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MANAGEMENT PLANS
For harbor seals and other natural resources
Why:
1. Enhance Traditional Knowledge use and documentation
2. Significant increases in funding opportunities for communities
3. Helps guide development in habitat rich areas
4. Protection of resources by management before depletion
5. Growing human interaction from commercial fisheries,
infrastructure, and tourism
6. Teaches local users, students, and others importance of
subsistence resources
7. Can create new jobs
8. Demonstrates self-determination of community
9. Tribe or community can do research or work collaboratively
through co-management with state and federal governments
10. Plans can be flexible and designed by community members to
reflect local customs and traditional law
11. May improve local research needs, tribal enforcement, resource
monitoring and education.
12. Endorses tribal authority to manage in the eyes of state, federal,
and public critics while maintaining local customs and traditions
How:
1. Use examples from other Alaskan tribes or other organizations
with plans and authorize by tribal statute
2. Find support through existing organizations that have expertise
with specific resources or have skills in building or expanding
capacity
3. Indian Environmental Regulatory Enhancement Act of 1990 (P.L.
101-408) and many other opportunities for grants
4. Bring forward information to tribal council or community forum
5. Use existing community human-resources
6. Consult elders, youth, and nearby tribes or communities – gives
strength to management plans in regional areas
7. Can vary by scale; local village level to regional
Valuable input and direction comes from the ANHSC commissioners about the best
way to move forward with harvest management.
After much discussion ANHSC staff was directed to facilitate the creation of
management plans by helping establish tribal ordinances, and ensuring self
governance for the tribes.
Therefor the ANHSC is happy to announce of award of a grant from the BIA. These
funds have allowed the ANHSC to continue to research harvest management
guidelines for coastal Alaska Native communities for purposes of promoting local
management of harbor seals, in conjunction with data collected from the Harvest
Assessment Program.
This project also continues work set forth in the mission statement of the ANHSC.
The pilot project has already begun and is taking place in the Kodiak Archipelago.
way to move forward with harvest management.
After much discussion ANHSC staff was directed to facilitate the creation of
management plans by helping establish tribal ordinances, and ensuring self
governance for the tribes.
Therefor the ANHSC is happy to announce of award of a grant from the BIA. These
funds have allowed the ANHSC to continue to research harvest management
guidelines for coastal Alaska Native communities for purposes of promoting local
management of harbor seals, in conjunction with data collected from the Harvest
Assessment Program.
This project also continues work set forth in the mission statement of the ANHSC.
The pilot project has already begun and is taking place in the Kodiak Archipelago.