ACTION ALERT: SB 42
Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2015 3:26 pm
Hi All:
Your help is urgently needed to prevent the AK Legislature for creating a personal use priority in the state. This would mean that over 100 personal use fisheries in the state would have priority harvest second only to subsistence, and over sport and commercial. This is contrary to the Board of Fisheries' intent when they established personal use.
Please read the attached action alert and consider weighing on this issue. There is a committee hearing next week (April 1), where you could testify via teleconference. Or, there are several other options for letting legislators know what you think.
ATA supports personal use fisheries, but there is no need to establish a special priority that could become unnecessarily divisive between fishermen. Personal Use fisheries are not based on a critical need for food in times of shortage, like so many subsistence fisheries around the state are. Therefore, personal use fishermen should be held accountable for day to day conservation needs, just like their sport and commercial neighbors.
Thanks for your help!
Dale
ATA
Your help is urgently needed to prevent the AK Legislature for creating a personal use priority in the state. This would mean that over 100 personal use fisheries in the state would have priority harvest second only to subsistence, and over sport and commercial. This is contrary to the Board of Fisheries' intent when they established personal use.
Please read the attached action alert and consider weighing on this issue. There is a committee hearing next week (April 1), where you could testify via teleconference. Or, there are several other options for letting legislators know what you think.
ATA supports personal use fisheries, but there is no need to establish a special priority that could become unnecessarily divisive between fishermen. Personal Use fisheries are not based on a critical need for food in times of shortage, like so many subsistence fisheries around the state are. Therefore, personal use fishermen should be held accountable for day to day conservation needs, just like their sport and commercial neighbors.
Thanks for your help!
Dale
ATA