State Wants US Supreme Court to Hear Battle over Salmon and Subsistence on Southwest Alaska River

State wants US Supreme Court to hear battle over salmon and subsistence on Southwest Alaska River

The fight with the feds has implications for subsistence management statewide, critics say.

Dunleavy administration asks US Supreme Court to decide the future of subsistence fishing in Alaska

The Kuskokwim River is seen in this image captured by scientists working on NASA's Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment, or ABoVE, which measured the elevation of rivers and lakes in Alaska and Canada to study how thawing permafrost affects hydrology. (Photo by Peter Griffith/NASA)The state of Alaska is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether rural Alaskans should continue to get preferential fishing rights on most rivers and lakes wit…

Dunleavy administration asks US Supreme Court to decide the future of subsistence fishing in Alaska - The Alaska Current

After losing an appeal, the state is asking the high justices to decide a decades-old dispute over Alaska fishing rights.

Dunleavy administration asks US Supreme Court to decide the future of subsistence fishing in Alaska - Chilkat Valley News

The state of Alaska is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether rural Alaskans should continue to get preferential fishing rights on most rivers and lakes within federal parks, preserves and reserves. On Monday, the Alaska Department of Law asked the Supreme Court to reconsider a ruling from a three-judge panel from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which upheld the state’s existing two-tiered subsistence fishing system last month.  …