Case Summary Citation
Alaska Dep’t of Fish and Game v. Federal Subsistence Bd., 139 F.4th 773 (9th Cir. 2025).
Abstract
A subsistence hunt in Kake, Alaska, during the COVID-19
pandemic sparked a lawsuit from the State of Alaska Department of Fish
and Game challenging the authority of the Federal Subsistence Board to
open the hunt. This lawsuit is a recent addition to a long history of the
State of Alaska’s resistance to federal enforcement of the Alaska National
Interest Lands Conservation Act provision establishing priority for rural
subsistence users. The Ninth Circuit ultimately affirmed the Federal
Subsistence Board’s authority to open the subsistence hunt.
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