A legal dispute between the U.S. government and the state of Alaska about subsistence fishing on the Kuskokwim River is growing, and a leading Native corporation says it could endanger subsistence hunting and fishing rights across Alaska.
Residents of Nikolai, Alaska are seen building a fish wheel on the Kuskokwim River in June 2013 in this image from a National Park Service documentary.
, issuing an order that temporarily prevents the Alaska Department of Fish and Game from opening gillnet fishing.Consequences beyond the KuskokwimThursday and in prior court documents, attorneys representing the state said Fish and Game should be in charge of deciding openings, among other reasons, because the Kuskokwim River “is not ‘public land’ under ANILCA.”
The definition of “public land” determines where preferential treatment applies, and a series of cases known as the Katie John decisions interpret how the federal programs run. “I think that the state is using or raising a number of other arguments that it appears to be prioritizing,” she said. “But in the event that those arguments are not successful, what the state is doing is preserving for itself the opportunity to litigate that issue.”
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