The Lower Kobuk Fish & Game Advisory Committee (AC) meeting scheduled for Tuesday, January 7, 2020 in Kiana has been postponed out of respect to families in the region who have lost loved ones in recent days. It will be rescheduled to a later date.

Agenda items will include the following:

Election of Officers

Department Reports – Wildlife and Boards Support

Review Wildlife Management topics pertinent to Game Management Unit 23

Board of Game proposals

• Open a year-round season for caribou bull harvest in Unit 23

• Reduce the bag limit for caribou in Unit 23

• Extend the season for taking cow caribou in Unit 23

• Restrict the use of snow-machines for taking caribou in Unit 23

• Remove the restriction on caribou calf harvest in Unit 23

• Prohibit nonresident hunting of moose or caribou under intensive management in the Western Arctic until harvest or population objectives are met; staff to provide intensive management program scenarios which does not currently exist in Unit 23

• Establish intensive management for bear across the Western Arctic; no intensive management exists for bear in Unit 23

• Reauthorize the current resident tag fee exemptions for brown bear in Unit 23

• Clarify that big game tags be paid for and issued prior to hunters taking big game that require tags

Board of Fisheries proposals

• Review statewide king & tanner crab proposals from the Norton Sound area

Advisory committees are local groups that meet to discuss fish and wildlife issues and to provide recommendations to the Alaska Board of Game and the Alaska Board of Fisheries on regulations that may affect them. All meetings are open to the public. As the local forum, committees develop and/or evaluate regulatory proposals and provide recommendations to the appropriate board, discuss conservation and use, including matters related to habitat, advising the regional councils on resources and consulting with individuals, organizations, and agencies.

If you are a person with a disability who requires special accommodations in order to participate in this meeting, please contact Hazel Smith at 907-442-1717 or 907-412-3080 prior to the meeting so necessary arrangements may be made. For those who wish to participate by teleconference, please call 1-800-504-8071, access code 4421717.

Contact:

Hazel Smith

Alaska Department of Fish & Game

Boards Support Section

PO Box 689

Kotzebue, AK 99752

Direct: 907-442-1717

Cell: 907-412-3080

Main: 907-442-3420

hazel.smith@alaska.gov