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Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 69 - North Slope Area › 5 AAC 69.155 - North Slope Area Wild Arctic Grayling Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) By employing a
				conservative harvest regime, the department shall manage wild Arctic grayling
				populations in the North Slope Area for long-term sustained yield. Following
				sustained yield principles, the department may manage wild Arctic grayling
				fisheries to provide or maintain fishery qualities that are desired by sport
				anglers.
(b) In a sport fishery
				covered by this management plan, the commissioner, by emergency order, may take
				one or more of the management actions specified in this subsection if there are
				conservation or biological concerns for the sustainability of the fishery or
				for a stock harvested by that fishery. The concerns must arise from harvest,
				effort, or catch data for that fishery which has been derived from statewide
				harvest survey data, on-site creel survey data, stock status data, stock
				exploitation rates, or from inferential comparisons with other fisheries. The
				management actions are as follows:
(1) reduce
				the bag and possession limits;
(2)
				reduce fishing time;
(3) allowing
				only catch-and-release fishing;
(4)
				modify methods and means of harvest.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 69 - North Slope Area › 5 AAC 69.165 - North Slope Area Stocked Water Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The department
				shall manage stocked waters in the North Slope Area in order to meet public
				demand for diverse fishing opportunities. The department may manage fisheries
				to provide or maintain qualities that are desired by sport anglers. The
				department shall manage the stocked waters according to one of three management
				approaches. The management approaches are the
(1) regional management approach;
(2) conservative management approach;
				and
(3) special management
				approach.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 69 - North Slope Area › 5 AAC 69.995 - Definition of "catch-and-release"

Current through May 31, 2024
For the purposes of this chapter, "catch-and-release" means
				  that the sport angler may fish for a species of finfish, but may not retain or
				  possess that species of finfish.
Authority:
AS
					 16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 70 - Northwestern Area › 5 AAC 70.005 - Description of the Northwestern Area

Current through May 31, 2024
The Northwestern Area consists of all waters draining into
				  and including the Bering Sea, the Chukchi Sea, Kotzebue Sound, and Norton Sound
				  south of Point Hope and north of Point Romanof.
Authority:
AS
					 16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 70 - Northwestern Area › 5 AAC 70.011 - Seasons and bag, possession, and size limits for the Northwestern Area

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Except as
				otherwise specified in this section or through an emergency order issued under
				AS
				16.05.060, sport fishing is permitted year
				round in the waters of the Northwestern Area.
(b) Except as otherwise specified in (c) of
				this section, the following are the general bag, possession, and size limits
				for finfish and shellfish in the waters of the Northwestern Area:
(1) king salmon 20 inches or greater in
				length: the bag and possession limit is one fish;
(2) salmon, other than king salmon: the bag
				and possession limit is 10 fish, with no size limit;
(3) Arctic char/Dolly Varden and lake trout:
(A) in all lakes: the bag and possession
				limit is two fish of all species combined, with no size limit;
(B) in all flowing waters and salt waters:
				the bag and possession limit is 10 fish of all species combined, of which only
				two fish may be 20 inches or greater in length, and of which only two fish may
				be lake trout;
(4)
				Arctic grayling: the bag and possession limit is five fish, with no size
				limit;
(5) sheefish: the bag and
				possession limit is 10 fish, with no size limit;
(6) northern pike: the bag and possession
				limit is 10 fish, with no size limit;
(7) burbot: the bag and possession limit is
				15 fish, with no size limit;
(8)
				halibut: may be taken only from February 1 through December 31; the bag limit
				is two fish and the possession limit is four fish, with no size
				limit;
(9) Dungeness crab: the bag
				and possession limit is 12 male crab, with a 6.5 inches minimum carapace
				width;
(10) blue and red king crab:
				the bag and possession limit is six male crab; the size limit for blue king
				crab is five inches minimum carapace width; the size limit for red king crab is
				4.75 inches minimum carapace width; a shellfish harvest recording form as
				specified in
				5 AAC 75.016 is required;
(11) Tanner crab: the bag and possession
				limit for
C. bairdi
and
C. opilio
Tanner crab,
				in combination, is 12 male crab; the size limit for
C.
				bairdi
Tanner crab is 5.5 inches minimum carapace width; the size limit
				for
C. opilio
Tanner crab is 3.1 inches minimum carapace
				width;
(12) finfish and shellfish
				species that are not specified in this section: there are no bag, possession,
				or size limits.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 70 - Northwestern Area › 5 AAC 70.022 - Waters; seasons; bag, possession, and size limits in the Arctic-Yukon-Kuskokwim Area (Repealed)

Current through May 31, 2024
As of Register 170, July 2004, the substance of former
					 5 AAC 70.022 appears in the applicable portions of
					 5 AAC 70.008,
					 5 AAC 70.011,
					 5 AAC 70.013,
					 5 AAC 70.015, and
					 5 AAC 70.017.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 70 - Northwestern Area › 5 AAC 70.023 - Special provisions for methods and means in the Arctic-Yukon-Kuskokwim Area (Repealed)

Current through May 31, 2024
As of Register 170, July 2004, the substance of former
					 5 AAC 70.023(b) appears in
					 5 AAC 70.013, the substance of former
					 5 AAC 70.023(c) appears in
					 5 AAC 70.015, and the substance of former
					 5 AAC 70.023(d) appears in
					 5 AAC 70.017.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 70 - Northwestern Area › 5 AAC 70.024 - Harvest record required; annual limits (Repealed)

Current through May 31, 2024
In Register 209, April 2014, the provisions of
					 5 AAC 70.024 were repealed because the substance of the
					 harvest record provisions for king salmon appears in
					 5 AAC 75.006 and for shellfish appears in
					 5 AAC 75.016, which apply on a statewide basis, and the
					 annual limit provisions for king salmon in the Unalakleet River drainage and
					 the requirement for a shellfish harvest recording form appear in
					 5 AAC 70.011.
Before Register 133, April 1995, when this chapter was
					 reformatted, the substance of
					 5 AAC 70.024 appeared in
					 5 AAC 70.025. Before Register 122, July 1992, the
					 substance of
					 5 AAC 70.025 appeared in
					 5 AAC 70.020. As of Register 122, the regulations
					 attorney relocated the provision to a more appropriate location as a separate
					 section, 5 AAC 70.025. The history of the
					 provision in its former location is not reflected in the history note for
					 5 AAC 70.025.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 70 - Northwestern Area › 5 AAC 70.025 - King crab harvest recording form (Repealed)

Current through May 31, 2024
Before Register 122, July 1992, the substance of
					 5 AAC 70.025 appeared in
					 5 AAC 70.020. As of Register 122, the regulations
					 attorney relocated the provision to a more appropriate location as separate
					 section 5 AAC 70.025. The history of the
					 provision in its former location is not reflected in the history note for
					 5 AAC 70.025.
Publisher's note:
See
					 5 AAC 70.024 and notes thereto.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 70 - Northwestern Area › 5 AAC 70.030 - Methods, means, and general provisions - Finfish

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Unless
				otherwise provided in this chapter or by an emergency order issued under
				AS
				16.05.060, the provisions in this section
				apply to finfish sport fishing in the Northwestern Area.
(b) In all waters, multiple hooks with a gap
				between the point and shank greater than one-half inch may be used for taking
				fish other than salmon.
(c) A spear
				or bow and arrow may be used to take suckers and burbot. Unless prohibited in
				5 AAC 70.011, northern pike and whitefish, except
				sheefish, may be speared by a person who is completely submerged at any time,
				and, from September 1 through April 30, may be taken by spear or bow and
				arrow.
(d) Repealed
				5/19/2004.
(e) Repealed
				5/19/2004.
Authority:
AS
					 16.05.060
AS
					 16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 70 - Northwestern Area › 5 AAC 70.035 - Methods, means, and general provisions - Shellfish

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Unless
				otherwise provided in this chapter or by an emergency order issued under
				AS
				16.05.060, the provisions in this section
				apply to shellfish sport fishing in the Northwestern Area.
(b) The operator of a commercially licensed
				and registered shrimp fishing vessel who is using the vessel in the sport-fish
				taking of shrimp during a closed commercial shrimp season or within a closed
				commercial shrimp district or section may not possess more than 500 pounds of
				shrimp on board the vessel.
(c)
				Only male crab may be taken.
(d)
				Until a crab is being processed for human consumption, no person may mutilate
				or otherwise disfigure the crab in a manner that would prevent the
				determination of the minimum size restriction.
(e) A person may not take or possess
				shellfish that is smaller than the applicable minimum legal size limit set out
				in 5 AAC 70.011.
(f) The bag and possession limits for
				sport-harvested shellfish are not in addition to those allowed under
				subsistence or personal use fishing regulations.
Authority:
AS
					 16.05.060
AS
					 16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 70 - Northwestern Area › 5 AAC 70.040 - Northwestern Area Wild Lake Trout Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Notwithstanding
				the other provisions in this chapter regarding lake trout, the department shall
				manage wild lake trout populations in the Northwestern Area by employing a
				conservative harvest regime and by maintaining harvest below the maximum
				sustained yield level. Following sustained yield principles, the department may
				manage wild lake trout fisheries to provide or maintain fishery qualities that
				are desired by sport anglers.
(b)
				In a sport fishery covered by this management plan, the commissioner, by
				emergency order, may take one or more of the management actions specified in
				this subsection if there is a conservation or biological concern for the
				sustainability of the fishery or for a stock harvested by that fishery. The
				concern must arise from harvest, effort, or catch data for that fishery which
				has been derived from statewide harvest survey data, on-site creel survey data,
				stock status data, stock exploitation rates, or from inferential comparisons
				with other fisheries. The management actions are as follows:
(1) reduce bag and possession
				limits;
(2) reduce fishing
				time;
(3) allow only
				catch-and-release fishing;
(4)
				modify methods and means of harvest.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 70 - Northwestern Area › 5 AAC 70.055 - Northwestern Area Wild Arctic Grayling Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) By employing a
				conservative harvest regime, the department shall manage wild Arctic grayling
				populations in the Northwestern Area for long-term sustained yield. Following
				sustained yield principles, the department may manage wild Arctic grayling
				fisheries to provide or maintain fishery qualities that are desired by sport
				anglers.
(b) In a sport fishery
				covered by this management plan, the commissioner, by emergency order, may take
				one or more of the management actions specified in this subsection if there are
				conservation or biological concerns for the sustainability of the fishery or
				for a stock harvested by that fishery. The concerns must arise from harvest,
				effort, or catch data for that fishery which has been derived from statewide
				harvest survey data, on-site creel survey data, stock status data, stock
				exploitation rates, or from inferential comparisons with other fisheries. The
				management actions are as follows:
(1) reduce
				the bag and possession limits;
(2)
				reduce fishing time;
(3) allowing
				only catch-and-release fishing;
(4)
				modify methods and means of harvest.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 70 - Northwestern Area › 5 AAC 70.065 - Northwestern Area Stocked Waters Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The department
				shall manage stocked waters in the Northwestern Area in order to meet public
				demand for diverse fishing opportunities. The department may manage fisheries
				to provide or maintain qualities that are desired by sport anglers. The
				department shall manage the stocked waters according to one of three management
				approaches. The management approaches are the
(1) regional management approach;
(2) conservative management approach;
				and
(3) special management
				approach.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 70 - Northwestern Area › 5 AAC 70.995 - Definition of "catch-and-release fishing"

Current through May 31, 2024
For the purposes of this chapter, "catch-and-release fishing"
				  means that the sport angler may fish for a species of finfish, but may not
				  retain or possess that species of finfish.
Authority:
AS
					 16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 71 - Kuskokwim - Goodnews Area › 5 AAC 71.001 - Application of this chapter

Current through May 31, 2024
This chapter applies to sport fishing in the Kuskokwim -
				  Goodnews Area.
Authority:
AS
					 16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 71 - Kuskokwim - Goodnews Area › 5 AAC 71.005 - Description of the Kuskokwim - Goodnews Area

Current through May 31, 2024
The Kuskokwim - Goodnews Area consists of all waters of the
				  Kuskokwim River drainage, and all waters draining into, and including, the
				  Bering Sea and Kuskokwim Bay south of the westernmost point of the Naskonat
				  Peninsula and north of Cape Newenham.
Authority:
AS
					 16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 71 - Kuskokwim - Goodnews Area › 5 AAC 71.010 - Seasons and bag, possession, annual, and size limits for the Kuskokwim - Goodnews Area

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Except as otherwise specified in this
				section or through an emergency order issued under
				AS
				16.05.060, sport fishing is permitted year
				round in the waters of the Kuskokwim - Goodnews Area.
(b) Except as otherwise specified in (c) of
				this section, the following are the general bag, possession, and size limits
				for finfish and shellfish in the waters of the Kuskokwim - Goodnews Area:
(1) king salmon 20 inches or greater in
				length: the bag and possession limit is three fish, of which only two fish may
				be 28 inches or greater in length;
(2) salmon, other than king salmon: the bag
				and possession limit is five fish, with no size limit;
(3) Arctic char/Dolly Varden and lake trout:
(A) in all lakes: the bag and possession
				limit is two fish of all species combined, with no size limit;
(B) in all flowing waters: the bag and
				possession limit is 10 fish of all species combined, of which only two fish may
				be 20 inches or greater in length, and of which only two fish may be lake
				trout;
(4) rainbow
				trout: the bag and possession limit is two fish, of which only one fish may be
				20 inches or greater in length;
(5)
				Arctic grayling: the bag and possession limit is five fish, with no size
				limit;
(6) sheefish: the bag and
				possession limit is 10 fish, with no size limit;
(7) northern pike: the bag and possession
				limit is 10 fish, with no size limit;
(8) burbot: the bag and possession limit is
				15 fish, with no size limit;
(9)
				halibut: may be taken only from February 1 through December 31, with a bag
				limit of two fish and a possession limit of four fish, with no size
				limit;
(10) king crab: may be taken
				in the waters south of 60º N. lat. only from June 1 through January 1; the
				bag and possession limit is six male crab; the size limit for blue king crab is
				5.5 inches minimum carapace width; the size limit for red king crab is 4.75
				inches minimum carapace width;
(11)
				finfish and shellfish species that are not specified in this section: there are
				no bag, possession, or size limits.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 71 - Kuskokwim - Goodnews Area › 5 AAC 71.024 - Harvest record required; annual limits (Repealed)

Current through May 31, 2024
In Register 209, April 2014, the provisions of
					 5 AAC 71.024 were repealed because the substance of the
					 harvest record provisions appears in
					 5 AAC 75.006, which applies on a statewide basis, and
					 the annual limit provisions for king salmon and rainbow/steelhead trout appear
					 in 5 AAC 71.010(c).
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 71 - Kuskokwim - Goodnews Area › 5 AAC 71.030 - Methods, means, and general provisions - Finfish

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Unless
				otherwise provided in this chapter or by an emergency order issued under
				AS
				16.05.060, the provisions in this section
				apply to finfish sport fishing in the Kuskokwim - Goodnews Area.
(b) In all waters, multiple hooks with a gap
				between the point and shank greater than one-half inch may be used for taking
				fish other than salmon.
(c) A spear
				or bow and arrow may be used to take suckers and burbot. Unless prohibited in
				5 AAC 71.010, northern pike and whitefish, except
				sheefish, may be speared by a person who is completely submerged at any time,
				and, from September 1 through April 30, may be taken by spear or bow and
				arrow.
Authority:
AS
					 16.05.060
AS
					 16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 71 - Kuskokwim - Goodnews Area › 5 AAC 71.035 - Methods, means, and general provisions - Shellfish

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Unless otherwise provided in this chapter
				or by an emergency order issued under
				AS
				16.05.060, the provisions in this section
				apply to shellfish sport fishing in the Kuskokwim - Goodnews Area.
(b) Repealed 7/22/2017.
(c) Only male crab may be taken.
(d) Until a crab is being processed for human
				consumption, a person may not mutilate or otherwise disfigure the crab in a
				manner that would prevent the determination of the minimum size
				restriction.
(e) A person may not
				take or possess shellfish that is smaller than the applicable minimum legal
				size limit set out in
				5 AAC 71.010.
(f) The bag and possession limits for
				sport-harvested shellfish are not in addition to those allowed under
				subsistence or personal use fishing regulations.
Authority:
AS
					 16.05.060
AS
					 16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 71 - Kuskokwim - Goodnews Area › 5 AAC 71.040 - Kuskokwim - Goodnews Area Wild Lake Trout Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Notwithstanding
				the other provisions in this chapter regarding lake trout, the department shall
				manage wild lake trout populations in the Kuskokwim - Goodnews Area by
				employing a conservative harvest regime and by maintaining harvest below the
				maximum sustained yield level. Following sustained yield principles, the
				department may manage wild lake trout fisheries to provide or maintain fishery
				qualities that are desired by sport anglers.
(b) In a sport fishery covered by this
				management plan, the commissioner, by emergency order, may take one or more of
				the management actions specified in this subsection if there is a conservation
				or biological concern for the sustainability of the fishery or for a stock
				harvested by that fishery. The concern must arise from harvest, effort, or
				catch data for that fishery which has been derived from statewide harvest
				survey data, on-site creel survey data, stock status data, stock exploitation
				rates, or from inferential comparisons with other fisheries. The management
				actions are as follows:
(1) reduce the bag
				and possession limits;
(2) reduce
				fishing time;
(3) allow only
				catch-and-release fishing;
(4)
				modify methods and means of harvest.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 71 - Kuskokwim - Goodnews Area › 5 AAC 71.055 - Kuskokwim - Goodnews Area Wild Arctic Grayling Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) By employing a
				conservative harvest regime, the department shall manage wild Arctic grayling
				populations in the Kuskokwim - Goodnews Area for long-term sustained yield.
				Following sustained yield principles, the department may manage wild Arctic
				grayling fisheries to provide or maintain fishery qualities that are desired by
				sport anglers.
(b) In a sport
				fishery covered by this management plan, the commissioner, by emergency order,
				may take one or more of the management actions specified in this subsection if
				there are conservation or biological concerns for the sustainability of the
				fishery or for a stock harvested by that fishery. The concerns must arise from
				harvest, effort, or catch data for that fishery which has been derived from
				statewide harvest survey data, on-site creel survey data, stock status data,
				stock exploitation rates, or from inferential comparisons with other fisheries.
				The management actions are as follows:
(1)
				reduce the bag and possession limits;
(2) reduce fishing time;
(3) allowing only catch-and-release
				fishing;
(4) modify methods and
				means of harvest.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 71 - Kuskokwim - Goodnews Area › 5 AAC 71.065 - Kuskokwim - Goodnews Area Stocked Waters Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The department
				shall manage stocked waters in the Kuskokwim - Goodnews Area in order to meet
				public demand for diverse fishing opportunities. The department may manage
				fisheries to provide or maintain qualities that are desired by sport anglers.
				The department shall manage the stocked waters according to one of three
				management approaches. The management approaches are the
(1) regional management approach;
(2) conservative management approach;
				and
(3) special management
				approach.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 71 - Kuskokwim - Goodnews Area › 5 AAC 71.995 - Definition of "catch-and-release fishing"

Current through May 31, 2024
For the purposes of this chapter, "catch-and-release fishing"
				  means that the sport angler may fish for a species of finfish, but may not
				  retain or possess that species of finfish.
Authority:
AS
					 16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 73 - Yukon River Area › 5 AAC 73.005 - Description of the Yukon River Area

Current through May 31, 2024
The Yukon River Area consists of all waters of the Yukon
				  River drainage, excluding the Tanana River drainage, and all waters draining
				  into, and including, Norton Sound and the Bering Sea south of Point Romanof and
				  north of the westernmost point of Naskonat Peninsula.
Authority:
AS
					 16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 73 - Yukon River Area › 5 AAC 73.010 - Seasons, bag, possession, and size limits, and methods and means for the Yukon River Area

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Except as
				otherwise specified in this section or through an emergency order issued under
				AS
				16.05.060, sport fishing is permitted year
				round in the waters of the Yukon River Area.
(b) Except as otherwise specified in (c) of
				this section, the following are the general bag, possession, and size limits
				for finfish and shellfish in the waters of the Yukon River Area:
(1) king salmon 20 inches or greater in
				length: the bag and possession limit is three fish, of which only two fish may
				be 28 inches or greater in length; in all waters, a king salmon that is removed
				from the water must be retained and becomes part of the bag limit of the person
				who originally hooked the fish; a person may not remove a king salmon from the
				water before releasing the fish;
(2) salmon, other than king salmon: the bag
				and possession limit is 10 fish, with no size limit;
(3) Arctic char/Dolly Varden and lake trout:
(A) in all lakes: the bag and possession
				limit is two fish of all species combined, with no size limit;
(B) in all flowing waters: the bag and
				possession limit is 10 fish of all species combined, of which only two fish may
				be 20 inches or greater in length, and of which only two fish may be lake
				trout;
(4) repealed
				5/22/2016;
(5) Arctic grayling: the
				bag and possession limit is five fish, with no size limit;
(6) sheefish: the bag and possession limit is
				10 fish, with no size limit;
(7)
				northern pike: the bag and possession limit is 10 fish, with no size
				limit;
(8) burbot: the bag and
				possession limit is 15 fish, with no size limit;
(9) halibut: may be taken only from February
				1 through December 31, with a bag limit of two fish and a possession limit of
				four fish, with no size limit;
(10)
				finfish and shellfish species that are not specified in this section: there are
				no bag, possession, or size limits;
(11) repealed 7/22/2017;
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 73 - Yukon River Area › 5 AAC 73.030 - Methods, means, and general provisions - Finfish

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Unless
				otherwise provided in this chapter or by an emergency order issued under
				AS
				16.05.060, the provisions in this section
				apply to finfish sport fishing in the Yukon River Area.
(b) In all waters, multiple hooks with a gap
				between the point and shank greater than one-half inch may be used for taking
				fish other than salmon.
(c) A spear
				or bow and arrow may be used to take suckers and burbot. Unless prohibited in
				5 AAC 73.010, northern pike and whitefish, except
				sheefish, may be speared by a person who is completely submerged at any time,
				and, from September 1 through April 30, may be taken by spear or bow and
				arrow.
Authority:
AS
					 16.05.060
AS
					 16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 73 - Yukon River Area › 5 AAC 73.040 - Yukon River Area Wild Lake Trout Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Notwithstanding
				the other provisions in this chapter regarding lake trout, the department shall
				manage wild lake trout populations in the Yukon River Area by employing a
				conservative harvest regime and by maintaining harvest below the maximum
				sustained yield level. Following sustained yield principles, the department may
				manage wild lake trout fisheries to provide or maintain fishery qualities that
				are desired by sport anglers.
(b)
				In a sport fishery covered by this management plan, the commissioner, by
				emergency order, may take one or more of the management actions specified in
				this subsection if there is a conservation or biological concern for the
				sustainability of the fishery or for a stock harvested by that fishery. The
				concern must arise from harvest, effort, or catch data for that fishery which
				has been derived from statewide harvest survey data, on-site creel survey data,
				stock status data, stock exploitation rates, or from inferential comparisons
				with other fisheries. The management actions are as follows:
(1) reduce bag and possession
				limits;
(2) reduce fishing
				time;
(3) allow only
				catch-and-release fishing;
(4)
				modify methods and means of harvest.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 73 - Yukon River Area › 5 AAC 73.055 - Yukon River Area Wild Arctic Grayling Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) By employing a
				conservative harvest regime, the department shall manage wild Arctic grayling
				populations in the Yukon River Area for long-term sustained yield. Following
				sustained yield principles, the department may manage wild Arctic grayling
				fisheries to provide or maintain fishery qualities that are desired by sport
				anglers.
(b) In a sport fishery
				covered by this management plan, the commissioner, by emergency order, may take
				one or more of the management actions specified in this subsection if there are
				conservation or biological concerns for the sustainability of the fishery or
				for a stock harvested by that fishery. The concerns must arise from harvest,
				effort, or catch data for that fishery which has been derived from statewide
				harvest survey data, on-site creel survey data, stock status data, stock
				exploitation rates, or from inferential comparisons with other fisheries. The
				management actions are as follows:
(1) reduce
				the bag and possession limits;
(2)
				reduce fishing time;
(3) allowing
				only catch-and-release fishing;
(4)
				modify methods and means of harvest.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 73 - Yukon River Area › 5 AAC 73.065 - Yukon River Area Stocked Waters Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The department
				shall manage stocked waters in the Yukon River Area in order to meet public
				demand for diverse fishing opportunities. The department may manage fisheries
				to provide or maintain qualities that are desired by sport anglers. The
				department shall manage the stocked waters according to one of three management
				approaches. The management approaches are the
(1) regional management approach;
(2) conservative management approach;
				and
(3) special management
				approach.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 73 - Yukon River Area › 5 AAC 73.995 - Definition of "catch-and-release fishing"

Current through May 31, 2024
For the purposes of this chapter, "catch-and-release fishing"
				  means that the sport angler may fish for a species of finfish, but may not
				  retain or possess that species of finfish.
Authority:
AS
					 16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 74 - Tanana River Area › 5 AAC 74.005 - Description of the Tanana River Area

Current through May 31, 2024
The Tanana River Area consists of all waters of the Tanana
				  River drainage.
Authority:
AS
					 16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 74 - Tanana River Area › 5 AAC 74.010 - Seasons, bag, possession, and size limits, and methods and means for the Tanana River Area

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Except as
				otherwise specified in this section or through an emergency order issued under
				AS
				16.05.060, sport fishing is permitted year
				round in the waters of the Tanana River Area.
(b) Except as otherwise specified in (c) and
				(d) of this section, the following are the general bag, possession, and size
				limits and means for finfish in the waters of the Tanana River Area:
(1) king salmon 20 inches or greater in
				length: the bag and possession limit is one fish; in all waters, except stocked
				lakes specified in (c)(29) of this section, a king salmon that is removed from
				the water must be retained and becomes part of the bag limit of the person who
				originally hooked the fish; a person may not remove a king salmon from the
				water before releasing the fish;
(2) salmon, other than king salmon: the bag
				and possession limit is three fish, with no size limit;
(3) Arctic char/Dolly Varden: the bag and
				possession limit is 10 fish, with no size limit;
(4) lake trout: the bag and possession limit
				is two fish, with no size limit;
(5) repealed 6/28/2019;
(6) Arctic grayling: the bag and possession
				limit is five fish, with no size limit;
(7) whitefish: the bag and possession limit
				is 15 fish, with no size limit;
(8)
				sheefish: the bag and possession limit is two fish, with no size
				limit;
(9) northern pike: the bag
				and possession limit is five fish, of which only one fish may be 30 inches or
				greater in length;
(10) burbot: the
				bag and possession limit is 15 fish, with no size limit;
(11) finfish species that are not specified
				in this section: there are no bag, possession, or size limits;
(12) repealed 7/28/2023;
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 74 - Tanana River Area › 5 AAC 74.030 - Methods, means, and general provisions - Finfish

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Unless
				otherwise provided in this chapter or by an emergency order issued under
				AS
				16.05.060, the provisions in this section
				apply to finfish sport fishing in the Tanana River Area.
(b) In all waters, multiple hooks with a gap
				between the point and shank greater than one-half inch may be used for taking
				fish other than salmon.
(c) A spear
				or bow and arrow may be used to take suckers and burbot. Unless prohibited in
				5 AAC 74.010, northern pike and whitefish, except
				sheefish, may be speared by a person who is completely submerged at any time,
				and, from September 1 through April 30, may be taken by spear or bow and
				arrow.
Authority:
AS
					 16.05.060
AS
					 16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 74 - Tanana River Area › 5 AAC 74.035 - Ice house registration

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) From October 1 through April 30, a person
				using an ice house that is not removed from the ice daily shall register that
				ice house with, and receive a permit from, the department for that
				year.
(b) An ice house registered
				under this section must display the department's permit number on one side and
				on the roof of the ice house in numbers not less than 12 inches high, one inch
				wide, and plainly visible. The numbers must be in a color that contrasts with
				the color of the ice house.
(c) An
				ice house must be removed from the ice by April 30, however, the department may
				designate other conditions on the permit, including other time and area
				restrictions.
Authority:
AS
					 16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 74 - Tanana River Area › 5 AAC 74.040 - Tanana River Area Wild Lake Trout Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Notwithstanding
				the other provisions in this chapter regarding lake trout, the department shall
				manage wild lake trout populations in the Tanana River Area by employing a
				conservative harvest regime and by maintaining harvest below the maximum
				sustained yield level. Following sustained yield principles, the department may
				manage wild lake trout fisheries to provide or maintain fishery qualities that
				are desired by sport anglers.
(b)
				In a sport fishery covered by this management plan, the commissioner, by
				emergency order, may take one or more of the management actions specified in
				this subsection if there is a conservation or biological concern for the
				sustainability of the fishery or for a stock harvested by that fishery. The
				concern must arise from harvest, effort, or catch data for that fishery which
				has been derived from statewide harvest survey data, on-site creel survey data,
				stock status data, stock exploitation rates, or from inferential comparisons
				with other fisheries. The management actions are as follows:
(1) reduce bag and possession
				limits;
(2) reduce fishing
				time;
(3) allow only
				catch-and-release fishing;
(4)
				modify methods and means of harvest.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 74 - Tanana River Area › 5 AAC 74.044 - Minto Flats Northern Pike Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Northern pike
				stocks in the lakes and flowing waters of the Minto Flats support both
				subsistence and sport fisheries. The purpose of this management plan is to
				provide the department with guidance to achieve the goals of managing these
				stocks consistent with sustained yield principles, providing a reasonable
				opportunity for the priority subsistence fishery, and providing a sport fishing
				opportunity. The Minto Flats northern pike management plan for the subsistence
				fishery is set out in
				5 AAC 01.244.
(b) The department shall manage the Minto
				Flats northern pike sport fishery as follows:
(1) the maximum exploitation rate of northern
				pike in the lakes and flowing waters of the Minto Flats by all users may not
				exceed 20 percent annually;
(2) the
				following provisions apply to the harvest of northern pike in the Minto Flats
				area sport fishery:
(A) the open fishing
				season is from June 1 through October 14;
(B) the daily bag and possession limit is
				five fish per day, only one of which may be 30 inches or more in
				length;
(C) if the subsistence
				harvest reports indicate that 750 or more northern pike have been harvested
				from the Chatanika River drainage upstream of the confluence of the Chatanika
				River and Goldstream Creek during the period from January 1 until these waters
				are free of ice, the commissioner shall reduce, by emergency order, the daily
				bag and possession limit to two fish per day, only one of which may be 30
				inches or more in length, in the lakes and all flowing waters of the Minto
				Flats area for the remainder of the calendar year; and
(D) in the Chatanika River drainage upstream
				from the confluence of the Chatanika River and Goldstream Creek to an ADF&G
				regulatory marker located at the boundary of the Fairbanks non-subsistence area
				(approximately one mile downstream from the Murphy Dome Road), only single
				hooks may be used.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 74 - Tanana River Area › 5 AAC 74.055 - Tanana River Area Wild Arctic Grayling Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) By employing a
				conservative harvest regime, the department shall manage wild Arctic grayling
				populations in the Tanana River Area for long-term sustained yield. Following
				sustained yield principles, the department may manage wild Arctic grayling
				fisheries to provide or maintain fishery qualities that are desired by sport
				anglers.
(b) In a sport fishery
				covered by this management plan, the commissioner, by emergency order, may take
				one or more of the management actions specified in this subsection if there are
				conservation or biological concerns for the sustainability of the fishery or
				for a stock harvested by that fishery. The concerns must arise from harvest,
				effort, or catch data for that fishery which has been derived from statewide
				harvest survey data, on-site creel survey data, stock status data, stock
				exploitation rates, or from inferential comparisons with other fisheries. The
				management actions are as follows:
(1) reduce
				the bag and possession limits;
(2)
				reduce fishing time;
(3) allowing
				only catch-and-release fishing;
(4)
				modify methods and means of harvest.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 74 - Tanana River Area › 5 AAC 74.060 - Chena and Salcha River King Salmon Sport Harvest Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
The department shall manage the king salmon fisheries within
				  the Chena and Salcha river systems to achieve the established biological
				  escapement goals. The commissioner shall make adjustments to harvest amounts
				  and fishing restrictions by emergency order according to inriver abundance and
				  subsistence restrictions in the Tanana River drainage.
Authority:
AS
					 16.05.060
AS
					 16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 74 - Tanana River Area › 5 AAC 74.065 - Tanana River Area Stocked Waters Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The department
				shall manage stocked waters in the Tanana River Area in order to meet public
				demand for diverse fishing opportunities. The department may manage fisheries
				to provide or maintain qualities that are desired by sport anglers. The
				department shall manage the stocked waters according to one of three management
				approaches. The management approaches are the
(1) regional management approach;
(2) conservative management approach;
				and
(3) special management
				approach.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 74 - Tanana River Area › 5 AAC 74.995 - Definition of "catch-and-release fishing"

Current through May 31, 2024
For the purposes of this chapter, "catch-and-release fishing"
				  means that the sport angler may fish for a species of finfish, but may not
				  retain or possess that species of finfish.
Authority:
AS
					 16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 75 - Statewide Provisions › Article 1 - General › 5 AAC 75.001 - Application of regulations

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Unless
				  otherwise specified in 5 AAC 47 - 5 AAC 75, or by emergency order or emergency
				  regulation, the provisions of this chapter apply only to sport fishing
				  activities which are permitted as provided in 5 AAC 47 - 5 AAC 75.
(b) The regulations in this chapter that
				  apply to sport fishing in salt waters also apply to the waters of the exclusive
				  economic zone.
Authority:
AS
						16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 75 - Statewide Provisions › Article 1 - General › 5 AAC 75.002 - Liability for violations

Current through May 31, 2024
Unless otherwise provided in 5 AAC 47 - 5 AAC 75, or in AS
					 16, a person who violates a provision of 5 AAC 47 - 5 AAC 75 is strictly liable
					 for the offense, regardless of that person's intent.
Authority:
AS
						16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 75 - Statewide Provisions › Article 1 - General › 5 AAC 75.003 - Emergency order authority

Current through May 31, 2024
The commissioner may, by emergency order, change bag and
					 possession limits and annual limits and alter methods and means in sport
					 fisheries. These changes may not reduce the allocation of harvest among other
					 user groups. An emergency order may not supersede provisions for increasing or
					 decreasing bag and possession limits or changing methods and means established
					 in regulatory management plans established by the Board of Fisheries. The
					 commissioner will use emergency order authority to manage sport fishing
					 opportunity in the following circumstances:
(1) The commissioner or an authorized
				  designee may decrease sport fish bag and possession limits and annual limits
				  and restrict methods and means of harvest by emergency order when
(A) the total escapement of a species of
				  anadromous fish is projected to be less than the escapement goal for that
				  species listed in management plans that have been adopted by the Board of
				  Fisheries or established by the department; or
(B) the recreational harvest must be
				  curtailed in any fishery for conservation reasons; the department may issue a
				  "catch and release only" emergency order when the estimated hooking mortality
				  is not projected to reduce the population of fish below the number required for
				  spawning escapement or, in the case of resident species, below the level
				  required for maintenance of the desired age and size distribution of the
				  population; "catch and release" as a tool to address conservation under this
				  section shall be labeled "conservation catch and release" to differentiate from
				  catch and release regulations adopted by the Board of Fisheries for special
				  management to create diversity in sport fisheries;
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 75 - Statewide Provisions › Article 1 - General › 5 AAC 75.005 - Possession of licenses, stamps and harvest record

Current through May 31, 2024
A person engaged in sport fishing or in possession of fish
					 shall show that person's sport fishing license, harvest records, special
					 permits, and stamps to any local representative of the department or to any
					 peace officer of the state upon the request of tbe representative or peace
					 officer.
Authority:
AS
						16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 75 - Statewide Provisions › Article 1 - General › 5 AAC 75.006 - Harvest record for finfish with an annual limit

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The following
				  provisions regarding harvest records apply to taking and retaining finfish for
				  which annual limits have been established in 5 AAC 47 - 5 AAC 75 or by
				  emergency order:
(1) a nontransferable
				  harvest record is required and must be in the possession of each person taking
				  and retaining a finfish for which an annual limit has been established; for a
				  licensed angler, a harvest record appears on the angler's sport fishing
				  license; for an angler not required to have a sport fishing license, a harvest
				  record may be obtained, without charge, from department offices and fishing
				  license vendors;
(2) immediately
				  upon landing a finfish for which an annual limit has been established, the
				  angler shall enter the date, location (body of water fished), and species of
				  the catch on the harvest record;
(3) nothing in this section affects or
				  modifies a bag or possession limit for finfish specified in 5 AAC 47 - 5 AAC 75
				  or by an emergency order.