Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy has named longtime Republican politician and businessman John Binkley to an open seat on the board that controls the $80 billion Alaska Permanent Fund. The six-person board has been operating with five members since July, when board member Ellie Rubenstein resigned after leaked emails suggested that corporation staff felt pressured by Rubenstein to […]
The Alaska State Board of Fisheries this week will consider four proposals that would eliminate or reduce bycatch in the Prince William Sound “midwater” trawl fishery, which has zero observers and regularly bycatches bottom-dwelling species, potentially violating state law CORDOVA, ALASKA—The Alaska State Board of Fisheries is this week set to consider four proposals that […]
WASHINGTON — The Departments of the Interior and Agriculture today announced a proposal to strengthen Alaska Tribal representation on the Federal Subsistence Board (FSB), which manages subsistence use on federal lands and waters in Alaska. For thousands of years, subsistence practices have been immensely important for Alaska Native communities, and remain deeply intertwined with their […]
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA—The Arctic-Yukon-Kuskokwim Tribal Consortium (AYK TC) applauded the recent appointment of three western Alaska Tribal members to the North Pacific Fishery Management Council’s (the Council’s) Advisory Panel, leading to more Alaska Native representation on the 19-member panel than ever before. “The North Pacific Fishery Management Council has substantial impacts to western Alaska, so it […]