We
are fishermen. ANCSA corporations, village councils, boroughs and cities, community
associations, individuals. We are your neighbors. The Gulf of Alaska's small coastal
fisheries-dependent communities are facing their greatest challenges.
To
address these challenges you should
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WHAT
IS GOA?
The Gulf of Alaska is
a BIG arc, with its communities occupying a narrow strip of coastline and islands
extending from the Dixon Entrance to the southeastern coast of the Aleutian Islands.
The
Gulf of Alaska is estimated to be 12.5% of the total U.S. continental shelf.
WHERE
WE HAVE BEEN
Alaska's coastal
communities have historically been marine-dependent.
Things
are not much different now. The economic survival of the Gulf of Alaska's communities
is dependent on the quality of access to marine resources.
There
has been a dramatic erosion of ability for communities to make their living from
the sea. This erosion has occurred for a variety of reasons including environmental,
political, legal and biological changes which have had an enormous negative cumulative
affect.
The GOAC3 exist because
too many marine/fisheries decisions are made without consideration of socio-economic
impacts and without adequate consultation with communities.
We
exist because someone needs to be looking at the "big picture" with
consideration of the impacts of individual and collective actions.
We
exist because the founding members knew it was something that had to be done right
now.
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WHAT
WE ARE ABOUT
