(Juneau) — The State of Alaska strongly opposes draft regulations published by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that would usurp the state’s authority to manage fish and wildlife in Alaska’s 16 national wildlife refuges. Released Thursday for preliminary public review, the proposed rule would require that fish and wildlife be managed for natural fluctuations, […]
Anchorage, Alaska — Thursday the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) published a proposed rule to clarify that predator control is not allowed on national wildlife refuges in Alaska, unless necessary to meet refuge purposes, federal laws or Service policy, and is consistent with the agency’s conservation mission. The rule was developed in response to […]
It was reported on Monday by the Alaska State Troopers that a Alaska Fish and Wildlife Trooper located an abandoned 10-fathom subsistence net on the Yukon River last week. When troopers checked the 10-fathom, four in mesh gillnet, they found that it also had an unmarked buoy. When they retrieved the net, they found that […]
Washington, D.C. – Alaskan Congressman Don Young Wednesday joined the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and the Alaska Migratory Bird Co-Management Council (AMBCC) to announce new guidance to implement the federal duck stamp exemption he ushered into law during the 113th Congress for subsistence hunters in rural Alaska. “Today, I’m proud to announce the […]