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Harvest Data Assessment Program
In 1998 Alaska Native Harbor Seal Commission (ANHSC) entered into a
cooperative agreement with Alaska Department of Fish & Game Subsistence
Division (ADF&G) to jointly conduct the harvest assessment project. This data is
vital to estimate the annual mortality rate for the stock assessment reports as
required in the Marine Mammal Protection Act, Section 117 (MMPA).
Each year a network of trained research assistants, hired from participant coastal
communities, perform household interviews throughout the Harbor seal range. Over
1300 Alaska Native households are asked to share the previous year's harbor
seal and steller sea lion subsistence takes. This program has allowed for strong
data to be available to the ANHSC for management and research purposes.
The program involves:
Support from local Native Governments include:
Communities Surveyed annually for their subsistence take of harbor seals
In 1998 Alaska Native Harbor Seal Commission (ANHSC) entered into a
cooperative agreement with Alaska Department of Fish & Game Subsistence
Division (ADF&G) to jointly conduct the harvest assessment project. This data is
vital to estimate the annual mortality rate for the stock assessment reports as
required in the Marine Mammal Protection Act, Section 117 (MMPA).
Each year a network of trained research assistants, hired from participant coastal
communities, perform household interviews throughout the Harbor seal range. Over
1300 Alaska Native households are asked to share the previous year's harbor
seal and steller sea lion subsistence takes. This program has allowed for strong
data to be available to the ANHSC for management and research purposes.
The program involves:
- 43 local/regional subsistence research assistants
- Researchers receive in-person training
- Researchers perform such tasks as updating community list for
household/hunters, administering household surveys, data proofing of
surveys,mailing surveys, and tracking sheets for data entry and
analysis.
Support from local Native Governments include:
- Identifying Native Households
- Referring potential local subsistence researchers
- Identifying expert hunters in the community
- Use of facilities for training/meetings/interviews
Communities Surveyed annually for their subsistence take of harbor seals
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS & Quyana!
This project would not have been possible without tremendous local support in every
community where we conducted the survey. We wish to thank each tribal council, city council,
and all of the regional Native organizations that facilitated our work. Heartfelt thanks are
owed to the many elders and local marine mammal experts who allowed us to
interview them at length about their lifelong use and observations of sea lions and harbor
seals. In addition, we are deeply indebted to the many hundreds of hunters who volunteered
to report their subsistence harvests to our staff and to locally-hired research assistants.
The forty local researchers who conducted household interviews deserve to be recognized
individually for their high level of interest and work. We look forward to working with many
again in the near future as the project moves into its thirteenth year:
Michael Eluska, Akhiok
Antone Shelikoff, Akutan
Nina Tinker, Aleknagik and Dillingham
Harriet Silva, Angoon
George Eleshansky,Chenega Bay
Amy Skonberg, Chignik Bay
Laura Stepanoff, Chignik Lagoon
Nailene Lind, Chignik Lake
Frederick Hamilton, Craig
Virgie Alto, Egegik
Diane Stickler, Haines
Harlena Warford, Hoonah
Henry Smith, Kake
Kathyrn Reft, Karluk
Nyna Fleury, Ketchikan and Saxman
Lef Kenezuroff, King Cove
Mary Brown, King Salmon, Naknek and South Naknek
James Rowan, Klawock
Larry Amox,JR, Kodiak
Marlene Aga, Larsen Bay
Lillian Elvsaas ,Seldovia
Bud Jansen, Cordova
Rhonda Nick, Manokotak
Nick Tanape Sr,Nanwalek
Andrew R. Lestinkof Jr, Nikolski
Matilda Christiansen, Old Harbor
Victoria Cornwell, Ouzinkie
Andy Shangin, Perryville
Byron Lyons, Petersburg
Jerry Robart, Port Graham
Amanda Squartsoff, Port Lions
Gerda Kosbruk, Port Heiden and Pilot Point
Lila Sanders, Sand Point
Min Bartels, Sitka
Peggy Totemoff, Tatitlek
Elizabeth Myas, Togiak and Twin Hills
Anfesia Tutiakoff, Unalaska
Sandra Churchill, Wrangell
Raymond Sensmeier, Yakutat
This project would not have been possible without tremendous local support in every
community where we conducted the survey. We wish to thank each tribal council, city council,
and all of the regional Native organizations that facilitated our work. Heartfelt thanks are
owed to the many elders and local marine mammal experts who allowed us to
interview them at length about their lifelong use and observations of sea lions and harbor
seals. In addition, we are deeply indebted to the many hundreds of hunters who volunteered
to report their subsistence harvests to our staff and to locally-hired research assistants.
The forty local researchers who conducted household interviews deserve to be recognized
individually for their high level of interest and work. We look forward to working with many
again in the near future as the project moves into its thirteenth year:
Michael Eluska, Akhiok
Antone Shelikoff, Akutan
Nina Tinker, Aleknagik and Dillingham
Harriet Silva, Angoon
George Eleshansky,Chenega Bay
Amy Skonberg, Chignik Bay
Laura Stepanoff, Chignik Lagoon
Nailene Lind, Chignik Lake
Frederick Hamilton, Craig
Virgie Alto, Egegik
Diane Stickler, Haines
Harlena Warford, Hoonah
Henry Smith, Kake
Kathyrn Reft, Karluk
Nyna Fleury, Ketchikan and Saxman
Lef Kenezuroff, King Cove
Mary Brown, King Salmon, Naknek and South Naknek
James Rowan, Klawock
Larry Amox,JR, Kodiak
Marlene Aga, Larsen Bay
Lillian Elvsaas ,Seldovia
Bud Jansen, Cordova
Rhonda Nick, Manokotak
Nick Tanape Sr,Nanwalek
Andrew R. Lestinkof Jr, Nikolski
Matilda Christiansen, Old Harbor
Victoria Cornwell, Ouzinkie
Andy Shangin, Perryville
Byron Lyons, Petersburg
Jerry Robart, Port Graham
Amanda Squartsoff, Port Lions
Gerda Kosbruk, Port Heiden and Pilot Point
Lila Sanders, Sand Point
Min Bartels, Sitka
Peggy Totemoff, Tatitlek
Elizabeth Myas, Togiak and Twin Hills
Anfesia Tutiakoff, Unalaska
Sandra Churchill, Wrangell
Raymond Sensmeier, Yakutat
The ANHSC would like to welcome Marty Waters as the new
Harvest Data Coordinator, ANHSC Harvest Data Coordinator, to
be added to our confidential hunter household contact list
Email Marty
907-345-0554
Harvest Data Coordinator, ANHSC Harvest Data Coordinator, to
be added to our confidential hunter household contact list
Email Marty
907-345-0554
2004 Brief of
Harvest Data Study
Findings click link
Harvest Data Study
Findings click link
