that I want to do, because I hear you.

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

The way we are going, yes, we are going to see extinction of salmon within 10 years.