Background Iliamna-Newhalen subsistence salmon fishery
Behnke S. 1981. Background Iliamna-Newhalen subsistence salmon fishery. Alaska Department of Fish and Game Technical Paper. 44. Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Division of Subsistence. Dillingham, AK
The Iliamna Area Advisory Committee submitted Proposal #43, which would restrict the issuance of subsistence salmon fishing permits in the Iliamna and Lake Clark drainages to persons domiciled in those areas. Concern about increasing numbers of non-local fishermen, and about lower-then-expected sockeye returns to the Iliamna area in summer, 1981, were among reasons cited for the proposal. Some local residents are concerned that increasing fishing pressure by non-local peopler will lead to greater restrictions in the subsistence salmon fishery in coming years, particularly if there are poop sockeye returns to the Kvichak and Newhalen Systems. This paper provides basic information about the socioeconomic and resource use characteristics of the communities of Iliamna and Newhalen (see Map I) which may be of use to the Board in addressing proposals dealing with subsistence salmon fisheries in the Iliamna area. it is a preliminary report, based on subsistence permit data and field visits to these communities between 1978 and 1981, but no on intensive research in the communities.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Behnke, Steven
- Date of Issue
- 1981
- Publisher
- Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Division of Subsistence
- Units
- LACL , SWAN
- Keywords
- Animal Studies, Iliamna-Newhalen AK, Salmon, Subsistence