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Selections Made for the 2024 Partners for Fisheries Monitoring Program

04/10/2023

For Immediate Release:

April 10, 2023

 

The Office of Subsistence Management is pleased to announce seven new and continuing partnerships with Bristol Bay Native Association, Hoonah Indian Association, Native Village of Eyak, Native Village of Napaimute, Orutsararmiut Native Council, Qawalangin Tribe of Unalaska, and Yakutat Tlingit Tribe through the Partners for Fisheries Monitoring Program. Beginning in 2024, the Partners for Fisheries Monitoring Program will provide funding for a biologist or outreach coordinator position in each organization with the intent of increasing their abilities to participate in Federal subsistence fisheries management. In addition, the funding will allow the organizations to support a variety of opportunities for local rural students to connect with subsistence resource monitoring and management through science camps and paid internships.

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Subsistence Drawing Hunt Application Period Open for Units 7 & 15

03/01/2023

For Immediate Release: 

March 1, 2023

The Chugach National Forest District Ranger and the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge Manager, under authority of the Federal Subsistence Board announce the open application period for Federal Subsistence Drawing Hunts on Federal Lands on the Kenai Peninsula in Units 7 and 15.

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