We want you to understand the importance of Tribal voices, Local & Traditional Knowledge and cooperative management in fishery management processes.
If you are serious about talking about co-management, you have to look at getting more funding for it.
We are tired. No more.
Traditional ecological knowledge must inform our actions and decisions.
Discontinue using four-inch nets. They are killing my salmon out there.
Stop allowing the status quo so as to not affect industry harvest to the extent practicable in fisheries management.
It is time for a new path.
The loss of our critical salmon is ripping and tearing apart the fabric of who we are as Yup'ik and Dene people.
The Federal Government must act.
I feel this is historic in many ways, to actually be able to bring the Senate Indian Affairs Committee to Bethel
We are practicing cultural genocide from the Federal and the State government.