IPCoMM Board of Directors Meeting
October 6-7, 2010
IPCoMM Board of Directors will meet October 6-7, 2010 in Nome, Alaska. Focuses of meeting will be IPCoMM student program; Marine Mammal Protection Act Amendments; Native handicraft issue and meaning of “significantly altered”; IPCoMM commissioner reports; recent decisions and actions of the Bilateral Polar Bear Commission; introduction to NOAA Marine Mammal Co-management Workshop in December 2010; report from Descendants’ Issue Committee. Elections of new officers will be held.

NOAA Marine Mammal Co-management Workshop hosted by IPCoMM
December 1-2, 2010
IPCoMM staff is arranging a Workshop on Marine Mammal Co-management by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) on December 1-2, 2010 to be held at the Hilton Hotel in Anchorage, for all IPCoMM members, including its observer member AEWC, and 11 marine mammal subsistence hunters. This workshop will provide a means for NOAA/NMFS to work directly with IPCoMM and workshop participants to help build a foundation for a more productive relationship in the future. Development of written guidance and policy for (1) monitoring the subsistence harvest of marine mammals, and (2) administrative support of co-management activities will take place. Professional workshop coordinator Dr. Lynne Curry will facilitate the workshop.