Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement Management of the Subsistence Harvest of Northern Fur Seals on St. Paul Island, Alaska

NMFS was petitioned by the Aleut Community of St. Paul Island, Tribal Government to the change the northern fur seal subsistence harvest regulations. NMFS is analyzing the potential direct, indirect, and cumulative impacts on the human environment of the alternative approaches to managing the northern fur seal subsistence harvest on St. Paul Island. The petitioned changes to the harvest regulations fewer regulations and greater reliance on non-regulatory restrictions to allow a longer subsistence harvest period, the use of firearms, and removing the prohibition to harvest pups for subsistence purposes.