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LESSON TWO-ACTIVITY FOUR: What is Personal Use Fishing?

Content Objectives: The students will be able to give a basic definition of personal use fishing.
The students will become familiar with different personal use fisheries.
The students will learn how to read and understand an official state memorandum.

Key Vocabulary: dip netting, set gill netting, regulatory definition, statutory definition, Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA), memorandum

Supplementary Materials:
Southcentral Regulations Worksheet
Southeast Regulations Worksheet
State of Alaska Department of Law memorandum

Resources: ADFG-Alaska Department of Fish and Game, USFWS-United States Fish and Wildlife Service

Books: Subsistence Management in Alaska Question and Answer Handbook
Subsistence Management Information Program

Website Wandering:
1. ADF&G Personal use Fisheries Website
2. National Public Radio Archive (related site)
3. Alaska Outdoors Directory Forums (related site)

Activity Sequence:
Part One-What is Personal Use Fishing?
Have the students open the first listed website and allow them to spend some time exploring the site.

Also, have the students return to the Subsistence Management in Alaska Question and Answer Handbook (page 30). They looked at this definition of personal use fishing briefly in Lesson Two-Activity One (L2-A1).

As a class, write a good definition of personal use fishing. Have the students write the definition in their fisheries notebooks.

Part Two-State Personal Use Fisheries
During Lesson Two-Activity Three (L2-A3) students looked at all of the sport fishing regulations for the state. They also include regulations and information regarding personal use fisheries.

Have the students open the Southcentral Alaska regulations (pages 16-18) and answer the questions on the provided worksheet.

Then have the students open the Southeast Alaska regulations (pages 28-30) and answer the questions on the provided worksheet.

Part Three-A Legal Memorandum
Have the students read the State of Alaska Department of Law memorandum. Have the students answer the questions on the provided worksheet.

Part Four-What you Learned
Before wrapping up the lesson have students return to their KWL charts. In the space provided they should list at least three things they Learned about personal use fishing during the course of the activity.

Wrap-up Discussion: How has joint management affected the way the laws regarding personal use fisheries are interpreted? Is it reasonable to assume the sharing of fish or shellfish taken under personal use fishing regulations is unenforceable?

SIOP FEATURES:

Preparation	Scaffolding	Grouping Options
___ Adaptation of Content	___ Modeling	___ Whole class
___ Links to Background	___ Guided practice	___ Small groups
___ Links to Past Learning	___ Independent practice	___ Partners
___ Strategies incorporated	___ Comprehensible input	___ Independent

Integration of Processes	Application	Assessment
___ Reading	___ Hands-on	___ Individual
___ Writing	___ Meaningful	___ Group
___ Speaking	___ Linked to objectives	___ Written
___ Listening	___ Promotes engagement	___ Oral

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Text by Beverly Chmielarczyk
Last modified 20 August, 2009

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