Management Partnerships

Fisheries stewardship requires collaboration between many groups, organizations, and agencies. KRITFC is proud to work closely with entities who operate in the Kuskokwim Region, Alaska, and nationally to achieve the goals of a unified co-management structure on the Kuskokwim and of gravel-to-gravel Arctic-Yukon-Kuskokwim salmon protections. These entities include:

The Arctic-Yukon-Kuskokwim Tribal Consortium (AYKTC) is comprised of the Association of Village Council Presidents, Kuskokwim River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission, and Yukon River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission, together representing 98 federally recognized Tribes across Alaska. The AYKTC’s mission is to protect, restore, and conserve the health and biodiversity of the Bering Sea and North Pacific ecosystems, rivers to seas, with a focus on the health of wild salmon to sustain our Alaska Native ways of life for this and future generations. Salmon People is an initiative of the AYKTC.

AVCP works in partnership to provide community development, education, social services, culturally relevant programs and advocacy for the people and Tribes of the AVCP Region, to promote self-determination, protection and enhancement of our cultural and traditional values.

The Kuskokwim River Salmon Management Working Group (KRSMWG) was formed in 1988 by the Alaska Board of Fisheries (BOF) in response to requests from stakeholders in the Kuskokwim Area who sought a more active role in the management of salmon fishery resources. The Working Group is made up of 14 member seats representing elders, subsistence fishermen, processors, commercial fishermen, sport fishermen, KRITFC, member at large, federal subsistence regional advisory committees, and ADF&G.

TCC’s Fisheries Program works to continually build educational capacity and expertise in fisheries science throughout the TCC region. Their goals are to utilize western science and Traditional Knowledge to enable sustainable fisheries, and to be advocates for fishing and hunting rights throughout the TCC region. Four Kuskokwim River communities fall within the TCC region: McGrath, Takotna, Nikolai, and Telida.

The goal of the Indigenizing Salmon Management is to use a deeply participatory approach to document the breadth and depth of Indigenous values, knowledge, management and governance systems connected to salmon across Alaska and to use this wisdom to improve the current salmon management systems in Alaska.

YDNWR is headquartered in Bethel. In the Kuskokwim watershed, YDNWR extends from the river mouth up to Aniak. USFWS employees at YDNWR co-manage Kuskokwim salmon fisheries with KRITFC under our 2016 MOU. In addition to in-season management, USFWS-YDNWR partners with KRITFC on a number of fishery research projects, including operation of the Kwethluk River weir and providing aerial boat count information for the CBHM program.

YRITFC is a tribal consortium representing member Tribal Governments and First Nations united in protecting the health and wellbeing of our tribal members, our future generations, and all Alaskans and Canadians who rely upon the health of the Yukon River and the fish. The Commission consists of current Commissioners from each authorizing member Tribal Government and First Nation. The Commission’s ten member YRITFC Executive Council, representing different geographic units in the watershed, guides the operations of the Commission.

BECOME A PARTNER

If you would like to partner with us, please get in touch with us at info@kritfc.org.