The Lower Kobuk Fish and Game Advisory Committee will be holding a public meeting in Kiana in the School Library on Wednesday , December 9, 2015 at 11:30 am.  If you wish to participate in this meeting via teleconference call 1-800-504-8071 code 442-1717 at the date and time of the meeting.  Please press *6 to mute your line unless you wish to speak.

Agenda items will include the following items;

1. Public comments or concerns

    

   Old Business

   1. Updates on caribou herd

       

      New Business:

       

2. Fishery Proposals
   1. Proposal 141: Make rod and reel legal subsistence gear Proposal 141 page 118
3. Hunting Proposals
   1. Proposal 55: Change the statewide brown bear bag limit to one bear every regulatory year
   2. Proposal 57: Allow the sale of brown bear hides and skull
   3. Proposal 71: Clarify same day airborne probation
   4. Proposal 72: Establish a minimum caliber for moose
   5. Proposal 73: Establish a minimum caliber for caribou
   6. Proposal 74: Establish a minimum caliber for black and brown bears.
   7. Proposal 79: Require traps to be checked every 24 hours
   8. Proposal 80: Move trapping away from cities of 1,000 or more.
   9. Proposal 81: Define the term underwater for the purposes of allowing furbearers to be harvested with underwater traps or snares
   10. Proposal 85: Remove the exception for harvest tickets and reports for caribou.
   11. Proposal 104: Require hunters to submit a subsistence hunt report
   12. Proposal 105: Modify the qualification s for Tier II subsistence hunting permit point system
   13. Proposal 127: Antlerless Moose Reauthorization
   14. Proposal 131: Brown Bear Tag Fee Exemption
   15. Proposal 132: Hunting season for snowy owls
   16. Proposal 133: Hunting seasons for cormorants

        

        

        

4. Federal Proposals
   1. WP16-48: Allows a snow machine to be used to position a hunter to select individual caribou for harvest provided that the animals are not shot from a moving machine on Federal Land
   2. WP16-49: Seeks to change federal caribou hunting regulations
   3. WP16-50: seeks to increase the size of the pool of federally eligible hunters who could potentially participate in that Cape Krustenstern muskox hunt.
   4. WP16-51: Seeks to establish a federal season and hunt for muskox in the recently expanded hunt area of the Noatak River drainage
   5. WP16-52: Seeks to reduce caribou hunting on federal land to 7 caribou a day
   6. WP16-53: Seeks to close the federal sheep season in the Baird and Delong Mountains
   7. WP16-61: Seeks to change caribou hunting regulations North of the Singgoalik River

For further information contact Carmen Daggett. To be added to the electronic email notices for Lower Kobuk 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