One possibility is that a working group will be formed to study the amount of customary trade happening on the river, a recommendation from both the Western and Eastern Interior Regional Advisory Councils.

Following the Federal Subsistence Board meeting in Anchorage, there will be a series of several other meetings that will help managers compose a management strategy for the 2011 fishing season. The Yukon River Drainage Fisheries Association will hold a meeting in Mountain Village in February, followed by three different regional advisory council meetings to gather recommendations from fishermen. There will also be a Yukon River Panel meeting between U.S. and Canadian officials in the second half of March that will establish the number of king salmon that will be required to reach Canada as part of an international salmon treaty. Those meetings will help set some "sideboards" for management strategies for the comign season, Bue said.