Cultural Preservation

Subsistence and Sustainable Development

Subsistence Halibut Information & Applications

Community Quota Entity Program

Program Purpose
The goal of the Subsistence and Sustainable Development program is to protect and advance the inherent and legal rights of Alaska Natives as Tribes, to continue the customary and traditional uses on lands and waters of the plants, fish and wildlife resources of the Southeast region.

Program Description
The Subsistence and Sustainable Development program is under the guidance and leadership of the Southeast Alaska Intertribal Fish and Wildlife Commission and their Director. The Commission consists of all the Southeast tribes and they join by resolution of their respective councils. It is the first Alaska Intertribal Commission designed to address problems relating to subsistence and commercial fishing in the region. The division is headed by the Director who plans and administers all programs and functions including policy development, advocacy, and research.

The program operates through and with the following organizations:

• Southeast Alaska inter-Tribal Fish and Wildlife Commission
• Southeast Alaska Migratory Bird Commission
• Southeast Alaska Harbor Seal Commission
• Southeast Alaska Sea Otter Commission

Eligibility Requirements
Assistance and support is provided to Alaska Natives/American Indians in our Service Area, and Southeast Alaska communities which are organized for implementing the targeted subsistence right, and/or have existing subsistence rights for protection.

Accomplishments
Reauthorization of the Marine Mammal Protection Act
Marine Mammal Stock Assessments
Migratory Bird Treaty
Tlingit Place Names Project

Funding Agencies
Funding is provided through the Federal Compact and; the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Migratory Birds.