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Alaska High Court Says Tribal Fisher Subject To State Laws
Law360 (July 28, 2021, 8:46 PM EDT) The Alaska Supreme Court upheld a $20,000 fine against a Metlakatla Indian Community citizen who knowingly violated multiple commercial fishing laws as a protest, ruling that treaty-based fishing rights do not exempt him from state commercial fishing regulations.
John Scudero has for decades conducted protest fishing as part of an effort to support the Metlakatla Community s fishing rights outside its designated 3,000-foot zone, exercising the tribe s historic rights and free speech.
His current transgression happened in 2014 when he violated three state laws fishing without a permit, fishing in closed waters and unlawfully possessing fish but Scudero argued that the.
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