New SE Alaska limits on blacktail deer. 1-Buck

[Glory]

Ketchikan residents could always have a total of 6 on POW. It was a combination of state and federal land of 4 and 2. Now that the same board granted Ketchikan "rural Status" EVERYONE qualifies for subsistence and the new harvesting options and bag limits. Own your own helicopter, yep you qualify. You asked a question about what does moose and caribou have to do with it. I posted the definition of subsistence when it originated. What rubs people the wrong way is it has gone a long way from what was intended. In the spirit of subsistence if you are wealthy enough to head off for a Moose hunt up north maybe you should not qualify for subsistence because you could certainly buy protein. Income qualifiers were originally left out because these designations were granted to very rural, generally poor, isolated small communities and tribes.

What are you talking about?

 

[Glory]

Simple, drop the harvest to a sustainable number (whatever that is). Go catch salmon.

Rather ironic that you can't understand other communities deal with pressure and limitations on there available resources. Instead of getting something for free, you should have to consider a counterbalance. You get to further deplete the unsustainable deer (your argument) locally available to you, so you should not get to deplete other meat resources outside of your GMU.

Or, is your argument that the way of life in rural communities is jetting around the state to kill and fly meat back?

Subsistence should require something to insure it is not abused by those who don't need it. Something not monetary that those who actually need it will not struggle under and to avoid the messy business of trying to decide who does or does not actually deserve it through things like income requirements.

Where do you live?