Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 3 - Game › Chapter 85 - Hunting Seasons and Bag Limits › Article 2 - Seasons and Bag Limits › 5 AAC 85.050 - Hunting seasons and bag limits for musk oxen

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) In this
				  section, the phrase "General hunt only" means that there is a general hunt for
				  residents, but no subsistence hunt, during the relevant open season. Hunting
				  seasons and bag limits for musk oxen are as follows:
Resident

                        Open Season 

                        (Subsistence and    Nonresident

Units and Bag Limits    General Hunts)      Open Season
(1)

  Unit 18, Nunivak

  Island

                                                                              

  1 bull by drawing

  permit              Aug. 1 - Sept. 30    Aug. 1 - Sept. 30

only; up to 110

permits               (General hunt only)   Jan. 15 - Mar. 31

may be issued; or     Jan. 15 - Mar. 31

1 musk ox by          (General hunt only)

registration permit

only

  Unit 18, Nelson

  Island              Feb. 1 - Mar. 31      Feb. 1 - Mar. 31 

                      (General hunt only)

  1 musk ox by

  registration

  permit only

  Remainder of Unit

  18                  No open season.       No open season.

  (2)

  Unit 22(A) and

  Unit 23,            No open season.       No open season.

that portion south

and west of the

Kobuk River

drainage and north

and east of the

Buckland River

drainage

  

		Units 22(B),

  22(C), and 22(D),

  and Unit 23,

  Southwest, that

  portion on the

  Seward Peninsula

  west of and

  including the

  Buckland River

  drainage, as

  follows:

                                                                              

  If the

  harvestable

  portion is 99

  musk oxen or less:

                                                                              

  1 musk ox by Tier

  II                  Aug. 1 - Mar. 15      No open season.

subsistence hunting   (Subsistence hunt

                      only)

permit only

                                                                              

  If the

  harvestable

  portion is

  greater than 99

  musk oxen, but

  less than 151

  musk oxen:

                                                                              

  1 musk ox by        Aug. 1 - Mar. 15      No open season.

registration permit

only                  (Subsistence hunt

                      only)

                                                                              

  If the

  harvestable

  portion is

  greater than 150

  musk oxen:

                                                                              

  1 musk ox by        Aug. 1 - Mar. 15      No open season.

registration permit   (Subsistence hunt

                      only)

only; or

                                                                              

  1 bull 4-year-old

  or older            Aug. 1 - Mar. 15      Aug. 1 - Mar. 15

  by drawing permit

  only; up to 60

  permits may be

  issued; 10

  percent of the

  permits will be

  issued to

  nonresident

  hunters, in

  combination with

  Unit 22(E)

                                                                              

  Unit 22(E)

                                                                              

  If the

  harvestable

  portion is 9 musk

  oxen or less:

                                                                              

  1 musk ox by Tier

  II                  Aug. 1 - Mar. 15      No open season.

subsistence hunting   (Subsistence hunt

                      only)

  permit only

                                                                              

  If the

  harvestable

  portion is

  greater than 9

  musk oxen, but

  less than 26 musk

  oxen:

                                                                              

  1 musk ox by        Aug. 1 - Mar. 15      No open season.

registration permit   (Subsistence hunt

                      only)

  only

                                                                              

  If the

  harvestable

  portion is

  greater than 25

  musk oxen:

                                                                              

  1 musk ox by        Aug. 1 - Mar. 15      No open season.

  registration

  permit              (Subsistence hunt

                      only)

  only; or

                                                                              

  1 bull 4-year-old

  or                  Aug. 1 - Mar. 15      Aug. 1 - Mar. 15

  older by drawing

  permit only; up

  to 60 permits may

  be issued; 10

  percent of the

  permits will be

  issued to

  nonresident

  hunters, in

  combination with

  Units 22(B), (C),

  and (D), and Unit

  23, that portion

  on the Seward

  Peninsula west of

  and including the

  Buckland River

  drainage

  Unit 23, that

  portion north and

  west of the Kobuk

  River drainage

                                                                              

  1 bull by Tier II   Aug. 1 - Mar. 15      No open season.

subsistence hunting

permit                (Subsistence hunt

only; up to 15

bulls may be taken    only)

                                                                              

  Remainder of Unit

  23                  No open season.       No open season.

                                                                              

  (3)

  Unit 26(A), that portion west

  of the Topagoruk River following

  156° W. Long, south to the

  Unit 26(4) border


  1 musk ox by Tier II                Aug. 1 - Mar. 15         No open season.

  subsistence permit only;

  up to 15 permits may be issued



  Units 26(A) that portion

  east of the Topagoruk River

  following 156° W. Long, south

  to the Unit 26(A) border,

  and 26(B), that

  portion west of

  the Dalton Highway

                                                                               

  1 musk ox by Tier

  II  subsistence           Aug. 1 - Mar. 31        No open season.

  permit only; 										(Subsistence hunt only)

  up to 20 musk oxen 

		may be taken           

                      

  Unit 26(B), that

  portion east of

  the Dalton Highway

                                                                              

  1 musk ox by Tier

  I                   Season to be          No open season.

permit only           announced

                      (Subsistence hunt

                      only)

                                                                              

  or

  1 bull by drawing

  permit              Sept. 20 - Oct. 10    No open season.

only if the

harvestable           Mar. 10 - Mar. 30

surplus is greater

than

4 musk oxen; up to

5 musk oxen may be

taken.

  Unit 26(C)          Fall season to be     No open season.

                      announced.

                      (Subsistence hunt

                      only)

                      Mar. 1 - Mar. 31

                      (Subsistence hunt

                      only)

  1 bull by Tier II

  subsistence

  hunting permit

  only; up to 15

  bulls may be taken
(b) Repealed
				  6/16/91.
Authority:
AS
						16.05.255
AS
						16.05.258
AS
						16.05.346