The judgment against Carla and James Vernon Sigler is the largest awarded in an Alaska elder abuse case, officials say. Sigler was just re-elected as treasurer of her home county.
Court hears more arguments from Tribe, state on herring fishery
Posted by Katherine Rose | Jan 20, 2021
2019: STA employees sorted and weighed a 700 pound truckload of herring eggs on hemlock branches to distribute to Sitka elders. (KCAW/ Enrique Pérez de la Rosa)
A Juneau Superior Court judge will decide whether the state has met its constitutional obligation for subsistence, in the management of the Sitka Sound Sac Roe Herring Fishery. The court heard oral arguments on January 14 from attorneys representing the Sitka Tribe of Alaska, the state, and commercial fishing interests. The outcome could give Sitka’s Indigenous population a larger role in determining how herring are shared among user groups in the future.