{"id":3011,"date":"2013-04-16T16:25:36","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T00:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/?p=3011"},"modified":"2013-04-16T16:25:36","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T00:25:36","slug":"update-on-sb-60-regarding-sea-otters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/?p=3011","title":{"rendered":"Update on SB 60 Regarding Sea Otters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SB 60, the legislation I introduced to provide an incentive payment for the legal harvest of sea otters by Alaska Natives, was held in the Senate Judiciary Committee until next session. During the interim, I intend to work with the state and federal stakeholders, native organizations and interested Alaskans on drafting a substitute bill. I\u2019m willing to consider any options available to the state to slow down the rapid growth of the sea otter population in Southeast which is having a disastrous impact on our shellfisheries. My ultimate goal is to have the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service take a more active management role. While I was in Washington D.C. for an Energy Council meeting, I had the opportunity to talk with Gary Frazer, the Assistant Director of Endangered Species with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. I urged him to instruct his agency to review their sea otter management plan for Alaska and work cooperatively with the state to slow the rapid growth of sea otters.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"Senator Stedman and Gary Frazer, Assistant Director of Endangered Species with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alaskasenate.org\/stedman\/newsletters\/041613_1.png\" alt=\"Senator Stedman and Gary Frazer, Assistant Director of Endangered Species with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service\" width=\"584\" height=\"413\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senator Stedman and Gary Frazer, Assistant Director of Endangered Species with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SB 60, the legislation I introduced to provide an incentive payment for the legal harvest of sea otters by Alaska Natives, was held in the Senate Judiciary Committee until next session. During the interim, I intend to work with the state and federal stakeholders, native organizations and interested Alaskans on drafting a substitute bill. I\u2019m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3011"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3026,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3011\/revisions\/3026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}