This limited participation would be accomplished by allowing qualified rural residents the right to invite those with close cultural and traditional use ties back to the local community to serve as a proxy hunter or fisher for that resident. The harvested resource would remain the property of the qualified resident. This proxy-only participation would result in no additional allocation requirement for a local area above the resident population's needs. Reinvigorated Management System. The second ingredient in the concept is to increase local participation in fish and game management decisions.
Local input is absolutely necessary to a sound system.
The legislature and the boards of fish and game would retain final authority for fish and game management, and the state system of regional subsistence advisory councils would be reinstituted and local advisory committees continued. Would violate the sustained yield principle. The improved structure would be closest to the pre-1990 state system of regional subsistence councils that most Alaskans feel was superior to the federal system presently in place in several significant ways. Be conscious of the competing interests of all user groups. Be capable of supporting the sustained yield principles.