The Southern Norton Sound Fish and Game Advisory Committee will be holding a public meeting in Unalakleet in the Native Village of Unalakleet on Wednesday, October 28th, 2015 at 11:45 AM.  You can participate in this meeting by calling 1-800-504-8071, code 442-1717.

Agenda items will include the following items;

1. Review previous Meeting minutes 1/23/15
2. Public comments or concerns

    

   Old Business

   New Business:

    

3. Elections Three open Seats in Unalakleet
4. Fishery Proposals
   1. Crab Pot Limit ACR
   2. Proposal 127: Expand commercial fishing area of Yukon District 1 (pg 106)
   3. Prop 128: Extend commercial fishing three miles offshore and north to Point Romanoff in District 1 of the Yukon Area (pg 107)
   4. Prop 129: In times of conservation, return specific species immediately to the water unharmed while beach seining (pg 108)
   5. Prop 130: Allow restriction of gillnet mesh size during times of conservation for chum and king salmon (pg 109)
   6. Prop 131: Increase subsistence fishing time with gillnets and beach seines in Sub District 1 (pg 110)
   7. Prop 132: Add cast net as legal subsistence gear and allow both dip and cast nets to be used in all subsistence fisheries in Norton Sound (pg 110)
   8. Prop 133: Allow beach seines for commercial harvest of chum and pink salmon in Sub-districts 5 &6 during king salmon conservation (pg 111)
   9. Prop 134: Change the boundary line separating the Norton Sound-Port Clarence Area and Yukon Area at Point Romanoff (pg 112).
   10. Prop 136: Create a directed commercial fishery for cisco in Norton Sound or Port Clarence Districts (Proposal 121)
   11. Prop 214: Retention of fish taken in a commercial fishery (pg 181)  
5. Hunting Proposals
   1. Musk Ox
   2. Proposal 55: Change the statewide brown bear bag limit to one bear every regulatory year
   3. Proposal 57: Allow the sale of brown bear hides and skull
   4. Proposal 71: Clarify same day airborne probation
   5. Proposal 72: Establish a minimum caliber for moose
   6. Proposal 73: Establish a minimum caliber for caribou
   7. Proposal 74: Establish a minimum caliber for black and brown bears.
   8. Proposal 79: Require traps to be checked every 24 hours
   9. Proposal 80: Move trapping away from cities of 1,000 or more.
   10. Proposal 81: Define the term underwater for the purposes of allowing furbearers to be harvested with underwater traps or snares
   11. Proposal 85: Remove the exception for harvest tickets and reports for caribou.
   12. Proposal 104: Require hunters to submit a subsistence hunt report
   13. Proposal 105: Modify the qualification s for Tier II subsistence hunting permit point system
   14. Proposal 127: Antlerless Moose Reauthorization
   15. Proposal 131: Brown Bear Tag Fee Exemption
   16. Proposal 132: Hunting season for snowy owls
   17. Proposal 133: Hunting seasons for cormorants
6. Federal Proposals
   1. WP 16-43: Change hunt area description and closure for caribou (Unit 18, 22A)
   2. WP 16-44: Change hunt area descriptions, harvest limit and season for brown bear (Units 22 C, 22D)
   3. WP 16-45: Change hunt area description for caribou (Unit 22E)
   4. WP 16-46 Rescind closure for moose (Unit 22E)
   5. WP 16-47 Create antlerless moose season (Unit 22E)
   6. WP 16-37 Change in harvest limit and season for caribou (21D, 22,23,24, 25, 26A, 26B)

Adjourn

Other Dates and Deadlines:

January 12-17, 2016                  BOF-Arctic-Yukon-Kuskokwim

                                                Comment Deadline: December 28^th, 2015

March 8-12                               BOF-Statewide Meeting

Comment Deadline: February 18, 2016

March 18-28                             BOG-Statewide Meeting

                                                            Comment Deadline: March 4^th, 2016

May 1^st, 2016                            BOG Arctic Region

Proposal Deadline: May 1^st, 2016

For further information contact Carmen Daggett. To be added to the electronic email notices for Southern Norton Sound AC Meetings, please email to the address at the bottom of this notice with your request.


Advisory committees are local groups that meet to discuss fishing and wildlife issues and to provide recommendations to Alaska Board of Fisheries and Alaska Board of Game. All meetings are open to the public. Advisory Committees are intended to provide a local forum on fish and wildlife issues. Their purpose includes: 1) developing regulatory proposals, 2) evaluating regulatory proposals and making recommendations to the appropriate board, 3) providing a local forum for fish and wildlife conservation and use, including matters relating to habitat, 4) advising the appropriate regional council on resources, and 5) consulting with individuals, organizations, and agencies.


If you are a person with a disability who needs a special accommodation in order to participate in any of these public meetings, please contact Carmen Daggett at 907-442-1717 no later than 48 hours prior to the meeting, to make any necessary arrangements.


Carmen Daggett
Board Support Section
PO BOX 689
Kotzebue, AK 99752
907.442.1717
Fax: 907.442.2420
carmen.daggett@alaska.gov