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Post by Chuck on Feb 23, 2005 15:14:20 GMT -5
Chicken! Just kidding' it's a good heavy duty meat a lot of grease. I'm not all that fond of it, but its free.
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Post by Anataq on Feb 23, 2005 18:09:19 GMT -5
Hey now, I am just expressing frusteration on the part of the decisions made in the 80's where Chuck is at. Where we are at in Unit 9 we don't have to worry about it, we qualify for subsistence in our area, and it is open to moose, bear and just about everything else, (except seal and otter unless you are native) That said I will always follow the law, as best as I can reasonably understand it- Let me clarify: there are so many codes..(laws) that often following one breaks another. So as far as I can read and uderstand them anyway, I will follow the law. That said, hunting and fishing regulations are easy to follow and are very clear so far as I can read, so it won't be to hard to follow the law there. I am also aware that taking game for ones survival or protection in Alaska is quite legal, and I'll agree that the whole affair might get rather sticky if it happened more than once.
I have heard many stories though of folks who have just flat disappeared in the bush, so my question is how do they inforce the hunting regulations in the bush. Now I can understand how people bringing backing the trophies or meat out of the bush and into town for transport back to the lower 48 might easily be identified, but the rest???
Still though we will follow the law.
-Anataq
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Post by smwon on Feb 23, 2005 22:02:14 GMT -5
Hey now, I am just expressing frusteration on the part of the decisions made in the 80's where Chuck is at. I have heard many stories though of folks who have just flat disappeared in the bush, so my question is how do they inforce the hunting regulations in the bush. Now I can understand how people bringing backing the trophies or meat out of the bush and into town for transport back to the lower 48 might easily be identified, but the rest??? Still though we will follow the law. -Anataq I didn't mean to sound like I was attacking you Ryan... You know that is a good question... what does happen to them and how would they enforce the codes in the bush? |
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Post by Anataq on Feb 26, 2005 19:07:57 GMT -5
Oh no problem Smwon, we are pals anyway ;D Shouldn't have posted my question the way I did anyway, I appologize. Still though I am curious how laws are enforced in the bush, is it kind of "Marshal Law" out there?
-Anataq
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Post by Kristianna on Feb 27, 2005 7:33:11 GMT -5
Well, I hope that a game warden or park ranger (what-have-you) would *not* be able to shoot a person on sight if they were doing something illegal. Perhaps if that illegal thing was pointing a gun at the warden or park ranger, but not for anything else. I have found this discussion to be fascinating. Thank you all for your input.  Also, does qualifying for subsistence mean that you can hunt year round? Or is it just a wider range of time than the typical hunting season? |
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Post by Anataq on Feb 27, 2005 15:58:01 GMT -5
I shouldn't even say that we qualify for subsistence, let me clarify: there are subsistence use areas around us, both Federal and State. There are different criteria in order to qualify for Federal or State Subsistence priority. Subsistence regulations are different from area to area and do not necessarily extend the seasons. Subsistence users are given priortiy in areas which might otherwise be closed to sport or commercial fish or game harvesting. Subsistence use is quite complicated as I am just now finding out. Even if we are not considered subsitence users Pam and I will be able to hunt and fish on sport lisc. where we are at, and most fish and game is available. Check out this site for more info: www.subsistmgtinfo.org/index.htm-Anataq |
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Post by Kristianna on Feb 27, 2005 17:24:01 GMT -5
Is set netting the same things as dip netting? I do think that cheechako doesn't even begin to describe me.  |
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Post by Chuck on Feb 27, 2005 22:37:06 GMT -5
Is set netting the same things as dip netting? You know way more about Alaska living than I ever did before I moved here If you go to "Bush Living" and click "Hunting/Fishing", Chuck has a post called Fishing Alaska Style. He posted a picture of our set net with lots of salmon. The commercial nets are MUCH bigger. At low tide, we put out the net, anchored at both ends. Then we check the net again at the next low tide. A dip net is a round net on the end of a pole. There are variations in nets and technique, but you pretty much hold the net in the water, then dip the fish out when they hit your net. Hope that helps Jenny Alaska HOMESTEADING Journal |
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Post by hollybear72 on Mar 15, 2006 19:51:36 GMT -5
I live in on the kenai peninsula I have a herring site and my husband is a set netter. Fishing is great fun.
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Post by Freeholdfarm on Jul 10, 2006 0:26:45 GMT -5
I've eaten porcupine, and it was good -- tasted like meat, LOL!
When I was little we lived on a 160 acre homestead on the Clearwater Lake, just outside of Delta Junction. We had a Lab who was always coming home with porcupine quills in his nose (stupid dog!). My brothers and I were getting a little PO'd at having to constantly be pulling quills out of the dog's nose, so when we actually found the porcupine in the woods near our house one day, we decided to kill it (porcupines are protected, for anyone who doesn't know -- but I was only nine, and my brothers were younger, so I guess we didn't know, or care). We ended up making spears and stabbing the poor thing to death. Then one of my brothers helped me skin it, and cook the meat, but he wouldn't help eat it, LOL! It was good, though. And the dog didn't come home with quills in his nose anymore after that!
Kathleen
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