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The following are court cases that affect you . Some deal directry with dipnetting and some with subsistence.
if that dosn't work try this one
Hughes vs Oklahoma
a
case on ownership of fish and game. overturns ownership
established in klepp
"A State does not stand in the same
position as the owner of a private game preserve and it is pure
fantasy to talk of `owning' wild fish, birds, or animals. Neither
the States nor the Federal
Government, any more than a hopeful fisherman or hunter, has
title to these creatures until they are reduced to possession by
skillful capture. . . . The `ownership' language of cases such as
those cited by appellant must be understood as no more than a
19th-century legal fiction expressing `the importance to its
people that a State have power to preserve and regulate the
exploitation of an important resource.' Toomer v. Witsell, 334
U.S., at 402 . . . . Under modern analysis, the question is
simply whether the State has exercised its police power in
conformity with the federal laws and Constitution." [436
U.S. 371, 406]
The wildlife conservation of Alaska paper -Legal laws and cases affecting subsistence management of Alaska's resources.
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