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tion proposals. With these tools, the management councils would be 

 able to deal with any conservation issue that might arise. 



The Chairman. I notice you mention the Yukon Delta Fisheries 

 Management and the Coastal Villages Fishing Cooperative. Do you 

 also represent those groups? 



Mr. Jemewouk. Yes, sir. I was elected chairman of WAFDA. We 

 had these representatives get together and form this organization, 

 and I was elected as chairman, and we list all those as members 

 to this organization. 



There are six groups that participate in the CDQ program and 

 they are all qualified under regulations that were developed, and 

 these are all villages that sit on the Bering Sea coastline. 



The Chairman. Norton Sound, Aleutian? 



Mr. Jemewouk. Norton Sound, the Yukon Delta. 



The Chairman. Central Bering? 



Mr. Jemewouk. Central Bering Sea, Coastal Villages, Bristol 

 Bay, and the Aleutians. 



The Chairman. Well, that really does what was intended by the 

 Magnuson Act, to get all the folks with various interests rep- 

 resented, working for the general good, the general welfare. It 

 seems like you are doing that up here. We just want to make sure 

 that what is working now is built on and extended and, as you say, 

 probably made a permanent part of the Magnuson Act. 



I know this panel would want that. We will find out from some 

 of the other panels whether they want to try to write in a perma- 

 nent provision for community development quota procedures. 



Mr. Jemewouk. I would just like to thank you for allowing me 

 to testify. I think I can provide you with some information. 



The Chairman. I thank you for coming all the way, and we 

 apologize for being a little late. We thank you very much, we want 

 to thank this panel, and we are going to move now to the next 

 panel: Andrew Golia, Harvey Samuelsen, and Myra Olsen. 



STATEMENT OF MYRA OLSEN, VICE PRESIDENT, RURAL 

 ALASKA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM 



Ms. Olsen. My name is Myra Olsen. I live in the village of 

 Egegik, AK, and I am a Bristol Bay drift gillnetter, an Alaskan Na- 

 tive, and I am born and raised in Dillingham, and I am glad you 

 are here in this beautiful country to see a little bit of what the real 

 world is like. 



I serve on the Bristol Bay Native Association board of directors, 

 Rural Alaska Resources Board and vice president of Rural CAP, 

 which is a statewide organization whose mission is the elimination 

 of poverty in rural Alaska. 



The impoverished communities on the western coast of the Ber- 

 ing Sea are finally participating in a successful CDQ program that 

 is making strides in enabling these communities to help them- 

 selves. This CDQ program needs to be established in statute and 

 expanded into other species besides pollock, such as yellowfin sole, 

 pacific cod, and crab. 



The North Pacific Management Council needs to keep the Alas- 

 kan boats to manage — votes, excuse me, that is a typo, to manage 

 Alaskan resources. The majority votes need to be kept Alaskan to 

 protect our interests. The Washington/Oregon seats are owned by 



