The Northern Norton Sound Fish and Game Advisory Committee will be holding a public meeting in Nome in the Old St. Joe's on Tuesday, October 27, 2015 at 6:00 pm. You may participate telephonically by calling 1-800-504-8071 code 442-1717.

Agenda items will include the following items;

Old Business

1. Updates on caribou herd

    

   New Business:

    

1. Elections Two Seats Open (At Large and Teller)
   1. Elect someone for WACH representative
   2. Elect someone to attend AYK, Statewide BOF, Statewide BOG
2. Fishery Proposals
   1. Crab Pot Limit ACR
   2. Prop 48: Permit Stacking (pg 43)
   3. Prop 129: In times of conservation, return specific species immediately to the water unharmed while beach seining (pg 108)
   4. Prop 130: Allow restriction of gillnet mesh size during times of conservation for chum and king salmon (pg 109)
   5. Prop 131: Increase subsistence fishing time with gillnets and beach seines in Sub District 1 (pg 110)
   6. 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)
   7. Prop 133: Allow beach seines for commercial harvest of chum and pink salmon in Sub-districts 5 &6 during king salmon conservation (pg 111)
   8. Prop 134: Change the boundary line separating the Norton Sound-Port Clarence Area and Yukon Area at Point Romanoff (pg 112).
   9. Prop 141: Legalizing rod and reel as subsistence gear (pg 118)
   10. Prop 146: Create a directed commercial fishery for cisco in Norton Sound or Port Clarence Districts (Pg 121)
   11. Prop 181: Repeal the South Unimak and Shumagin Islands June Salmon Management Plan (pg 154)
   12. Prop 183: Modify the South Unimak and Shumagin Islands June Salmon Management Plan (pg 155)
   13. Prop 184: Repeal the current South Unimak and Shumagin Islands (pg 155)
   14. Prop 214: Retention of fish taken in a commercial fishery (pg 181)
3. Hunting Proposals
   1. Musk Ox
   2. Prop 55: Change the statewide brown bear bag limit to one bear every regulatory year (pg 48)
   3. Prop 57: Allow the sale of brown bear hides and skull (pg 50)
   4. Prop 71: Clarify same day airborne probation (pg 60)
   5. Prop 72: Establish a minimum caliber for moose (pg 61)
   6. Prop 73: Establish a minimum caliber for caribou (pg 61)
   7. Prop 74: Establish a minimum caliber for black and brown bears (pg 62)
   8. Prop 79: Require traps to be checked every 24 hours (pg 65)
   9. Prop 80: Move trapping away from cities of 1,000 or more.(pg 66)
   10. Prop 81: Define the term underwater for the purposes of allowing furbearers to be harvested with underwater traps or snares (pg 68)
   11. Prop 85: Remove the exception for harvest tickets and reports for caribou (pg 71)
   12. Prop 103: Tier I subsistence permit holders (pg 85)
   13. Prop 104: Require hunters to submit a subsistence hunt report (pg 87)
   14. Prop 105: Modify the qualification s for Tier II subsistence hunting permit point system (pg 88)
   15. Prop 127: Antlerless Moose Reauthorization (pg 126)
   16. Prop 131: Brown Bear Tag Fee Exemption (pg 130)
   17. Prop 132: Hunting season for snowy owls (pg 133)
   18. Prop 133: Hunting seasons for cormorants (pg 133)
4. 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)