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Marine Mammal Utilization Survey

The Chugach Regional Resources Commission thanks you for your participation!

Chugach Regional Resources Commission (CRRC) recently added a Marine Mammal Program to their organization. This program is designed to build capacities to manage the marine mammals within the region and work on the issues of blood quantum that inhibit the continuation of cultural heritage and traditions to younger generations. Marine mammals are an important component of Alaska Native life and the basis of rich cultural traditions. Marine mammals play a significant role in food security and provide a source of revenue through the sale of arts in areas where few income opportunities are available.
CRRC is forming a working group that consists of different organizations and village representatives, to discuss the regulatory structures and priorities currently in place for the management of marine mammals, as well as generate potential approaches to addressing regulatory challenges. This group will help guide the work the Marine Mammal Coordinator, Raven Cunningham, is doing for our region. Some of the goals are:

Proactively work on creating a co-management agreements that strengthens the roles of Tribes or their designated consortia with the National Marine Fisheries Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Compiling existing harvest data by community and species and documenting Traditional Ecological Knowledge on community shifts in harvest and use practices over time.
Working with ADF&G to compile existing data on the biological status of Steller sea lions, harbor seals, and sea otters used by CRRC communities and summarize current federal management priorities for these species.

Overall, we want to make sure there is proper management of marine mammals within the region. We want to assist and advocate a pro-active approach, while emphasizing tribal involvement at all stages of research, development, and implementation.

Please fill out this survey to help CRRC compile knowledge on the uses of marine mammals in the Chugach Region. CRRC Will be using the information collected to help guide the Marine Mammal Program Coordinator and the work she will be doing. All answers will be anonymous - the contact information will be used for the raffle, there will be three winners.
Raffle Awards:
1. $400 credit to Arctic Wolf Tannery
2. $250 fuel credit
3. $100 meat box from Alaska Sausage

1. Contact Information - your answers will remain anonymous and contact information will not be shared. This is for the purpose of a raffle once the survey is completed. We don't have a set timeline but will close the survey when we have the majority of our Chugach members respond. *This question is required.

Name

Email Address

Phone Number

2. What Chugach village are you from? *This question is required.

3. How many Alaska Natives are in your household? *This question is required.

4. Do you or anyone in your household subsistence hunt or have hunted in the past? (Click all that apply)

5. What areas have you harvested marine mammals? (Please give specific locations, this is for CRRC's use of subsistence areas. Review map above.)

6. What marine mammals does your household use as subsistence food? (Click all that apply)

7. If you actively hunt, have you given parts or a whole marine mammal to others in your community?

8. If you do not actively hunt, have you received a marine mammal for food or handicraft materials?

Please enter an 'other' value for this selection.

9. Do you or someone in your household manufacture handicrafts from marine mammal materials?

10. If yes, is it a form of income?

11. What types of materials and/or marine mammals have you handicraft with?

12. How many of each marine mammal species do you utilize annually?

Harbor Seal
Sea otter
Stellar sea lion
Dall's porpoise

13. Do you feel like there is enough public information on the rules/regulations of harvesting of marine mammals, utilizing materials for handicrafts, and the buying and selling of marine mammal materials?

Please enter an 'other' value for this selection.

14. Would you prefer having information about harvesting and utilizing marine mammals grouped together or divided individually by species?

Please enter an 'other' value for this selection.

15. What trends have you observed in participation in marine mammal hunting over the past 10 years?

Please enter an 'other' value for this selection.

16. What trends have you observed in marine mammal harvest over the past 10 years?

Please enter an 'other' value for this selection.

17. What trends have you observed in the abundance of sea otters over the past 10 years?

Please enter an 'other' value for this selection.

18. What trends have you observed in the abundance of Steller sea lions over the past 10 years?

Please enter an 'other' value for this selection.

19. What trends have you observed in the abundance of Harbor seals over the past 10 years?

Please enter an 'other' value for this selection.

20. What trends have you observed in the abundance of Dall’s porpoise over the past 10 years?

Please enter an 'other' value for this selection.

21. What trends have you observed in the abundance of Orcas over the past 10 years?

Please enter an 'other' value for this selection.

22. What trends have you observed in the abundance of Humpback whales over the past 10 years?

Please enter an 'other' value for this selection.

23. How would you think additional users would impact how you currently hunt/utilize marine mammals?

24. Would you like to see a co-management plan restrict or easily allow additional Chugach Native users (under 1/4 blood quantum) to hunt/utilize marine mammals from the Chugach Region?

Please enter an 'other' value for this selection.

25. Would you like to see a co-management plan restrict or easily allow additional Alaska Native users (not from the Chugach Region and under 1/4 blood quantum) to hunt/utilize marine mammals from the Chugach Region?

Please enter an 'other' value for this selection.

26. If there were to be additional harvesters, would you like to have an individual harvest limit on the individual species of marine mammals?

Please enter an 'other' value for this selection.

27. How would you define Alaska Native? (Click all that apply)

a person defined in the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (43 U.S.C. Section 1603 (85 Stat. 588)) as a citizen of the United States who is of one-fourth degree or more Alaska Indian, Eskimo, or Aleut blood or combination thereof.
Any Native who is adopted
in the absence of proof or the minimum blood quantum, any citizen of the United States who is regarded as an Alaska Native by a federally recognized Tribe and/or are a direct lineal descendant of an original Tribal Member.
Other - Write In

28. Any additional comments?