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Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 55 - Prince William Sound Area › 5 AAC 55.025 - Use of pink and chum salmon as bait in the Prince William Sound Area

Current through May 31, 2024
Notwithstanding
				  5 AAC 75.026, in the Prince William Sound Area, pink and
				  chum salmon taken in a sport fishery may be used for bait in a sport, personal
				  use, or subsistence fishery.
Authority:
AS
					 16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 55 - Prince William Sound Area › 5 AAC 55.030 - Methods, means, and general provisions - finfish

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Repealed
				5/11/2003.
(b) Repealed
				3/16/2000.
(c) Repealed
				5/11/2003.
(d) Repealed
				5/11/2003.
As of Register 166, July 2003, the substance of former
					 5 AAC 55.030(a), (c), and (d) appear in
					 5 AAC 55.022.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 55 - Prince William Sound Area › 5 AAC 55.035 - Methods, means, and general provisions - shellfish (Repealed)

Current through May 31, 2024
As of Register 166, July 2003, the substance of former
					 5 AAC 55.035 appears in
					 5 AAC 55.022.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 55 - Prince William Sound Area › 5 AAC 55.050 - Waters closed to sport fishing

Current through May 31, 2024
The Prince William Sound Area is closed to sport fishing for
				  Dungeness, king, and Tanner crab.
Authority:
AS
					 16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 55 - Prince William Sound Area › 5 AAC 55.055 - Prince William Sound noncommercial shrimp fishery management plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The
				department shall manage the sport and other noncommercial shrimp fisheries in
				the Prince William Sound Area as follows:
(1)
				the guideline harvest level for shrimp taken by pot gear in noncommercial
				fisheries is calculated as 60 percent of the total allowable harvest for the
				area;
(2) a harvest recording form
				is required as specified in
				5 AAC 75.016; a person who fails to comply with the
				reporting requirements of this subsection or
				5 AAC 75.016, including any requirement to return harvest
				and catch information to the department, is ineligible to obtain a shrimp
				harvest recording form during the following season in the fishery for which the
				form was required, unless the permit applicant demonstrates to the department
				that failure to report was due to unavoidable circumstances;
(3) shrimp may be taken with pots as follows:
(A) only from April 15 through September
				15;
(B) no bag, possession, or size
				limit;
(C) no more than five pots
				per vessel may be used to take shrimp.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 55 - Prince William Sound Area › 5 AAC 55.095 - Application of regulations

Current through May 31, 2024
The regulations in this chapter also apply in the adjoining
				  waters of the exclusive economic zone.
Authority:
AS
					 16.05.251
AS
					 16.10.190
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 56 - Kenai Peninsula Area › 5 AAC 56.016 - King salmon annual punchcard; yearly limit (Repealed)

Current through May 31, 2024
5 AAC 56.016 was repealed by
					 emergency regulation effective April 30, 1991. On May 30, 1991, the Superior
					 Court found the repeal invalid as an emergency regulation. Therefore, the
					 repeal was not published in Register 118 (July 1991). The repeal subsequently
					 was filed as a "regular" regulation.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 56 - Kenai Peninsula Area › 5 AAC 56.038 - Authorization for methods and means disability exemptions (Repealed)

Current through May 31, 2024
As of Register 169, April 2004, the substance of former
					 5 AAC 56.038 was moved to
					 5 AAC 75.038 in order to apply on a statewide
					 basis.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 56 - Kenai Peninsula Area › 5 AAC 56.101 - Application of this chapter

Current through May 31, 2024
The provisions of this chapter apply to sport fishing for
				  finfish in the fresh waters of the Kenai Peninsula, except those waters east of
				  and including Ingram Creek and those waters of the Kenai River Drainage Area
				  described in
				  5 AAC 57.105.
Authority:
AS
					 16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 56 - Kenai Peninsula Area › 5 AAC 56.105 - Description of the Kenai Peninsula Area

Current through May 31, 2024
The Kenai Peninsula Area consists of all freshwater drainages
				  of the Kenai Peninsula west of a line from Cape Fairfield (148º 50.25' W.
				  long.) to the west bank of the mouth of Ingram Creek, excluding Ingram Creek
				  and the Kenai River Drainage Area described in
				  5 AAC 57.105.
Authority:
AS
					 16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 56 - Kenai Peninsula Area › 5 AAC 56.120 - General provisions for seasons, bag, possession, annual, and size limits, and methods and means for the Kenai Peninsula Area

Current through May 31, 2024
Unless otherwise specified in
				  5 AAC 56.122 or by an emergency order issued under
				  AS
				  16.05.060, the following are the general
				  seasons, bag, possession, annual, and size limits, and methods and means that
				  apply to sport fishing for finfish in the Kenai Peninsula Area:
(1) king salmon
(A) 20 inches or greater in length may not be
				retained or possessed; the season is closed for king salmon 20 inches or
				greater in length; a king salmon caught that is 20 inches or greater in length
				must be released immediately; a person may not remove a king salmon from the
				water before releasing the fish;
(B) less than 20 inches in length
(i) in flowing waters and unstocked lakes and
				ponds, may not be retained or possessed; king salmon less than 20 inches in
				length that are caught must be released immediately and returned to the water
				unharmed; a person may not remove a king salmon from the water before releasing
				the fish;
(ii) from January 1 -
				December 31, may be taken in stocked lakes and ponds; bag and possession limit
				of 10 fish; for the purpose of this sub-subparagraph, "stocked lakes and ponds"
				means Arc Lake, Aurora Lake, Barbara Lake, Cabin Lake, Centennial Lake, Chugach
				Estates Lake, Douglas Lake, Elephant Lake, Encelewski Lake, Island Lake, John
				Hedberg Lake, Johnson Lake, Longmere Lake, Loon Lake, Rogue Lake, Scout Lake,
				Sport Lake, Thetis Lake, Tirmore Lake, Troop Lake, and Upper Summit
				Lake;
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 56 - Kenai Peninsula Area › 5 AAC 56.124 - Harvest record required; annual limits for the Kenai Peninsula Area (Repealed)

Current through May 31, 2024
In Register 209, April 2014, the provisions of
					 5 AAC 56.124 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 rainbow trout/steelhead appear in the general
					 provisions in
					 5 AAC 56.120 and for king salmon in the special
					 provisions in
					 5 AAC 56.122.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 56 - Kenai Peninsula Area › 5 AAC 56.130 - Anchor River, Deep Creek, and Ninilchik River king salmon sport fishery management plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The purpose of
				this management plan is to direct the department in the management of the sport
				fishery for king salmon stocks in Anchor River, Deep Creek, and Ninilchik
				River, using the Anchor River preseason forecast and inseason projections from
				the Anchor River and Ninilchik River department monitoring projects of
				salmon.
(b) The department shall
				manage the sport fisheries in each drainage to achieve the sustainable
				escapement goal (SEG) established for each of the three stocks while providing
				sustainable fishing opportunities and maximizing the harvest of hatchery king
				salmon. Additionally, the department shall manage the Ninilchik River to
				prioritize collecting naturally-produced king salmon as defined in
				5 AAC 56.122(c)(4) and hatchery
				broodstock.
(c) In Anchor River and
				Deep Creek,
(1) the area, seasons, bag,
				possession, annual and size limits, and methods and means for king salmon are
				described in
				5 AAC 56.122;
(2) if the Anchor River preseason forecast is
				less than the lower end of the sustainable escapement goal of 3,200 - 6,400
				fish, the department shall close the Anchor River and Deep Creek to sport
				fishing during the season as specified in
				5 AAC 56.122(a)(2)(E) and (5)(D), and
				from July 1 - July 15;
(3) if the
				Anchor River preseason forecast is greater than the lower end of the
				sustainable escapement goal of 3,200 - 6,400 fish and less than 4,800 fish, the
				department shall close the sport fishery for king salmon in the Anchor River
				and Deep Creek to the retention of king salmon and restrict gear to only one
				unbaited, single-hook, artificial lure;
(4) if the Anchor River preseason forecast is
				greater than 4,800 fish, the department may open the sport fishery for king
				salmon in the Anchor River and Deep Creek as described in
				5 AAC 56.122;
(5) if the Anchor River inseason projection
				is less than the lower end of the sustainable escapement goal of 3,200 - 6,400
				fish after June 1, the department shall close the Anchor River and Deep Creek
				to sport fishing during the season as specified in
				5 AAC 56.122(a)(2)(E) and (5)(D), and
				from July 1 - July 15;
(6) if the
				Anchor River inseason projection is greater than the lower end of the
				sustainable escapement goal of 3,200 - 6,400 fish and less than 4,800 fish
				after June 1, the department shall close the Anchor River and Deep Creek to the
				retention of king salmon and restrict gear to only one unbaited, single-hook,
				artificial lure;
(7) if the Anchor
				River inseason projection is greater than 4,800 fish after June 1, the
				department may open the sport fishery for king salmon in the Anchor River and
				Deep Creek as described in
				5 AAC 56.122.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 56 - Kenai Peninsula Area › 5 AAC 56.140 - Kasilof River guiding and guided fishing requirements

Current through May 31, 2024
In addition to the provisions of
				  5 AAC 57.160 and this chapter applicable to the Kasilof
				  River, from January 1 through July 31, the guided sport fishery for early-run
				  and late-run Kasilof River king salmon will be managed as follows:
(1) a sport fishing guide may not sport fish:
(A) from a vessel while a client is present
				or is within the sport fishing guide's control or responsibility; and
(B) in the area designated from ADF&G
				markers at the mouth of Crooked Creek downstream to the ADF&G markers near
				the cutbank while a client is present or is within the sport fishing guide's
				control or responsibility;
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 56 - Kenai Peninsula Area › 5 AAC 56.175 - Invasive Northern Pike Management Plan for the Kenai Peninsula Area

Current through May 31, 2024
The department shall manage invasive northern pike in the
				  waters of the Kenai Peninsula Area to minimize the impacts on indigenous fish
				  stocks and recreational fisheries. Waters containing invasive northern pike
				  will be managed so that there is a reasonable expectation of high catch rates
				  and harvesting daily bag limits. Notwithstanding any other provision of this
				  chapter, the commissioner may, by emergency order, change bag and possession
				  limits and alter method and means for northern pike to aid in control of
				  invasive northern pike.
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 56 - Kenai Peninsula Area › 5 AAC 56.180 - Riparian Habitat Fishery Management Plan for the Kenai Peninsula Area

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The
				Board of Fisheries (board) finds that freshwater fisheries in upper Cook Inlet,
				including the Kenai Peninsula Area, subject to access limitations of federal,
				state, and local landowners, are a recognized use of the fishery resources of
				upper Cook Inlet. The board also finds that, in some situations, freshwater
				fisheries negatively affect riparian habitats of upper Cook Inlet.
(b) The board recognizes the importance of
				maintaining the structural and functional integrity of upper Cook Inlet
				riparian habitats. Given this, the board will consider, as part of its
				deliberations, avoidable impacts to upper Cook Inlet riparian habitats related
				to sport fishing.
(c) If the
				commissioner determines that freshwater fisheries are likely to result in
				riparian habitat loss that could negatively affect the fishery resources of
				upper Cook Inlet, the commissioner may close, by emergency order, those
				riparian areas to fishing. This authority extends only to riparian areas in
				which there is a state, federal, or municipal property interest. The
				commissioner may reopen, by emergency order, those riparian areas to fishing if
				the commissioner determines that an opening will not compromise the integrity
				of the riparian habitats the emergency order is designed to protect. During
				seasons in areas opened by emergency order, the commissioner may establish
				fishing periods and may designate any or all of the following as locations from
				which fishing may occur:
(1) boats;
(2) boardwalks or similar
				structures;
(3) docks;
(4) gravel bars;
(5) natural formations identified by the
				commissioner;
(6) other areas
				identified by the commissioner as areas where use for fishing will not
				compromise the integrity of the habitat the closure is designed to
				protect.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 56 - Kenai Peninsula Area › 5 AAC 56.195 - Criteria for establishing special management areas for Dolly Varden in the Kenai Peninsula Area

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The Board of Fisheries (board) may
				consider proposals for regulations designating and dealing with special
				management areas for bodies of water in the Kenai Peninsula Area that would
				diversify sport fishing opportunity for populations of wild Dolly Varden, such
				as catch-and-release, fly-fishing-only, or trophy designation.
(b) In making determinations on regulatory
				proposals dealing with a special management area under (a) of this section, the
				board will consider the following criteria:
(1) stock status: the body of water must
				contain Dolly Varden populations that are naturally reproducing and possess
				some unique characteristic; the Dolly Varden populations must be shown to have
				maintained historical size and age composition, and numbers of Dolly Varden, or
				the area must have retained the habitat attributes necessary to allow these
				population characteristics to return to historical levels;
(2) history of quality fishing: a body of
				water that the public perceives as having provided quality Dolly Varden fishing
				will be preferred over a body of water that is not so perceived;
(3) proximity to a community: to avoid
				conflict with traditional consumptive use patterns by local residents, a body
				of water located near enough to a permanent community to be commonly used or
				visited by local residents will not be preferred, unless the establishment of
				the body of water as a special management area is requested or supported by the
				community;
(4) legal access: a body
				of water with more than 50 percent of its uplands publicly owned or that is
				determined to be navigable will be preferred;
(5) conflict with freshwater net fisheries: a
				body of water with a Dolly Varden fishery that is seasonally or spatially
				segregated from subsistence, personal use, and commercial net fisheries will be
				preferred;
(6) abundance and size
				of the Dolly Varden population: a body of water with unusually high numbers of
				Dolly Varden, with uniquely large Dolly Varden, or documented as having Dolly
				Varden that have been entered in the department's trophy fish program will be
				preferred;
(7) clear geographical
				boundaries: a body of water with clearly distinguishable legal regulatory
				boundaries will be preferred;
(8)
				relative economic importance of the wild Dolly Varden fishery: a body of water
				with a Dolly Varden fishery of high economic value to the state will be
				preferred;
(9) geographical
				distribution of special management waters: the proximity of a body of water to
				other special management waters and the availability of alternative locations
				not designated for special management;
(10) special research or educational needs:
				the need for a body of water for special management research or educational
				reasons.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 57 - Kenai River Drainage Area › 5 AAC 57.101 - Application of this chapter

Current through May 31, 2024
The provisions of this chapter apply to sport fishing for
				  finfish in the Kenai River drainage.
Authority:
AS
					 16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 57 - Kenai River Drainage Area › 5 AAC 57.105 - Description of the Kenai River Drainage Area

Current through May 31, 2024
The Kenai River Drainage Area consists of the Kenai River
				  drainage.
Authority:
AS
					 16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 57 - Kenai River Drainage Area › 5 AAC 57.106 - Description of Kenai River Drainage Area sections

Current through May 31, 2024
The following are the sport fishing sections of the Kenai
				  River Drainage Area:
(1) Lower
				Section: waters upstream from a line at the mouth of the Kenai River from No
				Name Creek on the north shore to an ADF&G regulatory marker on the south
				shore to Skilak Lake, including Skilak Lake, but not including the waters of
				Skilak Lake within a one-half mile radius of the Kenai River inlet;
(2) Middle Section: waters of Skilak Lake
				within a one-half mile radius of the Kenai River inlet, upstream to the
				Sterling Highway Bridge at the outlet of Kenai Lake;
(3) Upper Section: waters upstream of the
				Sterling Highway Bridge at the outlet of Kenai Lake, including Kenai Lake, and
				all stream and lakes that flow into Kenai Lake.
Authority:
AS
					 16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 57 - Kenai River Drainage Area › 5 AAC 57.122 - Special provisions and localized additions and exceptions to the seasons, bag, possession, and size limits, and methods and means for the Middle Section of the Kenai River Drainage Area

Current through May 31, 2024
Unless otherwise specified by an emergency order issued
				  under AS
				  16.05.060, the following are special
				  provisions and localized exceptions to the general seasons, bag, possession,
				  and size limits, and methods and means set out in
				  5 AAC 57.120 and 5 AAC 75 for the Middle Section of the
				  Kenai River Drainage Area:
(1) the
				following waters of the Middle Section are closed to sport fishing, as follows:
(A) from May 1 - June 10, the Kenai River
				from the waters of Skilak Lake within a one-half mile radius of the Kenai River
				inlet, upstream to the downstream edge of the Sterling Highway Bridge at the
				outlet of Kenai Lake;
(B) from May
				1 - June 10, and from September 15 - October 31, the flowing waters of Cooper
				Creek;
(C) repealed
				6/8/2017;
(D) repealed
				6/8/2017;
(E) repealed
				6/8/2017;
(F) repealed
				6/8/2017;
(G) from May 1 - June 10, and from August 1 - August 31, the Upper Russian (Goat) Creek upstream from
				an ADF&G regulatory marker located approximately 300 yards from its
				confluence with Upper Russian Lake;
(H) from May 1 - June 10, the flowing waters
				of Jean Lake Creek, Hidden Lake Creek, Juneau Creek, and the Russian River from
				its mouth upstream 100 yards to ADF&G regulatory markers, excluding Upper
				Russian (Goat) Creek;
(I) repealed
				6/8/2017;
(J) from September 15 -
				November 30, Hidden Lake;
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 57 - Kenai River Drainage Area › 5 AAC 57.123 - Special provisions and localized additions and exceptions to the seasons, bag, possession, and size limits, and methods and means for the Upper Section of the Kenai River Drainage Area

Current through May 31, 2024
Unless otherwise specified by an emergency order issued
				  under AS
				  16.05.060, the following are special
				  provisions and localized exceptions to the general seasons, bag, possession,
				  and size limits, and methods and means set out in
				  5 AAC 57.120 and 5 AAC 75 for the Upper Section of the
				  Kenai River Drainage Area:
(1) Kenai
				Lake from the Sterling Highway Bridge at the outlet, upstream to ADF&G
				regulatory markers located approximately one-quarter mile upstream, is open to
				sport fishing only from June 11 - April 30;
(2) in Kenai Lake within one-quarter mile of
				the Sterling Highway Bridge at the outlet
(A)
				only one unbaited, single-hook, artificial lure may be used;
(B) the bag and possession limit for
				rainbow/steelhead trout is one fish less than 16 inches in length;
				rainbow/steelhead trout 16 inches or greater in length may not be retained;
				rainbow/steelhead trout caught that are 16 inches or greater in length must be
				released immediately and returned to the water unharmed;
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 57 - Kenai River Drainage Area › 5 AAC 57.124 - Harvest record required; annual limits for the Kenai River Drainage Area (Repealed)

Current through May 31, 2024
In Register 209, April 2014, the provisions of
					 5 AAC 57.124 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 trout/steelhead appear
					 in the general provisions in
					 5 AAC 57.120.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 57 - Kenai River Drainage Area › 5 AAC 57.130 - Anchor dragging prohibited in the Kenai River

Current through May 31, 2024
A person may not engage in sport fishing on the Kenai River
				  from an anchored vessel unless the anchor is holding the vessel in a
				  substantially fixed position relative to the bottom of the river. If the anchor
				  fails to hold the vessel in a substantially fixed position relative to the
				  bottom of the river, during sport fishing activities, all persons aboard the
				  vessel must immediately cease sport fishing by removing their fishing gear from
				  the water, and the anchor must be retrieved or other actions must be taken to
				  cause the anchor to again hold the vessel in a substantially fixed position
				  relative to the bottom of the river before any person aboard the vessel may
				  resume sport fishing.
Authority:
AS
					 16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 57 - Kenai River Drainage Area › 5 AAC 57.150 - Russian River Sockeye Salmon Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The purpose of
				this management plan is to ensure an adequate escapement, as determined by the
				department, of sockeye salmon into the Russian River system and to provide
				management guidelines to the department to reduce conflicts between various
				users of this resource. Because early and late Russian River system sockeye
				salmon are discrete stocks with established escapement goals, these stocks
				shall be managed by the department as a separate entity without regard to Kenai
				River system sockeye salmon run size, except as specified in this
				section.
(b) Early Russian River
				sockeye salmon stocks have been harvested primarily by the sport fishery since
				1974. Since the bulk of the early Kenai River sockeye salmon run (those salmon
				passing the department sonar counter located near Soldotna before June 21) is
				comprised of Russian River sockeye salmon stocks, the department shall manage
				the early sockeye salmon stocks to achieve the escapement goals for the Kenai
				and Russian Rivers.
(c) Late
				Russian River sockeye salmon stocks are harvested in the Cook Inlet commercial
				salmon gillnet and the Kenai and Russian Rivers sport fisheries. The department
				shall manage the fisheries to achieve the escapement goal of sockeye salmon
				into the Russian River upstream of the department's counting weir at the outlet
				of Lower Russian Lake. If inseason restrictions are necessary to meet the
				escapement goal, the department shall restrict Kenai River drainage sport
				fisheries as described in (d) of this section. Since, at present, it is not
				possible to separate the harvest of late Russian River sockeye salmon from
				other sockeye salmon stocks in Cook Inlet, restrictions on the commercial
				fishery to conserve Russian River sockeye salmon and meet the escapement goal
				shall be limited to meeting the inriver goals for the Kenai River late-run
				sockeye salmon, as specified in
				5 AAC 21.360.
(d) If the department is not able to project
				that the escapement goal of late-run Russian River sockeye salmon will be
				achieved the commissioner shall, by emergency order, modify the Kenai River
				drainage sport and personal use fisheries to achieve the escapement goal by
				using the following options, selected at the discretion of the commissioner:
(1) a reduction of bag and possession limit
				to two or one sockeye salmon in all waters of the Kenai and Russian Rivers
				fly-fishing-only waters;
(2) a
				prohibition on sockeye salmon fishing in the Kenai and Russian Rivers
				fly-fishing-only waters upstream from the ferry crossing on the Kenai
				River;
(3) a prohibition on sockeye
				salmon fishing in all waters of the Kenai and Russian Rivers fly-fishing-only
				waters;
(4) a prohibition on
				sockeye salmon fishing from the confluence of the Kenai and Russian Rivers
				downstream to, and including, Skilak Lake.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 57 - Kenai River Drainage Area › 5 AAC 57.170 - Kenai River Coho Salmon Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The purpose of
				this management plan is to ensure an adequate escapement of coho salmon into
				the Kenai River drainage and to provide management guidelines to the
				department. The department shall manage the Kenai River coho salmon stocks
				primarily to provide sport and guided sport fishermen with a reasonable
				opportunity to harvest these salmon resources over the entire run.
(b) Notwithstanding any other provisions in
				this chapter, for the conservation of coho salmon stocks, the department shall
				manage sport fishing in the Kenai River drainage as follows:
(1) coho salmon fishing is closed in the
				Middle and Upper Sections from November 1 through June 30, and in the Lower
				Section from December 1 through June 30; any coho salmon caught incidentally
				must be released immediately without further harm;
(2) repealed 6/4/2008;
(3) coho salmon may be taken as follows:
(A) from July 1 through October 31, in the
				Middle and Upper Sections;
(B) from
				July 1 through November 30, in the Lower Section;
(C) from July 1 through August 31, the daily
				bag and possession limit for coho salmon 16 inches or greater in length is two
				fish;
(D) from September 1 through
				November 30, the daily bag and possession limit for coho salmon 16 inches or
				greater in length is three fish.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 57 - Kenai River Drainage Area › 5 AAC 57.175 - Invasive Northern Pike Management Plan for the Kenai River Drainage Area

Current through May 31, 2024
The department shall manage invasive northern pike in the
				  waters of the Kenai River Drainage Area to minimize the impacts on indigenous
				  fish stocks and recreational fisheries. Waters containing invasive northern
				  pike will be managed so that there is a reasonable expectation of high catch
				  rates and harvesting daily bag limits. Notwithstanding any other provision of
				  this chapter, the commissioner may, by emergency order, change bag and
				  possession limits and alter method and means for northern pike to aid in
				  control of invasive northern pike.
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 57 - Kenai River Drainage Area › 5 AAC 57.180 - Riparian Habitat Fishery Management Plan for the Kenai River Drainage Area

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The Board of
				Fisheries (board) finds that freshwater fisheries in upper Cook Inlet,
				including the Kenai River Drainage Area, subject to access limitations of
				federal, state, and local landowners, are a recognized use of the fishery
				resources of upper Cook Inlet. The board also finds that, in some situations,
				freshwater fisheries negatively affect riparian habitats of upper Cook
				Inlet.
(b) The board recognizes the
				importance of maintaining the structural and functional integrity of upper Cook
				Inlet riparian habitats. Given this, the board will consider, as part of its
				deliberations, avoidable impacts to upper Cook Inlet riparian habitats related
				to sport fishing.
(c) If the
				commissioner determines that freshwater fisheries are likely to result in
				riparian habitat loss which could negatively affect the fishery resources of
				upper Cook Inlet, the commissioner may close, by emergency order, those
				riparian areas to fishing. This authority extends only to riparian areas in
				which there is a state, federal, or municipal property interest. The
				commissioner may reopen, by emergency order, those riparian areas to fishing if
				the commissioner determines that an opening will not compromise the integrity
				of the riparian habitats the emergency order is designed to protect. During
				seasons in areas opened by emergency order, the commissioner may establish
				fishing periods and may designate any or all of the following as locations from
				which fishing may occur:
(1) boats;
(2) boardwalks or similar
				structures;
(3) docks;
(4) gravel bars;
(5) natural formations identified by the
				commissioner;
(6) other areas
				identified by the commissioner as areas where use for fishing will not
				compromise the integrity of the habitat the closure is designed to
				protect.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 58 - Cook Inlet - Resurrection Bay Saltwater Area › 5 AAC 58.001 - Application of this chapter

Current through May 31, 2024
This chapter applies to saltwater sport fishing in the Cook
				  Inlet-Resurrection Bay Saltwater Area.
Authority:
AS
					 16.05.251(a)
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 58 - Cook Inlet - Resurrection Bay Saltwater Area › 5 AAC 58.005 - Description of the Cook Inlet - Resurrection Bay Saltwater Area

Current through May 31, 2024
The Cook Inlet - Resurrection Bay Saltwater Area consists of
				  all waters of Alaska, excluding freshwater drainages, enclosed by a line
				  extending south from Cape Fairfield (148º 50.25' W. long.), and a line
				  extending east from Cape Douglas (58º 51.10' N. lat.).
Authority:
AS
					 16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 58 - Cook Inlet - Resurrection Bay Saltwater Area › 5 AAC 58.016 - King salmon annual punchcard; yearly limit (Repealed)

Current through May 31, 2024
5 AAC 58.016 was repealed by
					 emergency regulation effective April 30, 1991. On May 30, 1991 the Superior
					 Court found the repeal invalid as an emergency regulation. Therefore, the
					 repeal was not published in Register 118 (July 1991). The repeal subsequently
					 was filed as a "regular" regulation.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 58 - Cook Inlet - Resurrection Bay Saltwater Area › 5 AAC 58.024 - Harvest record required; annual limits (Repealed)

Current through May 31, 2024
In Register 209, April 2014, the provisions of
					 5 AAC 58.024 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 appear in
					 5 AAC 58.022.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 58 - Cook Inlet - Resurrection Bay Saltwater Area › 5 AAC 58.025 - Use of pink salmon as bait in the Cook Inlet-Resurrection Bay Saltwater Area

Current through May 31, 2024
Notwithstanding
				  5 AAC 75.026, in the Cook Inlet-Resurrection Bay
				  Saltwater Area, pink salmon taken in a sport fishery may be used for bait in a
				  sport, personal use, or subsistence fishery.
Authority:
AS
					 16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 58 - Cook Inlet - Resurrection Bay Saltwater Area › 5 AAC 58.026 - Shellfish harvest recording form required

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Before
				harvesting shellfish with pots, a person must obtain a sport fishing shellfish
				harvest recording form, described in
				5 AAC 75.016 and provided by the department. Upon taking
				shellfish with pots, and before concealing the shellfish from plain view or
				removing the shellfish from the fishing site, the person must enter the harvest
				and catch information requested in the form. A person who fails to comply with
				the requirements of this subsection or
				5 AAC 75.016, including any requirement to return
				harvest and catch information to the department, may be ineligible to obtain a
				shellfish harvest recording form during the following season in the fishery for
				which the form was required, unless the permit applicant demonstrates to the
				department that failure to report was due to unavoidable
				circumstances.
(b) Repealed
				7/1/2006.
Authority:
AS
					 16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 58 - Cook Inlet - Resurrection Bay Saltwater Area › 5 AAC 58.030 - Methods, means, and general provisions - Finfish

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Unless
				otherwise specified in
				5 AAC 58.022 or by an emergency order issued under
				AS
				16.05.060, the provisions of this section
				apply to finfish sport fishing in the Cook Inlet - Resurrection Bay Saltwater
				Area.
(b) Unless otherwise
				specified in this section or in 5 AAC 75, fish may only be taken by
				hook-and-line gear.
(c) A person
				may not intentionally snag or attempt to snag any species of fish in the waters
				of Cook Inlet north of the latitude of Bluff Point at 59° 40.00' N. lat. A
				person who snags a fish in these waters shall release the fish immediately.
				Except as specified in (d) of this section, a person may snag or attempt to
				snag any species offish in the waters of Cook Inlet south of the latitude of
				Bluff Point at 59° 40.00' N. lat., from January 1 through December
				31.
(d) From January 1 through
				December 31, except during periods established by emergency order, a person may
				not intentionally snag or attempt to snag any species offish from the Homer
				city dock near the entrance of the Homer Boat Harbor, including the entire
				Homer Boat Harbor, northwest along the east side of Homer Spit to an ADF&G
				regulatory marker located approximately 200 yards northwest of the entrance to
				the fishery enhancement lagoon on Homer Spit, to a distance 300 feet from the
				shore.
(e) From January 1 through
				June 23, a person may not intentionally snag or attempt to snag any species
				offish in the waters of the Seldovia Harbor and Seldovia Lagoon starting at the
				entrance to the Seldovia Harbor, including all waters east and south of the
				breakwater wall and upstream through the Seldovia Slough and including the
				entire Seldovia Lagoon.
(f) From
				January 1 through June 23, spearfishing for king salmon is prohibited in the
				waters of the Seldovia Harbor and Seldovia Lagoon starting at the entrance to
				the Seldovia Harbor, including all waters east and south of the breakwater wall
				and upstream through the Seldovia Slough and including the entire Seldovia
				Lagoon.
(g) The use of a weighted
				hook, weight, or floatation device that follows a hook or hooks is prohibited
				during periods closed to snagging.
(h) For the purposes of this section, "snag"
				means to hook a fish anywhere on its body except for its mouth.
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 58 - Cook Inlet - Resurrection Bay Saltwater Area › 5 AAC 58.035 - Methods, means, and general provisions - Shellfish

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Unless otherwise specified in
				5 AAC 58.022 or by an emergency order issued under
				AS
				16.05.060, the provisions of this section
				apply to shellfish sport fishing in the Cook Inlet - Resurrection Bay Saltwater
				Area.
(b) The bag and possession
				limits for sport-harvested shellfish are not in addition to those allowed under
				the subsistence fishing regulations in 5 AAC 01 and 5 AAC 02 or the personal
				use fishing regulations in 5 AAC 77.
(c) A person may not mutilate or otherwise
				disfigure a crab in any manner that would prevent the determination of the
				minimum size and sex restrictions specified in this chapter. Only whole crab,
				cooked or uncooked, may be taken off a vessel.
(d) Notwithstanding
				5 AAC 75.035(3), no more than two pots
				or two ring nets or a combination of one pot and one ring net per person,
				regardless of type, with a maximum of two pots or two ring nets or a
				combination of one pot and one ring net per vessel, regardless of type, may be
				used to take shellfish at any time, except that in the waters between the
				longitude of Gore Point (150° 57.85' W. long.) and the longitude of Cape
				Fairfield (148° 50.25' W. long.), no more than two pots or two rittu nets
				or a combination of one pot and one ring net per person with a maximum of six
				pots or six ring nets or a combination of pots and ring nets not to exceed a
				total of six units of gear per vessel may be used to take Tanner
				crab.
(e) Each pot, other than
				shrimp pots, used to take shellfish under this chapter must have a minimum of
				two escape rings that are at least four and three-eighths inches in inside
				diameter.
(f) Shrimp pots are pots
				with tunnel eye openings that individually are not larger than 15 inches in
				perimeter.
(g) A pot used to take
				shellfish may not have any portion of the line attaching the pot to a buoy or
				buoys floating on the surface of the water at any time, except for that portion
				of the line connecting the main buoy to any auxiliary buoy or buoys.
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 58 - Cook Inlet - Resurrection Bay Saltwater Area › 5 AAC 58.040 - East Cook Inlet Razor Clam Sport Fishery Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The purpose of
				this plan is to direct the department in the management of the sport razor clam
				fisheries in east Cook Inlet from the mouth of the Kenai River to the
				southernmost tip of the Homer Spit and to establish abundance thresholds for
				adult clams greater than or equal to 80 mm and stock productivity indices for
				the fisheries in the Clam Gulch and Ninilchik Areas.
(b) In the Clam Gulch Area from the mouth of
				the Kenai River south to the latitude of 60° 50.54' N. lat., and in the
				Ninilchik Area from the southernmost tip of the Homer Spit north to the
				latitude of 60° 50.54' N. lat.,
(1) if
				the estimated adult clam abundance is greater than or equal to the average 1989
				- 2012 abundance, the adult clam recruitment replaces or exceeds harvest and
				natural mortality and the size composition index of the harvest is equal to the
				1989 - 2012 average, then the fisheries will be managed as provided in
				5 AAC 58.022(a)(14)(A) and
				5 AAC 77.518(2)(A); the combined harvest
				rate of the sport and personal use fisheries are not expected to exceed 20
				percent of the adult clam abundance;
(2) if the estimated adult clam abundance is
				greater than or equal to 50 percent of the average 1989 - 2012 abundance but
				the population does not meet the criteria outlined in (1) of this subsection,
				then razor clams may be taken from May 1 through September 30 and the bag and
				possession limits are the first 30 clams taken or possessed; the combined
				harvest rate of the sport and personal use fisheries is not expected to exceed
				10 percent of the adult clam abundance.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 58 - Cook Inlet - Resurrection Bay Saltwater Area › 5 AAC 58.055 - Upper Cook Inlet Summer Salt Water King Salmon Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The goal of
				this management plan is to stabilize the sport harvest of early-run king salmon
				in the mixed stock salt water sport fishery in the Upper Cook Inlet Summer Salt
				Water King Salmon Management Area.
(b) The Upper Cook Inlet Summer Salt Water
				King Salmon Management Area consists of all salt waters north of the latitude
				of Bluff Point at 59° 40.00' N. lat.
(c) From April 1 through August 31, within
				the waters described in (b) of this section, a person who is a sport fishing
				guide or sport fishing guide crewmember may not sport fish while a client is
				present or is within the guide's control or responsibility. Notwithstanding the
				provisions of this subsection, a sport fishing guide may provide assistance to
				a client with a disability in order to enable the client to engage in sport
				fishing. For the purposes of this subsection, "disability" has the meaning
				given in  42 U.S.C. 12102(2)(A) and (2)(C), as
				amended as of February 8, 1994.
(d)
				The following waters, within one mile of shore, are closed to sport fishing
				from a vessel and closed to the retention of king salmon when sport fishing
				from shore from April 1 through July 15:
(1)
				in the salt waters approximately one mile north of the Ninilchik River at
				60° 03.99' N. lat. to an ADF&G regulatory marker located two miles
				south of Deep Creek at 60° 00.68' N. lat.;
(2) from the latitude of an ADF&G
				regulatory marker located one mile north of Stariski Creek at 59º 54.37'
				N. lat. to the latitude of an ADF&G regulatory marker located one mile
				south of Stariski Creek at 59º 52.98' N. lat.;
(3) from the latitude of an ADF&G
				regulatory marker located two miles north of the Anchor River at 59° 48.92'
				N. lat. to the latitude of the Anchor Point Light at 59° 46.14' N.
				lat.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 58 - Cook Inlet - Resurrection Bay Saltwater Area › 5 AAC 58.057 - Lower Cook Inlet summer saltwater king salmon sport fishery

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The goal of
				this management plan is to stabilize the sport harvest of king salmon in the
				mixed stock saltwater fishery in lower Cook Inlet from April 1 through August
				31.
(b) The salt waters of lower
				Cook Inlet include all salt water south of the latitude of Bluff Point at 59
				40.00' N. lat., excluding shore-based harvest.
(c) The bag and possession limit is two king
				salmon; no size limit.
(d) The
				annual limit and harvest record specified in
				5 AAC 58.022 applies to king salmon 20 inches or
				greater.
(e) The guideline harvest
				level is 8,500 king salmon
Authority:
AS
					 16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 58 - Cook Inlet - Resurrection Bay Saltwater Area › 5 AAC 58.060 - Cook Inlet Winter Salt Water King Salmon Sport Fishery Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The purpose of
				the management plan under this section is to meet the Board of Fisheries' goal
				of slowing the growth in the sport harvest of king salmon in the salt waters of
				Cook Inlet during the winter, which occurs from September 1 through March
				31.
(b) In the winter salt water
				king salmon sport fishery in Cook Inlet
(1)
				the guideline harvest level is 5,500 king salmon;
(2) the sport harvest will be estimated
				annually by the department's statewide harvest survey;
(3) the bag and possession limit for king
				salmon is two fish;
(4) the annual
				limit and harvest record specified in
				5 AAC 58.022 does not apply;
(5) if the guideline harvest level is
				expected to be exceeded, the commissioner shall restrict retention of king
				salmon to fish 20 inches or greater in length by emergency order.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 58 - Cook Inlet - Resurrection Bay Saltwater Area › 5 AAC 58.065 - North Gulf Coast King Salmon Sport Fishery Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The purpose of
				the management plan under this section is to meet the Board of Fisheries' goal
				of directing the king salmon sport fishing effort on hatchery stocks in
				Resurrection Bay and stabilizing the sport harvest of king salmon in the North
				Gulf Coast.
(b) In the king salmon
				sport fishery,
(1) from January 1 through
				December 31, outside of the Resurrection Bay Terminal Harvest Area, the bag and
				possession limit for king salmon is one fish, with no size limit;
(2) within the Resurrection Bay Terminal
				Harvest Area,
(A) from May 1 through August
				31, the bag and possession limit for king salmon is two fish; with no size
				limit;
(B) from September 1 through
				April 30, the bag and possession limit for king salmon is one fish, with no
				size limit;
(3) in the
				North Gulf Coast, the annual limit and harvest record specified in
				5 AAC 58.022 does not apply.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 58 - Cook Inlet - Resurrection Bay Saltwater Area › 5 AAC 58.095 - Application of regulations

Current through May 31, 2024
The regulations in this chapter also apply in the adjoining
				  waters of the exclusive economic zone.
Authority:
AS
					 16.05.251
AS
					 16.10.190