Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 32 - Dungeness Crab Fishery › Article 1 - Registration Areas › 5 AAC 32.020 - Dungeness crab area registration

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) In addition to
				  the requirements of
				  5 AAC 39.120 and unless otherwise specified in this
				  chapter, a vessel owner, or owner's agent, shall validly register a vessel to
				  be used to fish for Dungeness crab in a Dungeness crab registration area or a
				  Dungeness crab registration district before using that vessel to take Dungeness
				  crab in that registration area or registration district or in the exclusive
				  economic zone adjacent to the registration area or registration
				  district.
(b) The Dungeness crab
				  registration year is January 1 through December 31.
(c) The department shall issue a registration
				  certificate to a vessel that is to be used to fish for Dungeness crab if the
				  vessel owner, or the owner's agent, completes and submits to the department a
				  registration form obtained from the local representative of the department, and
				  if the vessel is licensed and otherwise complies with AS 16 and with this
				  title. The vessel owner, or the owner's agent, shall sign the registration
				  certificate when it is issued, shall keep it on board the vessel and
				  immediately available at all times during fishing operations, and shall show it
				  upon the request of a peace officer of the state.
(d) In a Dungeness crab registration area or
				  district, where a tank inspection is required, a vessel registration is not
				  valid until the vessel has successfully completed a tank inspection. A tank
				  inspection is not successfully completed unless, at the time of inspection, a
				  holder of a valid CFEC interim use or limited entry permit issued for the
				  registration area or district for which the vessel is being registered is on
				  board the vessel and the holder of the permit has the permit in possession. A
				  successfully completed tank inspection validates the vessel's registration for
				  a registration area or district. If a tank inspection is not required in a
				  registration area or district, compliance with (c) of this section validates
				  the vessel registration.
(e) The
				  department may cancel a vessel registration for a registration area or district
				  for the purpose of allowing the vessel to fish for Dungeness crab in another
				  registration area or district, except that once a vessel has been inspected for
(1) a superexclusive registration area or a
				  superexclusive registration district, the department may not cancel the vessel
				  registration in order to allow a person to use the vessel to fish for Dungeness
				  crab in another registration area or registration district;
(2) a nonexclusive registration area or
				  nonexclusive registration district, the department may not cancel the vessel
				  registration in order to allow a person to use the vessel to fish for Dungeness
				  crab in a superexclusive registration area or in a superexclusive registration
				  district.