Fundraising
CDA must raise $5,000 to pay off loans taken to pay for our subsistence classification lawsuit. Please donate. Click for more information.
BoF Meeting
CDA board member Paul Holland will be paying his own way to Valdez for the Board of Fish meeting December 2nd through the 7th. He will be representing the Chitina Dipnetters Association and dipnetters wanting a fair shake when the salmon resource is divided amongst subsistence, commercial, personal use and sport fishermen. Donations to help him defray his expenses are appreciated.
I believe that those who are gaining financial profit from their harvest of Copper River Chinook salmon, when they have contributed ZERO to the production and rearing of these fish, should be at the end of the barvest chain - i.e. they should be the last category of harvesters to receive an allocation and priviledge to harvest Chinook. My harvest of Chinook [and all salmon] is to provide food for my household. My harvest level is limited to what is considered to be a reasonable number of fish to sustain my personal needs. And I am personally harvesting and processing just about every single fish. The commercial fishery is a business operation, making a profit by harvesting large quantities of fish which they then turn around and sell to processors, who then sell to... The resource is supposed to be managed for the benefit of the residents of the State - when the Constitution says for economic benefit, that's what feeding myself is, and it doesn't mean for 'financial profit'. Subsistence and personal use fishing should have priority over out-of-state sport fishing and commercial fishing!