Rare joint Board of Fish, Game committee meeting this week

 The Alaska Board of Fisheries (BOF) and Board of Game (BOG) will convene a teleconference meeting of its Joint Board Committee (committee) at 11 a.m., December 21. The purpose of the committee meeting is to review and recommend to both boards the necessity of holding a full Joint Board meeting during the 2018/2019 meeting cycle.

The two boards have not held a joint meeting in several years and a recent BOF and BOG meetings, the value of a joint meeting was discussed at length.

 The meeting will stream live over the Internet on the Joint Board website at http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=process.jointboard.

 Physical meeting locations are:

• ADF&G Headquarters, 1255 W. 8^th Street, Juneau, Commissioner’s 2^nd Floor Conference Room
• ADF&G Anchorage, 333 Raspberry Road, Anchorage, Aerie Conference Room (2^nd Floor)
• ADF&G Fairbanks, 1300 College Road, Fairbanks, Ptarmigan Conference Room

 Committee meetings are open to the public. A meeting agenda and other meeting materials will be available on the Joint Board meeting information website at www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=process.jbmeetinginfo.

 The committee is seeking written comments from the public on the meeting purpose. Written comments may be mailed to Boards Support Section at P.O. Box 115526, Juneau, AK  99811-5526, emailed to dfg.bof.comments@alaska.gov (PDF only), faxed to (907) 465-6094, or entered online at http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=process.jointboard. Written comments must be received by Tuesday, December 19.

 If you are a person with a disability who needs a special accommodation to join in this public meeting, please contact the Boards Support Section at (907) 465-4110 by 5:00pm on Monday, December 18, 2017, to make any necessary arrangements.

 For more information about the meetings, contact Glenn Haight, glenn.haight@alaska.gov, (907) 465-6095 or Kristy Tibbles, kristy.tibbles@alaska.gov, (907) 465-6098.