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Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 04 - Norton Sound-Port Clarence Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 04.335 - Minimum distance between units of gear

Current through May 31, 2024
No part of a set gillnet may be set or operated within 300
					 feet of any part of another set gillnet.
Authority:
AS
						16.05.251(a)
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 04 - Norton Sound-Port Clarence Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 04.350 - Closed waters

Current through May 31, 2024
Salmon may not be taken in the following locations:
(1) all waters seaward of the mouth of the
				  Unalakleet River from a line between ADF&G regulatory markers located on
				  each side of the river to an outer line established by ADF&G regulatory
				  markers and buoys;
(2) all waters
				  of the Norton Sound-Port Clarence Area except those waters described in
				  5 AAC 04.200;
(3) in the Port Clarence District, all waters
				  of the Outer Subdistrict described in
				  5 AAC 04.200(a) (2);
(4) repealed 4/13/2013.
Authority:
AS
						16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 04 - Norton Sound-Port Clarence Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 04.355 - Requirements for transporting salmon and salmon roe in the Norton Sound-Port Clarence Area

Current through May 31, 2024
A salmon buyer or processor transporting salmon or salmon
					 roe to the point of initial processing must have in possession, and display,
					 upon request, to a peace officer of the state, a completed fish ticket, or a
					 copy of the fish ticket, for all salmon or salmon roe in the buyer's or
					 processor's possession at the time. While transporting commercially-harvested
					 salmon or salmon roe, a buyer or processor may not possess or transport
					 subsistence-harvested salmon or salmon roe.
Authority:
AS
						16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 04 - Norton Sound-Port Clarence Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 04.362 - Guideline harvest range for Port Clarence District

Current through May 31, 2024
If the department projects that the in river run goal for
					 the Pilgrim River is at least 30,000 sockeye salmon, a commercial fishery may
					 occur in the Port Clarence District with the guideline harvest range from 0 -
					 10,000 sockeye salmon.
Authority:
AS
						16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 04 - Norton Sound-Port Clarence Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 04.365 - Reporting requirements

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) In addition to the requirements of
				  5 AAC 39.130, each buyer, or the buyer's agent, shall
				  report to a local representative of the department before purchasing fish taken
				  in the Norton Sound District.
(b)
				  Each commercial salmon fisherman shall report, on a ADF&G fish ticket, the
				  number of salmon taken but not sold.
Authority:
AS
						16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 04 - Norton Sound-Port Clarence Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 04.380 - Subdistrict 1 of the Norton Sound District Salmon Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The purpose
				  of this management plan is to provide the department with management guidelines
				  for the sustained yield of salmon stocks in Subdistrict 1 of the Norton Sound
				  District.
The department shall manage, to the extent practicable, the
					 subsistence, sport, and commercial fisheries in Subdistrict 1 to achieve
					 escapement goals.
(b) The
				  department shall manage salmon fisheries in Subdistrict 1 as follows:
(1) commercial fishing for chum and pink
				  salmon may be opened in the waters east or west of Cape Nome, or both, by
				  emergency order, if the department projects the harvestable surplus will more
				  than meet subsistence needs;
(2)
				  subsistence fishing for chum salmon will be opened and closed by emergency
				  order on a stream-by-stream basis, if the department determines there is a
				  harvestable surplus; a permit under 5 AAC 01.180 is required;
(3) if subsistence fishing for chum salmon is
				  restricted, the commissioner may, by emergency order, close a commercial
				  fishery and immediately reopen a commercial fishery during which chum salmon
				  may be retained, but not sold.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 04 - Norton Sound-Port Clarence Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 04.390 - Subdistricts 2 and 3 of the Norton Sound District Salmon Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a)
				  repelaed 6/28/2019;
(b) The
				  department shall manage salmon fisheries in the Subdistricts 2 and 3 as
				  follows:
(1) in the commercial chum salmon
				  fishery,
(A) repealed 6/28/2019;
(i) Kwiniuk River: 11,500 - 23,000 chum
				  salmon; and
(ii) Tubutulik River:
				  9,200 - 18,400 chum salmon;
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 04 - Norton Sound-Port Clarence Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 04.395 - Subdistricts 5 and 6 of the Norton Sound District and the Unalakleet River King Salmon Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The purpose of
				  this management plan is to provide the department management direction for the
				  subsistence, sport, and commercial king salmon fisheries in the marine waters
				  of Subdistricts 5 and 6 and in the Unalakleet River drainage from June 15
				  through July 15.
(b) From June 15
				  through June 20,
(1) the commissioner will
				  close, by emergency order, subsistence fishing and immediately reopen
				  subsistence fishing with two 48-hour fishing periods per week in the marine
				  waters of Subdistricts 5 and 6 and two 36-hour fishing periods per week in the
				  in river fishery;
(2) in the sport
				  fishery,
(A) the bag and possession limit for
				  king salmon is two fish, of which only one fish may be 20 inches or greater in
				  length;
(B) the annual limit for
				  king salmon 20 inches or greater in length is two fish;
(3) commercial fishing is closed.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 04 - Norton Sound-Port Clarence Area › Article 4 - Bottomfish Fishery (Repealed)

Current through May 31, 2024
Publisher's note:
5 AAC 04.410 was repealed as
					 of Register 110.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 05 - Yukon Area › Article 1 - Description of Area › 5 AAC 05.001 - Application of this chapter

Current through May 31, 2024
Requirements set out in this chapter apply to commercial
					 fishing only, unless otherwise specified. Subsistence, personal use, and sport
					 fishing regulations affecting commercial fishing vessels or affecting any other
					 commercial fishing activity are set out in the subsistence fishing regulations
					 in 5 AAC 01 and 5 AAC 02, personal use fishing regulations in 5 AAC 77, and
					 sport fishing regulations in 5 AAC 73, 5 AAC 74, and 5 AAC
					 75.
Authority:
AS
						16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 05 - Yukon Area › Article 1 - Description of Area › 5 AAC 05.100 - Description of Yukon Area

Current through May 31, 2024
The Yukon Area includes all waters of Alaska between a line
					 extending 315° northwest from Point Romanof at 63° 12.16' N. Jat.,
					 162° 49.72' W. long. to a point three nautical miles offshore at 63°
					 14.27' N. lat., 162° 54.40' W. long. and the latitude of the westernmost
					 point of the Naskonat Peninsula, including those waters draining into the
					 Bering Sea.
Authority:
AS
						16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 05 - Yukon Area › Article 2 - Fishing Districts and Subdistricts › 5 AAC 05.200 - Fishing districts and subdistricts

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) District 1
				  consists of that portion of the Yukon River drainage from a line extending
				  northwest from Point Roman of at 63°12.16' N. lat., 162° 49.72' W.
				  long., to a point three nautical miles offshore at 63° 14.27' N. lat.,
				  162° 54 .40' W. long., extending south and west along the coast of the
				  delta to a line approximately one nautical mile south of the mouth of the Black
				  River from 62° 20.58' N. lat., 165° 22.66' W. long., to a point located
				  three nautical miles offshore at 62° 22.67' N. lat., 165° 27.37' W.
				  long .. including the waters within three nautical miles seaward from any
				  grassland bank within that area, and upstream from the mouth of the Black River
				  to the northern edge of the mouth of the Anuk River and all waters of the Black
				  River.
(b) District 2 consists of
				  that portion of the Yukon River drainage from the northern edge of the mouth of
				  the Anuk River upstream to an ADF&G regulatory marker located at Toklik,
				  and includes the Anuk River drainage.
(c) District 3 consists of that portion of
				  the Yukon River drainage from an ADF&G regulatory marker located at Toklik
				  upstream to an ADF&G regulatory marker at the mouth of an unnamed slough
				  three-fourths of a mile downstream from Old Paradise Village.
(d) District 4 consists of the Yukon River
				  drainage from an ADF&G regulatory marker at the mouth of an unnamed slough
				  three-fourths of a mile downstream from Old Paradise Village upstream to the
				  western edge of the mouth of Illinois Creek at Kallands.
(1) Subdistrict 4-A consists of that portion
				  of the Yukon River drainage from an ADF&G regulatory marker at the mouth of
				  an unnamed slough three-fourths of a mile downstream from Old Paradise Village
				  upstream to the tip of Cone Point;
(2) Subdistrict 4-B consists of the Yukon
				  River drainage from the tip of Cone Point upstream along the north bank of the
				  river to the westernmost edge of Illinois Creek and includes the following
				  islands: Cook, Lark, Serpentine, Louden, Fish, Dainty, Yuki, Melozi, Dasha,
				  Straight, Kit, Fox, Hardluck, Mickey, Florence, Doyle, Chokoyik, Lady, Liner,
				  Flora and Cronin;
(3) Subdistrict
				  4-C consists of the Yukon River drainage from the tip of Cone Point upstream
				  along the south bank of the river to a point opposite the westernmost edge of
				  Illinois Creek and includes the following islands: Cat, Hen, Jimmy, Big,
				  Ninemile, Ham, Emerald, Edith, Kathaleen, Henry, Burns, Youngs, Weir, Clay,
				  Large and Brant.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 05 - Yukon Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 05.310 - Fishing seasons

Current through May 31, 2024
Except as provided in
					 5 AAC 05.320 -
					 5 AAC 05.380, salmon may be taken only as
					 follows:
(1) in Districts 1, 2, and 3,
				  the commissioner shall open and close the season by emergency order;
(2) in District 4, the commissioner shall
				  open and close the season by emergency order and close the season on or before
				  October 1 at 12:01 a.m. by emergency order;
(3) in District 5, in all subdistricts, the
				  commissioner shall open and close the season by emergency order;
(4) in District 6, the commissioner shall
				  open the season by emergency order and close the season by emergency
				  order.
Authority:
AS 16.05.060
AS 16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 05 - Yukon Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 05.320 - Fishing periods

Current through May 31, 2024
In the Yukon Area, in all districts and subdistricts,
					 salmon may be taken only during fishing periods established by emergency
					 order.
Authority:
AS
						16.05.060
AS
						16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 05 - Yukon Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 05.330 - Gear

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) In Districts 1 - 3, set gillnets and
				  drift gillnets only may be operated, except that in District 1 after July 15
				  set gillnets only may be operated in the following locations:
(1) waters of the Black River;
(2) waters of Kwikluak Pass downstream of
				  Agmulegut and the waters of Kwemeluk Pass;
(3) waters of Alakanuk Pass downstream from
				  the mouth of Kuiukpak Slough;
(4)
				  waters of Kwiguk Pass downstream of the mouth of Kawokhawik Slough;
(5) waters of Kawanak Pass downstream from
				  Sea Gull Point;
(6) waters of
				  Kwikpak Pass downstream from Sea Gull Point;
(7) waters of Apoon Pass downstream of the
				  mouth of the Kotlik River and waters of Okwega Pass downstream from its
				  confluence with Apoon Pass;
(8)
				  waters within three nautical miles seaward from any grassland bank in District
				  1.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 05 - Yukon Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 05.331 - Gillnet specifications and operations

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Set gillnet
				  gear may not exceed 150 fathoms in aggregate length.
(b) Drift gillnet gear may not exceed 50
				  fathoms in length.
(c) Salmon may
				  be taken only with gillnets of six-inch or smaller mesh during periods
				  established by emergency order.
(d)
				  No gillnet gear may be operated in a manner to obstruct more than one-half the
				  width of any waterway. In the intertidal zone, this restriction applies at all
				  stages of the tide.
(e) In
				  Districts 1 - 3, gillnets with
(1) greater
				  than six-inch mesh may not be more than 45 meshes in depth;
(2) six-inch or smaller mesh may not be more
				  than 50 meshes in depth.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 05 - Yukon Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 05.333 - Fish wheel specifications and operations

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Fish wheel
				  baskets must be stopped from rotating in the water during periods closed to
				  commercial and subsistence fishing. The fish wheel registrant is responsible
				  for the operation of the fish wheel.
(b) A lead may be used with a commercial fish
				  wheel operated under this chapter.
(c) In this section, "lead" means length of
				  net or fencing employed for guiding fish into a fish A wheel.
Authority:
AS
						16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 05 - Yukon Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 05.334 - Identification of gear

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Each drift gillnet in operation must have
				  at one end a red keg, buoy or cluster of floats plainly and legibly marked with
				  the fisherman's five-digit CFEC permit serial number.
(b) Each set gillnet and fish wheel in
				  operation must be identified as required under
				  5 AAC 39.280.
(c) Repealed 4/15/81.
(d) In Districts 3-6, unless a person is
				  fishing under the ice, gillnets in operation sunk below the surface must have a
				  keg, buoy, or cluster of floats visible on the surface of the water at each end
				  of the submerged net, and for submerged gillnets over 60 feet in length, a
				  third keg, buoy, or cluster of floats must be attached to the middle of the
				  net.
Authority:
AS
						16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 05 - Yukon Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 05.335 - Minimum distance between units of gear

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) In District 1,
				  no person may set or operate any part of a set gillnet within 300 feet of any
				  part of another set gillnet.
(b) In
				  District 2, no person may set or operate any part of a set gillnet within 200
				  feet of any part of another set gillnet.
(c) In Districts 4, 5, and 6, a person may
				  not set or operate commercial fishing gear within 200 feet of other commercial,
				  personal use, or subsistence fishing gear, except as follows:
(1) in District 4 from Old Paradise Village
				  upstream to a point four miles upstream from Anvik there is no minimum distance
				  requirement between fish wheels;
(2) at the site approximately one mile
				  upstream from Ruby on the south bank of the Yukon River between ADF&G
				  regulatory markers containing the area known locally as the "Slide," there is
				  no minimum distance requirement between subsistence gear and commercial
				  gear.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 05 - Yukon Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 05.340 - Vessel identification

Current through May 31, 2024
A vessel used by a commercial salmon permit holder to take
					 salmon during the open commercial fishing season in District 1, 2, or 3, must
					 display, on both sides of the hull or cabin, in permanent symbols at least 12
					 inches high and with lines at least one inch wide that contrast with the
					 background, the vessel's ADF&G license plate number, or the permit holder's
					 five-digit CFEC permit number and the letter following.
Authority:
AS
						16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 05 - Yukon Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 05.350 - Closed waters

Current through May 31, 2024
Salmon may not be taken in the following waters:
(1) repealed 4/13/2013;
(2) waters farther than three nautical miles
				  seaward from any grassland bank in District 1;
(3) all waters south and west of a line
				  extending seaward in a northwestern direction from an ADF&G regulatory
				  marker located on the beach approximately one nautical mile south of the mouth
				  of Black River at 62° 20.58' N. lat., 165° 22.66' W. long. to a point
				  located three nautical miles offshore at 62 22.67' N. lat., 165° 27.37' W.
				  long.;
(4) waters of the Andreafsky
				  River upstream of a line between ADF&G regulatory markers placed on each
				  side of the river at its mouth;
(5)
				  Tanana River upstream of the downstream edge of the mouth of the Chena
				  River;
(6) tributaries of the Yukon
				  and Tanana Rivers;
(7) repealed
				  6/26/2016;
(8) waters of the Anvik
				  River upstream of a line between ADF&G regulatory markers placed on each
				  side of the river at its mouth;
(9)
				  repealed 6/26/2016;
(10) repealed
				  7/13/2012.
(11) the waters within
				  500 yards of the mouth of the Pastolik River and Pastoliak River, as specified
				  in 5 AAC 39.290(a)(2);
(12) all other waters of the Yukon Area,
				  except those waters described in
				  5 AAC 05.200.
Authority:
AS
						16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 05 - Yukon Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 05.355 - Requirements for transporting salmon and salmon roe in the Yukon Area

Current through May 31, 2024
A salmon buyer or processor transporting salmon or salmon
					 roe to the point of initial processing must have in possession, and display,
					 upon request, to a peace officer of the state, a completed fish ticket, or a
					 copy of the fish ticket, for all salmon or salmon roe in the buyer's or
					 processor's possession at the time. While transporting commercially-harvested
					 salmon or salmon roe, a buyer or processor may not possess or transport
					 subsistence-harvested salmon or salmon roe.
In Register 203, October 2012, the section heading of
						5 AAC 03.355 was changed to reflect the change in the
						name of the area from the Yukon-Northern Area to the Yukon
						Area.
Authority:
AS
						16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 05 - Yukon Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 05.359 - Yukon River Pink Salmon Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The goal of
				  this management plan is to provide for the management of directed commercial
				  pink salmon fishing in the Yukon River. Pink salmon exhibit an odd-numbered
				  year and even-numbered year cycle in the Yukon River, in which an even-numbered
				  year experiences large returns of pink salmon. The management of directed
				  commercial pink salmon fishing is complicated by overlapping runs of summer
				  chum salmon and fall chum salmon stocks.
(b) For the purpose of determining if there
				  is a harvestable surplus of pink salmon under ( c) of this section, the
				  department shall use the best available information to assess pink salmon
				  abundance, including mainstem river sonar passage estimates, subsistence and
				  commercial harvest reports, and estimates from escapement monitoring
				  projects.
(c) From June 15 through
				  July 31, if the commissioner determines that there is a harvestable surplus of
				  pink salmon sufficient to provide for pink salmon subsistence uses and other
				  use; and chum salmon escapement goals are expected to be achieved, the
				  commissioner may open, by emergency order, a directed commercial pink salmon
				  fishery in District 1 during which only a gillnet that has a mesh of size four
				  and three-quarter inches or less may be used.
Authority:
AS
						16.05.060
AS 16.05.251
AS
						16.05.258
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 05 - Yukon Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 05.360 - Yukon River King Salmon Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The objective
				  of this management plan is to provide the department with guidelines to manage
				  for the sustained yield of Yukon River king salmon. The department shall use
				  the best available data, including preseason run projections, test fishing
				  indices, age and sex composition, subsistence and commercial harvest reports,
				  and passage estimates from escapement monitoring projects to assess the run
				  size for the purpose of implementing this plan.
(b) The department shall manage commercial
				  fishing as follows:
(1) the department may
				  open a directed commercial king salmon fishery when increases in subsistence or
				  test fishery net catches of king salmon have occurred over a seven to ten day
				  period;
(2) the department shall
				  manage the Yukon River commercial king salmon fishery for a guideline harvest
				  range of 67,350 - 129,150 king salmon, distributed as follows:
(A) Districts 1 and 2: 60,000 - 120,000 king
				  salmon;
(B) District 3: 1,800 -
				  2,200 king salmon;
(C) District 4:
				  2,250 - 2,850 king salmon;
(D)
				  District 5:
(i) Subdistrict 5-B and 5-C:
				  2,400 - 2,800 king salmon;
(ii)
				  Subdistrict 5-D: 300 - 500 king salmon; and
(E) District 6: 600 - 800 king
				  salmon;
(3) when the
				  projected king salmon harvest range for Districts 1 - 6 combined is below the
				  low end harvest level from zero to 67,350 fish, the department shall allocate
				  the commercial harvest available by percentage for each district as follows:
(A) Districts 1 and 2: 89.1
				  percent;
(B) District 3: 2.7
				  percent;
(C) District 4: 3.3
				  percent;
(D) Subdistricts 5-B and
				  5-C: 3.6 percent;
(E) Subdistrict
				  5-D: 0.4 percent; and
(F) District
				  6: 0.9 percent.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 05 - Yukon Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 05.362 - Yukon River Summer Chum Salmon Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The objective
				  of this management plan is to provide the department with guidelines to manage
				  for the sustained yield of Yukon River summer chum salmon. The department shall
				  use the best available data, including preseason run projections, test fishing
				  indices, age and sex composition, subsistence and commercial harvest reports,
				  and passage estimates from escapement monitoring projects to assess the run
				  size for the purpose of implementing this plan. Management of the summer chum
				  salmon fisheries may be affected during times of king salmon
				  conservation.
(b) When the
				  projected run size of summer chum salmon is 500,000 fish or less,
(1) the commissioner shall close, by
				  emergency order, the commercial, sport, and personal use directed summer chum
				  salmon fisheries;
(2) the
				  department may restrict or close the subsistence summer chum salmon fishery,
				  except that, if indicators show an individual escapement goal in a district,
				  subdistrict, or portion of a district or subdistrict will be met, the
				  commissioner may open, by emergency order, a directed subsistence summer chum
				  fishery in that district, subdistrict, or portion of a district or
				  subdistrict.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 05 - Yukon Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 05.365 - Yukon River fall chum salmon guideline harvest ranges

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The department
				  shall manage the Yukon River commercial fall chum salmon fishery for a
				  guideline harvest range of 72,750 - 320,500 chum salmon, distributed as
				  follows:
(1) Districts 1, 2, and 3: 60,000 -
				  220,000 chum salmon;
(2) District
				  4: 5,000 - 40,000 chum salmon;
(3)
				  Subdistricts 5-B and 5-C: 4,000 - 36,000 chum salmon;
(4) Subdistrict 5-D: 1,000 - 4,000 chum
				  salmon;
(5) District 6: 2,750 -
				  20,500 chum salmon.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 05 - Yukon Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 05.367 - Tanana River Salmon Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The purpose of
				  this management plan is to provide for the sustained yield of the Tanana River
				  salmon resource. The department shall manage the salmon fisheries in the Tanana
				  River drainage to achieve established spawning escapement goals. Except as
				  provided in
				  5 AAC 01.249, the department shall manage the District 6
				  and Subdistrict 5-A salmon fisheries in accordance with the provisions of this
				  section.
(b) The department shall
				  manage the salmon fisheries in District 6 (Tanana River) as follows:
(1) the commercial salmon fishing season
				  shall be opened by emergency order and closes on September 30, unless closed
				  earlier by emergency order;
(2) the
				  commercial salmon fishing periods shall be opened and closed by emergency
				  order;
(3) except as provided in
				  5 AAC 01.210(b) (4), in Subdistricts
				  6-A and 6-B, through September 30, the subsistence salmon fishing periods are
				  from 6:00 p.m. Friday until 12:00 noon Sunday and from 6:00 p.m. Monday until
				  12:00 noon Wednesday, unless modified by emergency order;
(4) in Subdistrict 6-C, the personal use
				  salmon fishing periods are from 6:00 p.m. Friday until 12:00 noon Sunday and
				  from 6:00 p.m. Monday until 12:00 noon Wednesday, unless modified by emergency
				  order;
(5) the guideline harvest
				  ranges are
(A) 600 - 800 king
				  salmon;
(B) 13,000 - 38,000 summer
				  chum salmon; and
(C) 2,750 - 20,500
				  fall chum salmon.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 05 - Yukon Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 05.368 - Anvik River Chum Salmon Fishery Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
The department may not manage the Yukon River summer chum
					 salmon run to specifically allow an allocation of catch to the Anvik River. It
					 is the intent of the Board of Fisheries that Yukon River summer chum salmon be
					 harvested in the fisheries that have historically harvested them, including the
					 methods, means, times, locations, and guideline harvest levels for the
					 respective districts and subdistricts within the Yukon Area; the following
					 provisions apply to the Anvik River chum salmon fishery:
(1) only after the department projects that
				  an escapement objective of 500,000 or more chum salmon will be achieved may the
				  commissioner open, by emergency order, any portion of the Anvik River, upstream
				  of ADF&G regulatory markers placed on each side of the river at its mouth
				  to the taking of chum salmon;
(2)
				  in the Anvik River, the set gillnet fishery includes fish wheels, hand beach
				  seine gear, and hand purse seine gear; the fish wheel fishery includes set
				  gillnets, hand beach seine gear, and hand purse seine gear; a fish wheel, set
				  gillnet, and hand beach seine gear may be operated only as follows:
(A) only a fish wheel equipped with a livebox
				  may be used and must be operated as follows:
(i) the livebox must be constructed so that
				  it contains no less than 45 cubic feet of water volume while it is in
				  operation;
(ii) for the purpose of
				  this subparagraph, a "livebox" is a submerged container attached to the fish
				  wheel that will keep fish caught by the fish wheel alive;
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 05 - Yukon Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 05.369 - Yukon River Coho Salmon Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The goal of
				  this plan is to provide for the management of directed commercial coho salmon
				  fishing in the Yukon River. The majority of Yukon River coho salmon spawn in
				  tributaries that flow into the Yukon River from the mouth of the Yukon River up
				  to and including the Tanana River drainage. The management of directed coho
				  salmon fishing during the fall season is complicated by an overlapping run of
				  more abundant fall chum salmon stocks.
(b) For the purpose of (c) of this section,
				  the department shall use the best available information to assess coho salmon
				  abundance, including mainstem river sonar passage estimates, test fisheries
				  indices, subsistence and commercial fishing reports, and estimates from
				  escapement monitoring projects.
(c)
				  The department may allow a directed coho salmon fishery under this section in
				  years when
(1) the return of coho salmon
				  measured under (b) of this section is projected to provide for a harvestable
				  surplus;
(2) the fall chum salmon
				  return is assessed by the department to be more than 500,000 fish;
(3) repealed 6/21/2007.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 05 - Yukon Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 05.370 - Registration and reregistration

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) A CFEC limited
				  entry or interim-use salmon permit holder shall register for a fishing district
				  described in
				  5 AAC 05.200 as follows:
(1) In Districts 4, 5, and 6, initial
				  district registration is accomplished by indicating on the fish ticket used for
				  the first delivery of the season the district in which the permit holder first
				  took salmon;
(2) in Districts 1, 2,
				  and 3,
(A) through July 15, initial district
				  registration is accomplished by indicating on the fish ticket used for the
				  first delivery of the season the district in which the permit holder first took
				  salmon;
(B) after July 15, in that
				  portion of District 1 not included in the set gillnet only area described in
				  5 AAC 05.330(a), and in Districts 2 and
				  3, initial district registration is accomplished by indicating on the fish
				  ticket used for the first delivery made after July 15 the district in which the
				  permit holder first took salmon.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 05 - Yukon Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 05.375 - Permits for District 6 salmon processors

Current through May 31, 2024
The operator of a salmon-processing operation, and a
					 company employing aircraft used for transporting salmon or salmon products, in
					 District 6, must obtain a permit from the department before starting
					 operations. The permit must contain the following:
(1) procedures and requirements for the
				  reporting of location and date of processing operations to the
				  department;
(2) the identity and
				  description of each aircraft and vessel employed in the transporting of salmon
				  or salmon products;
(3) permission
				  for local representatives of the department to inspect, at any time, aircraft
				  and vessels used for transporting salmon; storage areas; freezers; processing
				  areas; processing records; and processed and unprocessed salmon; and
(4) other information required by the
				  department for the conservation and management of the salmon resources or for
				  enforcement of fishing laws.
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Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 05 - Yukon Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 05.377 - Reporting requirements

Current through May 31, 2024
In Subdistrict 6-C, each commercial salmon fisherman shall
					 report, on an ADF&G fish ticket, the number of salmon taken but not sold
					 during each commercial salmon fishing period.
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Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 05 - Yukon Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 05.380 - Unlawful possession of subsistence-taken salmon

Current through May 31, 2024
It is unlawful to purchase salmon from which both tips
					 (lobes) of the tail fin have been removed as required by
					 5 AAC 01.240(c). Possession of salmon
					 taken for subsistence purposes from which both tips (lobes) of the tail fin
					 have not been removed is prima facie evidence that the salmon was taken and
					 possessed for commercial purposes.
Authority:
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Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 06 - Bristol Bay Area › Article 1 - Description of Area › 5 AAC 06.001 - Application of this chapter

Current through May 31, 2024
Requirements set out in this chapter apply to commercial
					 fishing only, unless otherwise specified. Subsistence, personal use, and sport
					 fishing regulations affecting commercial fishing vessels or affecting any other
					 commercial fishing activity are set out in the subsistence fishing regulations
					 in 5 AAC 01 and 5 AAC 02, personal use fishing regulations in 5 AAC 77, and
					 sport fishing regulations in 5 AAC 67 and 5 AAC 75.
Authority:
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Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 06 - Bristol Bay Area › Article 1 - Description of Area › 5 AAC 06.100 - Description of area

Current through May 31, 2024
The Bristol Bay Area consists of all waters of Alaska in
					 Bristol Bay including drainages enclosed by a line from Cape Newenham at
					 58° 38.88' N. lat., 162° 10.51' W. long., to Cape Menshikof at 57°
					 28.34' N. lat., 157° 55.84' W, long.
Authority:
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Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 06 - Bristol Bay Area › Article 2 - Fishing Districts and Sections › 5 AAC 06.200 - Fishing districts and sections

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Nushagak
				  District: all waters of Nushagak Bay north of a line from a point at Nichols
				  Hills at 58° 33.77' N. lat., 158° 46.57' W. long. to Etolin Point at
				  58° 39.37' N. lat., 158° 19.31' W. long., and the Wood River Special
				  Harvest Area,
(1) Igushik Section: all waters
				  of Nushagak Bay enclosed by a line from a point at Nichols Hills at 58°
				  33.77' N. lat., 158° 46.57' W. long., to a point at 58° 36.28' N. lat.,
				  158° 34.40' W. long., to a point at 58° 44.80' N. lat., 158° 41.50'
				  W. long., to a point at 58° 46.13' N. lat., 158° 46.65' W.
				  long.;
(2) Snake River Section: all
				  waters enclosed by a line from 58° 52.90' N. lat., 158° 43.30' W. long.
				  to 58° 44.80' N. lat., 158° 41.50' W. long. to 58° 46.13' N. lat.,
				  158° 46.65' W. long.;
(3)
				  Nushagak Section: all waters of the Nushagak District not described in (1) and
				  (2) of this subsection.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 06 - Bristol Bay Area › Article 2 - Fishing Districts and Sections › 5 AAC 06.205 - Use of Loran C (Repealed)

Current through May 31, 2024
In 2001, boundaries, lines and coordinates in the Bristol
						Bay Area based on Loran C were converted to latitude and longitude coordinates
						identified with the global positioning system
						(GPS).
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 06 - Bristol Bay Area › Article 2 - Fishing Districts and Sections › 5 AAC 06.206 - Use of global positioning system (GPS)

Current through May 31, 2024
In the Bristol Bay Area, boundaries, lines, and coordinates
					 are identified with the global positioning system (GPS). If the global
					 positioning system is not operating, the boundaries, lines, and coordinates are
					 as identified by ADF&G regulatory markers.
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Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 06 - Bristol Bay Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 06.310 - Fishing seasons

Current through May 31, 2024
Salmon may be taken only from June 1 through September 30
					 and only during open commercial salmon fishing periods.
Authority:
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Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 06 - Bristol Bay Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 06.320 - Fishing periods

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) In the Togiak District, salmon may be
				  taken only as follows:
(1) in the Cape
				  Peirce, Osviak, and Matogak Sections, from 9:00 a.m. Monday to 9:00 a.m.
				  Saturday;
(2) in the Kulukak
				  Section, from 9:00 a.m. Monday to 9:00 p.m. Wednesday;
(3) in the Togiak River Section, from 9:00
				  a.m. Monday to 9:00 a.m. Friday, except as provided in
				  5 AAC 06.369(c) (1).
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 06 - Bristol Bay Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 06.330 - Gear

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Salmon may be taken with set and drift
				  gillnets only in the districts described in
				  5 AAC 06.200. Salmon may be taken with set gillnets on
				  the northwest shore of Kvichak Bay from the Naknek-Kvichak District boundary
				  south to 58º 43.80' N. lat., 157º 42.70' W. long.
(b) Repealed 3/8/74.
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Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 06 - Bristol Bay Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 06.331 - Gillnet specifications and operations

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Gillnet mesh
				  size restrictions are as follows:
(1) gillnet
				  mesh size may not exceed five and one-half inches during periods established by
				  emergency order for the protection of king salmon and in the Naknek-Kvichak and
				  Ugashik Districts from June 1 through July 22;
(2) gillnet mesh size may not be less than
				  five and three-eighths inches during periods established by emergency order for
				  the protection of pink salmon;
(3)
				  gillnet mesh size may not exceed four and three-quarters inches during periods
				  established by emergency order for the protection of sockeye and coho
				  salmon;
(4) gillnet mesh size may
				  not be less than seven and one-half inches during periods established by
				  emergency order for the protection of sockeye salmon;
(5) from 9:00 a.m. June 15 to 9:00 a.m. July
				  15, mesh size restrictions for the Togiak District are as provided in
				  5 AAC 06.369(d);
(6) from June 1 through July 1, mesh size
				  restrictions for the Egegik District are specified in
				  5 AAC 06.365(e).
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 06 - Bristol Bay Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 06.333 - Requirements and specifications for use of 200 fathoms of drift gillnet in Bristol Bay

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Two Bristol Bay drift gillnet CFEC permit
				  holders may concurrently fish from the same vessel and jointly operate up to
				  200 fathoms of drift gillnet gear under this section, except
(1) in the Togiak District;
(2) in a special harvest area;
(3) repealed 6/21/2020.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 06 - Bristol Bay Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 06.334 - Identification of gear

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Each drift gillnet in operation must have
(1) at each end, except an end attached to
				  the vessel operating the gear, a red keg, buoy, or cluster of floats plainly
				  and legibly marked with the permanent vessel license plate (ADF&G) number
				  of the vessel operating the gear in permanent symbols at least four inches high
				  with lines at least one-half inch wide in a color that contrasts with the
				  background; and
(2) at least one
				  cork every 10 fathoms along the cork line that is plainly and legibly marked
				  with the permanent vessel license plate (ADF&G) number of the vessel
				  operating the gear.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 06 - Bristol Bay Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 06.335 - Minimum distance between units of gear

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) In the
				  Naknek-Kvichak, Egegik, Ugashik, and Togiak Districts, no part of a set gillnet
				  may be set or operated within 300 feet of any part of another set gillnet. In
				  the Nushagak District, no part of a set gillnet may be set or operated within
				  450 feet of any part of another set gillnet. The provisions of this subsection
				  do not prohibit a CFEC permi1 holder from operating a set gillnet seaward of
				  another set gillnet operated under the authority of the same CFEC
				  permit.
(b) No part of a drift
				  gillnet may be operated within 300 feet of the side of a set gillnet and within
				  100 feet of the offshore end of a set gillnet. The 100-foot restriction does
				  not apply seaward of the offshore setnet distance restrictions set out in
				  5 AAC 06.331(m) and (n).
(c) In the Nushagak District, no part of a
				  drift gillnet may be operated within 100 feet of the inshore end of a set
				  gillnet, except that in the locations described in
				  5 AAC 06.331(n), no part of a drift
				  gillnet may be operated inshore of a set gillnet.
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Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 06 - Bristol Bay Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 06.341 - Vessel specifications and operations

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) No vessel
				  registered for salmon net fishing may be more than 32 feet in overall length.
				  An anchor roller may not extend more than eight inches beyond the 32-foot
				  overall length, and any portion that extends beyond the 32-foot overall length
				  may not be more than eight inches in width or height.
(b) For the purposes of this section,
(1) "anchor roller" means a device used
				  solely in aid of deploying and retrieving anchor gear, and does not provide any
				  additional flotation, planing surface, or structural support to the
				  vessel;
(2) "fish drop-out basket"
				  means a device used solely to prevent the loss of fish from a gillnet after the
				  fish leaves the water and before it is brought on board the vessel; a "fish
				  drop-out basket" does not provide any additional flotation, planing surface, or
				  structural support to the vessel;
(3) "gillnet roller" means a device used
				  solely in aid of deploying and retrieving drift gillnet gear; a "gillnet
				  roller" does not provide any additional flotation or planing surface to the
				  vessel;
(4) "outdrive" means part
				  of the propulsion system of a vessel used for either steering or thrust; an
				  "outdrive" does not provide any additional flotation or planing surface to the
				  vessel;
(5) "outdrive guard" means
				  a device of skeletal construction used solely to protect the outdrive unit of a
				  vessel; an "outdrive guard" does not provide any additional flotation or
				  planing surface and is not used for any other purpose such as a bench,
				  platform, or storage area;
(6)
				  "overall length" means the straight-line measurement between the extremities of
				  the vessel, but does not include fish drop-out baskets, anchor rollers, gillnet
				  rollers, trim tabs, outdrives, or outdrive guards;
(7) "trim tabs" means an extension of the
				  bottom of a vessel, at the transom, which is no more than 18 inches long at its
				  longest point; "trim tabs" do not provide any increased flotation, and their
				  sole function is to provide trim to a vessel while underway.