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Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 07 - Kuskokwim Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 07.370 - Registration and reregistration requirements for District 1 of the Kuskokwim Area

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) A CFEC salmon limited entry or
				  interim-use permit holder shall register to fish in a subdistrict described in
				  5 AAC 07.200(a) (1) or (2) by
				  indicating on the ADF&G fish ticket used for the first delivery of the
				  season the subdistrict in which the permit holder first took salmon.
(b) After initial registration under (a) of
				  this section for Subdistrict 1-A or 1-B, a CFEC permit holder may register to
				  fish for salmon in another subdistrict, however, the permit holder may not take
				  salmon in any subdistrict during the 48-hour period following reregistration.
				  Subdistrict reregistration is accomplished when the permit holder contacts a
				  local representative of the department and furnishes the information requested
				  by the representative. The reregistration and the 48-hour waiting period begins
				  at the time that notification is received by the department. A permit holder
				  may reregister only once before or on July 31 and only once after July
				  31.
(c) To maximize the harvest of
				  salmon stocks, when processor capacity is also maximized the commissioner may,
				  by emergency order, close and immediately reopen a fishing period during which
				  (b) of this section does not apply.
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Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 07 - Kuskokwim Area › Article 4 - Bottomfish Fishery (Repealed)

Current through May 31, 2024
Publisher's note:
5 AAC 07.410 was repealed as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 07 - Kuskokwim Area › Article 6 - Freshwater Fishery › 5 AAC 07.650 - Closed waters

Current through May 31, 2024
Whitefish Lake, southwest of Aniak in the Ophir Creek
					 drainage, is closed to commercial fishing.
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 09 - Alaska Peninsula Area › Article 1 - Description of Area › 5 AAC 09.001 - Application of this chapter

Current through May 31, 2024
Requirements set out in this chapter apply only to
					 commercial fishing, 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 65 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 09 - Alaska Peninsula Area › Article 1 - Description of Area › 5 AAC 09.100 - Description of area

Current through May 31, 2024
The Alaska Peninsula Area includes the waters of Alaska on
					 the north side of the Alaska Peninsula, southwest of a line from Cape Menshikof
					 (57º 28.34' N. lat., 157º 55.84' W. long.) to Cape Newenham (58º
					 39.00' N. lat., 162º W. long.) and east of the longitude of Cape Sarichef
					 Light (164º 55.70' W. long.) and on the south side of the Alaska
					 Peninsula, from a line extending from Scotch Cap through the easternmost tip of
					 Ugamak Island to a line extending 135º southeast from Kupreanof Point
					 (55º 33.98' N. lat., 159º 35.88' W. long.).
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Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 09 - Alaska Peninsula Area › Article 2 - Fishing Districts and Sections › 5 AAC 09.200 - Description of districts and sections

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Northern
				  District: waters on the north (Bering Sea) side of the Alaska Peninsula west of
				  a line from Cape Menshikof (57° 28.34' N. lat., 157° 55.84' W. long.)
				  to Cape Newenham (58° 39.00' N. lat., 162° W. long.) and the longitude
				  of Moffet Point (162° 35.50' W. long.), excluding the waters of Moffet Bay
				  (also known as Moffet Lagoon);
(1) Cinder
				  River Section: waters of the Northern District east of 158° 20.00' W.
				  long.;
(2) Port Heiden Sections:
(A) Outer Port Heiden Section: waters located
				  between 158° 20.00' W. long. and the longitude of Strogonof Point (158°
				  50.45' W. long.), excluding the waters of the Inner Port Heiden
				  Section;
(B) Inner Port Heiden
				  Section: waters of Port Heiden Bay south and east of a line from Strogonof
				  Point at 56° 53.50' N. lat., 158° 50.45' W. long. to the mainland shore
				  of the northeast entrance to the bay at 56° 56.50' N. lat., 158° 41.50'
				  W. long.;
(3) Ilnik
				  Section: waters between the longitude of Strogonof Point (158° 50.45' W.
				  long.) and the longitude of Three Hills (159° 49.45' W. long.);
(4) Three Hills Section: waters between the
				  longitude of Three Hills (159° 49.45' W. long.) and the longitude of Cape
				  Seniavin (160° 08.25' W. long.);
(5) Bear River Section: waters between the
				  longitude of Cape Seniavin (160° 08.25' W. long.) and the longitude of Wolf
				  Point (160° 48.47' W. long.), excluding the waters of the Herendeen-Moller
				  Bay Section;
(6) Port Moller Bight
				  Section: waters enclosed by a line from Entrance Point to Harbor
				  Point;
(7) Herendeen-Moller Bay
				  Section: waters enclosed by a line from Harbor Point to Entrance Point to Wolf
				  Point to Point Edward on Cape Rozhnof;
(8) Nelson Lagoon Section: waters of Nelson
				  Lagoon inside the bars and inside a line extending from Lagoon Point to Wolf
				  Point to Point Edward on Cape Rozhnof;
(9) Caribou Flats Section: waters between the
				  longitude of Wolf Point (160° 48.47' W. long.) and the longitude of Frank's
				  Point (161° 49.00' W. long.), excluding the waters of the Nelson Lagoon
				  Section;
(10) Black Hills Section:
				  waters between the longitude of Frank's Point (161° 49.00' W. long.) and
				  the longitude of Moffet Point (162° 35.50' W. long.), excluding the waters
				  of Moffet Bay (also known as Moffet Lagoon).
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 09 - Alaska Peninsula Area › Article 2 - Fishing Districts and Sections › 5 AAC 09.206 - Use of global positioning system (GPS)

Current through May 31, 2024
In the Alaska Peninsula 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 09 - Alaska Peninsula Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 09.301 - Seaward boundary of districts

Current through May 31, 2024
For the purpose of managing the historical salmon net
					 fishery in the vicinity of False Pass and Unimak Bight, the outer boundary of
					 the Southwestern and Unimak Districts is a line drawn three miles seaward from
					 a line commencing at 54° 26.70' N. lat., 162° 53.00' W. long., near the
					 western end of Sanak Island to Cape Lutke on Unimak Island. The seaward
					 boundary of all other districts is a line three miles seaward of the baseline,
					 as described in the definition of "waters of Alaska" in
					 5 AAC 39.975.
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Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 09 - Alaska Peninsula Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 09.310 - Fishing seasons

Current through May 31, 2024
(a)In the Northern District, salmon may be
				  taken as follows:
(1) Cinder River Section:
(A) from May 1 through September 30, waters
				  within the lagoon into which Cinder River drains (locally known as False U
				  gashik or Shagong) that are inside a line across the lagoon entrance from
				  57° 21.14' N. lat., 158° 06.82' W. long. to 57° 21.46' N. lat.,
				  158° 04.68' W. long.;
(B) from
				  August 1 through September 30 throughout this section;
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 09 - Alaska Peninsula Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 09.320 - Fishing periods

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) In the Northern District, salmon may be
				  taken only during weekly fishing periods from 6:00 a.m. Monday until 6:00 p.m.
				  Thursday, unless modified by emergency order, except as follows:
(1) in the Black Hills Section,
(A) before July 1, salmon may be taken from
				  6:00 a.m. Monday until 6:00 p.m. Wednesday;
(B) beginning July 1, salmon may be taken
				  from 6:00 a.m. Monday until 6:00 p.m. Thursday;
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 09 - Alaska Peninsula Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 09.330 - Gear

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) In the Northern District, salmon may be
				  taken in the
(1) Cinder River Section: with
				  drift gillnets or set gillnets only;
(2) Inner Port Heiden Section: with drift
				  gillnets or set gillnets only;
(3)
				  Ilnik Section: with drift gillnets or set gillnets only;
(4) Three Hills Section: with drift gillnets
				  only;
(5) Bear River Section: with
				  drift gillnets, purse seines, and hand purse seines;
(6) Port Moller Bight Section: with drift
				  gillnets, set gillnets, purse seines, and hand purse seines;
(7) Herendeen-Moller Bay Section: with drift
				  gillnets, set gillnets, purse seines, and hand purse seines;
(8) Nelson Lagoon Section: with drift
				  gillnets or set gillnets;
(9) Black
				  Hills Section: with drift gillnets or set gillnets only;
(10) Outer Port Heiden Section: with drift
				  gillnets only.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 09 - Alaska Peninsula Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 09.331 - Gillnet specifications and operations

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The size and
				  operation of drift gillnets is as follows:
(1) the aggregate length of drift gillnets on
				  a salmon fishing boat or in use by such boat shall be no more than 200 fathoms
				  in length;
(2) repealed
				  6/5/2016;
(3) in the Northwestern,
				  Unimak, and Southwestern Districts, no drift gillnet may exceed 90 meshes in
				  depth;
(4) in the Northern
				  District, a drift gillnet may not exceed 70 meshes in depth, except that in the
				  Nelson Lagoon Section a drift gillnet may not exceed 29 meshes in depth before
				  August 16 and 38 meshes in depth from August 16 through September 30; a drift
				  gillnet may have only one leadline, which may not exceed 60 fathoms per 50
				  fathoms of corkline, and no portion of the leadline may exceed 1.5 pounds per
				  fathom.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 09 - Alaska Peninsula Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 09.332 - Seine specifications and operations

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Purse seines or
				  hand purse seines may not be less than 100 fathoms nor more than 250 fathoms in
				  length. A purse seine or hand purse seine may not exceed 375 meshes in depth.
				  Seine mesh may not be more than three and one-half inches, except that the
				  first 25 meshes above the leadline may not be more than seven inches.
(b) Leads may not be less than 50 fathoms nor
				  more than 150 fathoms in length. Only one lead may be used with a seine. A lead
				  may be attached to only one end of a seine, and the lead may not be attached to
				  the boat end of the seine.
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 09 - Alaska Peninsula Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 09.334 - Identification of gear

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Each drift gillnet in operation must have
				  at each end a bright 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, as well as the initials of the operator.
(b) Each set gillnet in operation must be
				  identified as required by
				  5 AAC 39.280.
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Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 09 - Alaska Peninsula Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 09.335 - Minimum distance between units of gear

Current through May 31, 2024
No part of a commercial set gillnet may be set or operated
					 within 900 feet of any part of another commercial set gillnet, except that in
					 the
(1) Inner Port Heiden Section no
				  part of a set gillnet may be set or operated within 600 feet of any part of
				  another set gillnet;
(2) Nelson
				  Lagoon Section no part of a set gillnet may be set or operated within 1,800
				  feet of any part of another operating set gillnet.
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 09 - Alaska Peninsula Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 09.350 - Closed waters

Current through May 31, 2024
Salmon may not be taken in the following locations:
(1) Cape Menshikof: waters of the Cinder
				  River Section located north and east of a line extending 304º from a point
				  on the shore at 57º 24.40' N. lat., 158º 03.00' W. long.;
(2) Cinder River Lagoon: waters enclosed by a
				  line from 57º 20.00' N. lat., 158º 08.02' W. long. to 57º 21.30'
				  N. lat., 158º 02.63' W. long.;
(3) Outer Port Heiden: waters of the Outer
				  Port Heiden Section
(A) repealed
				  6/5/2016;
(B) east of a line from
				  57° 05.52' N. lat., 158° 34.45' W. long. to 57° 08.85' N. lat.,
				  158° 37.50' W. long.;
(C) that
				  are within 1,000 yards of the terminus of Reindeer Creek, from June 20 through
				  July 31;
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 09 - Alaska Peninsula Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 09.355 - Salmon processor and buyer reporting requirements

Current through May 31, 2024
The operator of a floating salmon processing vessel or
					 tender, or of a shorebased processing operation, and a company employing
					 aircraft used for transporting salmon, shall report in person, or by radio or
					 telephone, to a local representative of the department located in the
					 management area of intended operation before the start of processing or buying
					 operations. The report must include the location and the date of intended
					 operation, and identify and describe each vessel or other method of transport
					 employed in hauling or processing salmon.
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Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 09 - Alaska Peninsula Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 09.360 - Southeastern District Mainland Salmon Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The purpose of
				  this management plan is to provide guidelines to the department for the
				  management of the interception of Chignik River sockeye salmon caught in the
				  Southeastern District Mainland fishery conducted in the East Stepovak, Stepovak
				  Flats, Northwest Stepovak, Southwest Stepovak, Balboa Bay, and Beaver Bay
				  Sections. Except as specified in
				  5 AAC 09.330(f) (3), before July 11,
				  only set gillnet gear may be used in these sections. For the purpose of the
				  management plan in this section, local runs include only those salmon in the
				  waters
(1) beginning July 1, in the Northwest
				  Stepovak Section described in
				  5 AAC 09.200(f);
(2) in the Stepovak Flats Section described
				  in 5 AAC 09.200(f).
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 09 - Alaska Peninsula Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 09.365 - South Unimak and Shumagin Islands June Salmon Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The South
				  Unimak and Shumagin Islands June fisheries harvest both sockeye salmon and chum
				  salmon in a mixed stock fishery during the month of June. The sockeye salmon
				  are predominantly Bristol Bay and Alaska Peninsula origin. The chum salmon are
				  bound for a number of areas, including Japan, Russia, the
				  Arctic-Yukon-Kuskokwim, Bristol Bay, the Alaska Peninsula, and southcentral
				  Alaska. These salmon stocks have historically been harvested along the south
				  Alaska Peninsula during the month of June. This management plan is intended to
				  be consistent with the Policy for the Management of Sustainable Salmon
				  Fisheries (5 AAC 39.222) and the Policy for
				  the Management of Mixed Stock Salmon Fisheries (5 AAC 39.220).
(b) The South Unimak fishery takes place in
				  the Unimak District, the Southwestern District, the East Pavlof Bay and the
				  West Pavlof Bay Sections of the South Central District, and the Bechevin Bay
				  Section of the Northwestern District.
(c) The Shumagin Islands fishery takes place
				  in the Shumagin Islands Section.
(d) In the South Unimak and Shumagin Islands
				  fisheries, the commissioner may establish, by emergency order, commercial
				  fishing periods as follows:
(1) for set
				  gillnet gear,
(A) beginning June 6,
				  commercial fishing periods will begin at 6:00 a.m. and run 64 hours until 10:00
				  p.m. two days later; beginning June 10, commercial fishing periods will begin
				  at 6:00 a.m. and run 88 hours until 10:00 p.m. three days later; commercial
				  fishing will then close for 32 hours and reopen at 6:00 a.m. two days
				  later;
(B) notwithstanding (A) of
				  this paragraph, the final commercial fishing period will end at 10:00 p.m. on
				  June 28;
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 09 - Alaska Peninsula Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 09.366 - Post-June Salmon Management Plan for the South Alaska Peninsula

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The purpose of
				  this management plan is to provide management guidelines to the department for
				  the management of the post-June salmon fisheries along the South Alaska
				  Peninsula, to provide for the harvest of local stocks in terminal harvest
				  areas, and to establish fishing periods for the South Alaska Peninsula salmon
				  fisheries outside of terminal harvest areas.
(b) The commissioner shall establish, to the
				  extent practicable, concurrent fishing periods in the Southeastern, South
				  Central, Southwestern, and Unimak Districts.
(c) Fishing periods may be established under
				  this section only as follows:
(1) except as
				  specified in (d), for July, from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.;
(2) for August, from 8:00 a.m. to 9:00
				  p.m.;
(3) for September and
				  October, from 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.;
(4) repealed 1/15/2003.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 09 - Alaska Peninsula Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 09.369 - Northern District Salmon Fisheries Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The purpose of
				  this management plan is to provide guidelines to the department for the
				  management of salmon stocks in the Northern District of the Alaska Peninsula
				  Management Area.
(b) The department
				  shall manage the Northern District salmon fisheries on the basis of salmon
				  abundance as determined by escapement information and catch-per-unit-effort
				  information. The department shall manage each section of the Northern District
				  as specified in this management plan and
				  5 AAC 09.320.
(c) In the Black Hills Section,
(1) before July 1, fishing periods may be
				  modified based on the abundance of king and sockeye salmon stocks;
(2) from July 1 through August 15, fishing
				  periods may be modified based on the abundance of sockeye and chum salmon
				  stocks; and
(3) after August 15,
				  fishing periods may be modified based on the abundance of coho salmon
				  stocks.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 09 - Alaska Peninsula Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 09.378 - Prohibitions on use of aircraft

Current through May 31, 2024
A person may not use or employ an aircraft to locate salmon
					 for the commercial taking of salmon or to direct commercial fishing operations
					 in the Alaska Peninsula Area one hour before, during, and one hour after a
					 commercial salmon fishing period.
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 09 - Alaska Peninsula Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 09.392 - Net pens and other holding devices in the Alaska Peninsula Area (Repealed)

Current through May 31, 2024
In Register 206, July 2013, the provisions of
						5 AAC 09.392 were repealed because the substance of that
						section appears in the provisions of
						5 AAC 39.112, which applies on a statewide
						basis.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 11 - Atka-Amlia Islands Area › Article 1 - Description of Area › 5 AAC 11.002 - Application of this chapter

Current through May 31, 2024
Requirements set out in this chapter apply only to
					 commercial fishing, 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 65 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 11 - Atka-Amlia Islands Area › Article 1 - Description of Area › 5 AAC 11.101 - Description of area

Current through May 31, 2024
The Atka-Amlia Islands Area includes the waters of Alaska
					 between Seguam Pass (172º 50.00' W. long.) and Atka Pass (175º 23.00'
					 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 11 - Atka-Amlia Islands Area › Article 1 - Description of Area › 5 AAC 11.106 - Use of global positioning system (GPS)

Current through May 31, 2024
In the Atka-Amlia Islands 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.
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 11 - Atka-Amlia Islands Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 11.311 - Fishing seasons

Current through May 31, 2024
Salmon may be taken only from August 1 through August
					 31.
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 11 - Atka-Amlia Islands Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 11.321 - Weekly fishing periods

Current through May 31, 2024
Salmon may be taken only from 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
					 Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.
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 11 - Atka-Amlia Islands Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 11.333 - Gear

Current through May 31, 2024
Salmon may be taken only by purse seines and set gillnets.
					 A purse seine may be operated only by the holder of an Area M CFEC purse seine
					 limited entry permit.
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 11 - Atka-Amlia Islands Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 11.334 - Gillnet specifications and operations

Current through May 31, 2024
The size and operation of a set gillnet are as
					 follows:
(1) a set gillnet may not
				  exceed 100 fathoms in length; a CFEC permit holder may not operate more than
				  one set gillnet;
(2) a set gillnet
				  must be operated in a substantially straight line, with no more than 25 fathoms
				  of the offshore end set in any configuration;
(3) the mesh size of a set gillnet may not
				  exceed five inches;
(4) the maximum
				  depth of a set gillnet may not exceed 90 meshes;
(5) 25 fathoms of seine webbing may be used
				  as a lead, and must be attached to the shoreward end of a set gillnet; the
				  shoreward end of the lead or gillnet must be attached to the beach above high
				  tide and must remain dry at all times;
(6) during hours of darkness, a set gillnet
				  must be marked with at least one red light on the seaward end of the
				  net.
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 11 - Atka-Amlia Islands Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 11.335 - Seine specifications and operations

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) A purse seine
				  must be at least 100 fathoms long, but may not exceed 250 fathoms in
				  length.
(b) A seine lead must be at
				  least 25 fathoms long, but may not exceed 150 fathoms in length.
Authority:
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						16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 11 - Atka-Amlia Islands Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 11.342 - Vessel length

Current through May 31, 2024
A vessel used for setnet fishing may not exceed 29 feet in
					 overall length.
Authority:
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						16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 11 - Atka-Amlia Islands Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 11.351 - Closed waters

Current through May 31, 2024
The waters specified in
					 5 AAC 39.290 are closed to salmon
					 fishing.
Authority:
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						16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 11 - Atka-Amlia Islands Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 11.371 - Registration

Current through May 31, 2024
An Atka-Amlia Islands Area seine and setnet permit holder
					 shall register himself or herself and each vessel that the permit holder will
					 use by contacting a department area management biologist in Dutch Harbor, Cold
					 Bay, Sand Point, or other place specified by the department, at least 48 hours
					 before the season opens or before beginning commercial
					 fishing.
Authority:
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						16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 11 - Atka-Amlia Islands Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 11.392 - Net pens and other holding devices in the Atka-Amlia Islands Area (Repealed)

Current through May 31, 2024
In Register 206, July 2013, the provisions of
						5 AAC 11.392 were repealed because the substance of that
						section appears in the provisions of
						5 AAC 39.112, which applies on a statewide
						basis.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 12 - Aleutian Islands Area › Article 1 - Description of Area › 5 AAC 12.001 - Application of this chapter

Current through May 31, 2024
Requirements set out in this chapter apply only to
					 commercial fishing, 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 65 and 5 AAC 75.
Authority:
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						16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 12 - Aleutian Islands Area › Article 1 - Description of Area › 5 AAC 12.100 - Description of area

Current through May 31, 2024
The Aleutian Islands Area includes the waters of Alaska in
					 the Aleutian Islands west of Cape Sarichef Light and west of a line extending
					 from Scotch Cap through the easternmost tip of Ugamak Island, including the
					 waters surrounding the Pribilof Islands, except the Atka-Amlia Islands Area
					 described in
					 5 AAC 11.101.
Authority:
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						16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 12 - Aleutian Islands Area › Article 2 - Fishing Districts and Sections › 5 AAC 12.200 - Description of districts and sections

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Akutan
				  District: all waters between Scotch Cap and Cape Sarichef Light and extending
				  west to and including Akutan Pass. South of Scotch Cap, the eastern boundary of
				  the district is a line extending from Scotch Cap through the easternmost tip of
				  Ugamak Island.
(b) Unalaska
				  District: all waters west of Akutan Pass to and including Umnak Pass
(1) Beaver Inlet Section: all waters between
				  Cape Sedanka and Cape Kalekta and including Unalga Island;
(2) Unalaska Bay Section: all waters between
				  Cape Kalekta and Cape Kovrizhka;
(3) Makushin Bay Section: all waters between
				  Cape Kovrizhka and Spray Cape;
(4)
				  Kashega Bay Section: all waters between Spray Cape and Konets Head;
(5) Southern Section: all waters between
				  Konets Head and Cape Sedanka.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 12 - Aleutian Islands Area › Article 2 - Fishing Districts and Sections › 5 AAC 12.206 - Use of global positioning system (GPS)

Current through May 31, 2024
In the Aleutian Islands 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.
Authority:
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						16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 12 - Aleutian Islands Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 12.310 - Fishing seasons

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Salmon may be taken only from July 10
				  through September 30, except that in the Kashega Bay Section, salmon may be
				  taken only from June 1 through September 30.
(b) There is no open commercial fishing
				  season for salmon in the Pribilof Islands District.
Authority:
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						16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 12 - Aleutian Islands Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 12.320 - Weekly fishing periods

Current through May 31, 2024
Salmon may be taken
(1) June 1 through July 18: from 6:00 a.m.
				  Monday until 6:00 p.m. Friday;
(2)
				  from July 19 through September 30 salmon may be taken during the open season
				  only during fishing periods established by emergency order.
Authority:
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						16.05.060
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						16.05.251(a)
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 12 - Aleutian Islands Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 12.330 - Gear

Current through May 31, 2024
Salmon may be taken by purse seines, hand purse seines, and
					 beach seines.
Authority:
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						16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 12 - Aleutian Islands Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 12.332 - Seine specifications and operation

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Purse seines
				  and hand purse seines may not be less than 100 fathoms nor more than 250
				  fathoms in length.
(b) Beach seines
				  may not be less than 100 fathoms in length and three fathoms in depth nor more
				  than 250 fathoms in length and 12 fathoms in depth.
(c) No lead may be less than 25 fathoms nor
				  more than 150 fathoms in length.
Authority:
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						16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 12 - Aleutian Islands Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 12.350 - Closed waters

Current through May 31, 2024
The following waters are closed to commercial salmon
					 fishing:
(1) Iliuliuk Harbor vicinity:
				  waters between Unalaska and Amaknak Islands west of 166º 32.00' W. long.
				  and north of a line from 53º 52.28' N. lat., 166º 32.68' W. long.
				  south of Agnes Beach to a point at 53º 52.28' N. lat., 166º 33.17' W.
				  long. on Amaknak Island;
(2)
				  Humpback Bay: waters enclosed by a line from the western tip of Cathedral Point
				  to 53º 45.23' N. lat., 166º 53.63' W. long.;
(3) the Pribilof Islands District.
Authority:
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						16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 12 - Aleutian Islands Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 12.355 - Salmon processor and buyer reporting requirements

Current through May 31, 2024
The operator of a floating salmon processing vessel or
					 tender, or a shorebased processing operation, and a company employing aircraft
					 used for transporting salmon, shall report in person, or by radio or telephone,
					 to a local representative of the department located in the management area of
					 intended operation before the start of processing or buying operations. The
					 report must include the location and the date of intended operation, and
					 identify and describe each vessel or other method of transport employed in
					 hauling or processing salmon.
Authority:
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						16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 12 - Aleutian Islands Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 12.370 - Registration

Current through May 31, 2024
In the Aleutian Islands Area, at least 48 hours before
					 fishing, a commercial salmon permit holder for purse seine gear must register
					 with the department the permit and the vessel that will be used in the
					 commercial salmon fishery by contacting, by telephone, the local representative
					 of the department at one of the following department offices and supplying all
					 requested information:
(1) department
				  office in Dutch Harbor;
(2)
				  department office in Cold Bay;
(3)
				  department office in Sand Point;
(4) repealed 7/1/2007.
For the purposes of registration under
						5 AAC 12.370, the telephone numbers for the designated
						department offices are Dutch Harbor (907) 581-1219; Cold Bay (907) 532-2419;
						and Sand Point (907) 383-2066.
Authority:
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						16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 12 - Aleutian Islands Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 12.392 - Net pens and other holding devices in the Aleutian Islands Area (Repealed)

Current through May 31, 2024
In Register 206, July 2013, the provisions of
						5 AAC 12.392 were repealed since the substance of that
						section appears in the provisions of
						5 AAC 39.112, which applies on a statewide
						basis.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 15 - Chignik Area › Article 1 - Description of Area › 5 AAC 15.001 - 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 65 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 15 - Chignik Area › Article 1 - Description of Area › 5 AAC 15.100 - Description of area

Current through May 31, 2024
The Chignik Area includes all waters of Alaska on the south
					 side of the Alaska Peninsula bounded by a line extending 135º southeast
					 for three miles from a point near Kilokak Rocks at 57º 10.34' N. lat.,
					 156º 20.22' W. long., (the longitude of the southern entrance to Imuya
					 Bay) then due south, and a line extending 135º southeast from Kupreanof
					 Point at 55º 33.98' N. lat., 159º 35.88' W. long.
Authority:
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						16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 15 - Chignik Area › Article 2 - Fishing Districts, Sections, and Subsections › 5 AAC 15.200 - Fishing districts, sections, and subsections

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The Eastern
				  District includes all waters from the latitude of the southernmost ADF&G
				  regulatory marker 500 yards from the mouth of Aniakchak Lagoon to the eastern
				  boundary of the Chignik Area.
(1) Agripina
				  Section: all waters bounded by the eastern boundary of the Chignik Area
				  described in
				  5 AAC 15.100 and a line extending 130º from Cape
				  Providence at 56º 58.67' N. lat., 156º 33.47' W. long.;
(2) Chiginagak Section: all waters bounded by
				  a line extending 130º from Cape Providence at 56º 58.67' N. lat.,
				  156º 33.47' W. long., and a line extending 150º from Cape Kuyuyukak
				  at 56º 53.85' N. lat., 156º 49.72' W. long.;
(3) Nakalilok-Yantarni Section: all waters
				  bounded by a line extending 150º from Cape Kuyuyukak at 56º 53.85' N.
				  lat., 156º 49.72' W. long., the longitude of Cape Kunmik at 56º
				  45.88' N. lat., 157º 12.05' W. long., and the southern boundary of the
				  Eastern District;
(4) Big River
				  Section: all waters of Amber and Aniakchak Bays bounded by 157º 12.05' W.
				  long., and the latitude of the southernmost ADF&G regulatory marker 500
				  yards from the mouth of Aniakchak Lagoon.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 15 - Chignik Area › Article 2 - Fishing Districts, Sections, and Subsections › 5 AAC 15.206 - Use of global positioning systems (GPS)

Current through May 31, 2024
In the Chignik 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.
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 15 - Chignik Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 15.310 - Fishing seasons

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) In the Chignik Bay District, salmon may
				  be taken only from June 1 through October 31.
(b) The Perryville, Western, Central and
				  Eastern Districts are opened by emergency order.
Authority:
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						16.05.060
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						16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 15 - Chignik Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 15.320 - Weekly fishing periods

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Salmon fishing periods shall be
				  established by emergency order.
(b)
				  Repealed 3/13/75.
Authority:
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						16.05.060
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						16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 15 - Chignik Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 15.330 - Gear

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Salmon may be taken only by purse seine
				  and hand purse seine.
(b) Repealed
				  4/24/80.
Authority:
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						16.05.251(a)
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 15 - Chignik Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 15.332 - Seine specifications and operations

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) In the Eastern,
				  Central, Western and Perryville Districts, a purse seine may not be less than
				  100 fathoms or more than 225 fathoms in length.
(b) In the Eastern, Central, Western and
				  Perryville Districts, a hand purse seine may not be less than 100 fathoms or
				  more than 225 fathoms in length.
(c) In the Chignik Bay District, purse seines
				  and hand purse seines may not be less than 100 fathoms or more than 125 fathoms
				  in length.
(d) A seine may not be
				  less than three fathoms or more than 375 meshes in depth, In addition, a
				  maximum of 25 meshes of chafing gear with a maximum mesh size of seven inches
				  may be used.
(e) A lead may not be
				  more than 75 fathoms in length. In the Eastern, Central, Western, and
				  Perryville Districts, the aggregate length of seine and lead may not be more
				  than 225 fathoms in length.
(f)
				  When a purse seine or hand purse seine is in the water for the purpose of
				  taking fish, the seine shall be attached to the licensed vessel operating the
				  gear.
(g) A purse seine is
				  considered to have ceased fishing as specified in 5 AAC 39.260(c).
Authority:
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						16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 15 - Chignik Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 15.350 - Closed waters

Current through May 31, 2024
Salmon may not be taken in the following waters:
(1) Chignik Lagoon:
(A) Mallard Duck and Schooner Bays: south of
				  a line from the tip of Green Point at 56° 16.75' N. lat., 158° 33.90'
				  W. long. to Chignik Island at 56° 16.63' N. lat., 158° 34.90' W. long.,
				  and south of a line from 56° 16.53' N. lat., 158° 37.87' W. long. to
				  Chignik Island at 56° 16.35' N. lat., 158° 35.97' W. long.;
(B) Humes Point: south of a line from the tip
				  of Humes Point at 56° 17.67' N. lat., 158° 36.89' W. long. to Chignik
				  Island at 56° 17.42' N. lat., 158° 35.50' W. long.;
(C) Mensis Point: southwest of a line from
				  the tip of Mensis Point at 56° 16.90' N. lat., 158° 38.51' W. long. to
				  a point on the south bank of the Chignik River at 56° 16.56' N. lat.,
				  158° 38.40' W. long.;
(D)
				  Pillar Rock: southwest of a line from the north bank of the Chignik River at
				  56° 16.74' N. lat., 158° 39.01' W. long. to a point on the south bank
				  of the Chignik River at 56° 16.57' N. lat., 158° 38.84' W.
				  long.;
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 15 - Chignik Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 15.355 - Reporting requirements

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The operator of a floating salmon
				  processing vessel or tender, or a shorebased processing operation, and a
				  company employing aircraft used for transporting salmon, shall report in
				  person, or by radio or telephone, to a local representative of the department
				  located in the management area of intended operation before the start of
				  processing or buying operations. The report must include the location and the
				  date of intended operation, and identify and describe each vessel or other
				  method of transport employed in hauling or processing salmon.
(b) A commercial fisherman shall report, on
				  an ADF&G fish ticket at the time of landing, the number of salmon taken but
				  not sold.
Authority:
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						16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 15 - Chignik Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 15.357 - Chignik Area Salmon Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) he department
				  shall manage the commercial salmon fishery in the Chignik Area in accordance
				  with the guidelines set out in the management plan under this section. The
				  goals of this management plan are to allow traditional fisheries in the area to
				  be conducted on Chignik Area salmon stocks and to achieve the escapement goals
				  for sockeye salmon and local stocks of pink, chum, coho, and king salmon. The
				  department shall manage the Chignik area sockeye salmon fishery to achieve
(1) an optimal escapement goal for Black Lake
				  (early run) sockeye salmon of 300.000 to 400.000 fish:
(2) an optimal escapement goal for Chignik
				  Lake (late run) sockeye salmon of 240,000 to 360.000 fish.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 15 - Chignik Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 15.358 - Chignik Area Cooperative Purse Seine Salmon Fishery Management Plan (Expired)

Current through May 31, 2024
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 15 - Chignik Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 15.359 - Chignik Area Cooperative Purse Seine Salmon Fishery Management Plan (Repealed)

Current through May 31, 2024
Effective April 25, 2005,
						5 AAC 15.359 was ruled invalid by the Alaska Supreme
						Court in Grunert v. State of Alaska, 109 P.3d 924 (Alaska
						2005).