WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 -- The Senate Indian Affairs Committee issued the following testimony by Charles Menadelook, subsistence resource program director at Kawerak Inc., involving a hearing on Nov. 10, 2023, entitled "The Impact of the Historic Salmon Declines on the Health and Well-Being of Alaska Native Communities Along Arctic, Yukon, and Kuskokwim Rivers":

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Thank you, committee members, for inviting me and giving me the opportunity to testify today.