Alaska Subsistence Harvest of Birds and Eggs, 2018, Alaska Migratory Bird Co-Management Council

Download or read book Alaska Subsistence Harvest of Birds and Eggs, 2018, Alaska Migratory Bird Co-Management Council written by Liliana C. Naves and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report presents subsistence harvest estimates of birds and their eggs in Alaska for the data year 2018. Data were collected through the Harvest Assessment Program of the Alaska Migratory Bird Co-Management Council. This program relies on collaboration among the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, and regional and local Alaska Native organizations. Information obtained by this program is used to inform subsistence harvest regulations, to document customary and traditional uses of migratory birds in Alaska, and to support sustainable harvest opportunities and conservation of birds. Participation by communities and households in the harvest survey is voluntary. In 2018, the survey covered five migratory bird management regions: Bristol Bay, Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, Bering Strait-Norton Sound, North Slope, and Interior Alaska. These regions represent more than 90% of the total subsistence bird harvest in Alaska and are used as an index to the Alaska-wide harvest. The sampling design treats regions as strata and uses two-stage sampling in each region. Within regions, communities are selected by systematic random sampling. Within communities, households are selected by simple random sampling. Harvest reported by surveyed communities is extrapolated to non-surveyed communities in the same region. Data are reported at the region and survey-wide levels. This report also includes harvest estimates for the Cordova spring bird and egg harvest in the Gulf of Alaska-Cook Inlet region, where a mail survey is administered to all households that register to participate in that harvest.