Alaska’s Speaker of the House Mike Chenault has joined the groups urging Board of Fisheries members to consider holding the 2017 Upper Cook Inlet Finfish meeting on the Kenai Peninsula.
Spkr. Chenault: “It’s important to the Kenai Peninsula for folks that are invested in the sports and commercial communities of the peninsula to be able to go to the meeting and be able to voice their opinions without having to go all the way to Anchorage or all the way to the valley at considerable costs, to get their opinions put before the board.”
As we’ve previously reported, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game Anchorage, advisory committee is encouraging the Board of Fisheries to move the 2017 UCI meeting to the peninsula.
Kenai City Manager Rick Koch was at that Anchorage meeting and says advisory committee members felt the Board of Fisheries’ process will be enhanced by including more members of affected communities.
ADF&G’s Kenai and Soldotna Advisory Committee passed a resolution last year in support of having the 2017 meeting on the Kenai Peninsula. The last time it was held on the central peninsula was 1999.
On December 2-8, 2015, the Board of Fisheries will consider changing the location of the 2017 UCI to Kenai.
The deadline to submit comments for the upcoming considertion is November 19, click here to submit a public comment to the Board of Fisheries.
