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logo 11/26/2024 11:33:43 PM     
The big hunting and fishing changes tied up in Maines tribal sovereignty talks 
By Billy Kobin US Source: bangordailynews 12/13/2023
Billy Kobin
Credit: Ben McCanna/Portland Press Herald via AP
Three years after a task force released recommendations on improving Maine’s 1980 settlement with Native American tribes, the Legislature and Gov. Janet Mills have not made several of the changes aimed at fishing, hunting and land use.
 

While various suggestions have not received much publicity, the changes would affect not only tribes but also other Mainers on tribal land. There would be major deregulations of hunting and fishing. One change would allow tribes to favor members over nonmembers in enforcing fishing and hunting regulations, a power that tribes in other states currently have.

 
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