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Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 32 - Dungeness Crab Fishery › Article 9 - Registration Area J (Westward) › 5 AAC 32.400 - Description of Registration Area J

Current through May 31, 2024
Registration Area J consists of the Pacific Ocean waters
					 that are south of the latitude of Cape Douglas at 58º 51.10' N. lat. and
					 west of 149º W. long., and the Bering Sea and Pacific Ocean waters that
					 are east of the Maritime Boundary Agreement Line as that line is described in
					 the text of and depicted in the annex to the Maritime Boundary Agreement
					 between the United States and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics signed in
					 Washington, June 1, 1990, and as that Maritime Boundary Agreement Line is
					 depicted on
NOAA Chart #513
(7th Edition, June 2004) and
NOAA Chart #514
(7th Edition, January 2004). These charts are
					 adopted by reference.
Copies of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
						Administration (NOAA) charts adopted by reference in
						5 AAC 32.400 can be viewed, downloaded, and purchased at
						NOAA's website at
http://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/staff/chartspubs.htm
.
						In addition, the charts are available for inspection at the Lieutenant
						Governor's Office, Juneau, Alaska.
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 32 - Dungeness Crab Fishery › Article 9 - Registration Area J (Westward) › 5 AAC 32.405 - Description of Registration Area J districts

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Kodiak
				  District: waters of Registration Area J that are south of the latitude of Cape
				  Douglas at 58º 51.10' N. lat., west of 149º W. long., and east of a
				  line extending south from the Alaska Peninsula (near Kilokak Rocks) along
				  156º 20.22' W. long.
(b)
				  Chignik District: waters of Registration Area J that are west of a line
				  extending south from the Alaska Peninsula (near Kilokak Rocks) along 156º
				  20.22' W. long., and east of a line extending 135º southeast from
				  Kupreanof Point at 55º 33.98' N. lat., 159º 35.88' W. long to a point
				  offshore at 53° 40.46' N., 156° 20.22' W. long..
(c) Alaska Peninsula District: waters of
				  Registration Area J that are west of a line extending from Kupreanof Point at
				  55º 33.98' N. lat, 159º 35.88' W. long., to a point offshore at
				  53° 40.46' N" 156° 20.22' W. long. and east of the longitude of Scotch
				  Cap Light at 164º 44.72' W. long. and south of 54º 51.30' N. lat. in
				  Isanotski Strait.
(d) North
				  Peninsula District: Bering Sea waters of Registration Area J that are north of
				  the latitude of Cape Sarichef Light at 54º 35.89' N. lat. and north of
				  54º 51.30' N. lat. in Isanotski Strait.
(e) Aleutian District: waters of Registration
				  Area J that are west of the longitude of Scotch Cap Light at 164º 44.72'
				  W. long. and south of the latitude of Cape Sarichef Light at 54º 35.89' N.
				  lat.
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 32 - Dungeness Crab Fishery › Article 9 - Registration Area J (Westward) › 5 AAC 32.406 - Area J registration

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) As required under
				  5 AAC 32.005(b), the districts of
				  Registration Area J are designated as follows:
(1) Kodiak District: superexclusive
				  registration district;
(2) Chignik
				  District: superexclusive registration district;
(3) Alaska Peninsula District: superexclusive
				  registration district;
(4) North
				  Peninsula District: nonexclusive registration district;
(5) Aleutian District: nonexclusive
				  registration district.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 32 - Dungeness Crab Fishery › Article 9 - Registration Area J (Westward) › 5 AAC 32.410 - Fishing seasons for Registration Area J

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) In the Kodiak, Chignik, Alaska Peninsula,
				  and Aleutian Districts, male Dungeness crab may be taken or possessed only from
				  12:00 noon May 1 until 11:59 p.m. October 31, except that in the waters of the
				  Kodiak District south of the latitude of Boot Point at 56° 49.98' N. lat.,
				  and east of longitude of Boot Point at 153° 46.10' W. long. and waters
				  south of the latitude of Cape Ikolik at 57° 17.40' N. lat., and west of the
				  longitude of Boot Point at 153° 46.10' W. long., male Dungeness crab may be
				  taken or possessed only from 12:00 noon June 15 until 11:59 p.m. October
				  31.
(b) In the North Peninsula
				  District, male Dungeness crab may be taken or possessed from 12:00 noon May 1
				  until 12:00 noon October 18.
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 32 - Dungeness Crab Fishery › Article 9 - Registration Area J (Westward) › 5 AAC 32.415 - Operation of pot gear for Registration Area J

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) All pot gear
				  used for commercial Dungeness crab fishing in Registration Area J shall:
(1) be removed from the water at least once
				  within a 21-day period; or
(2) have
				  all bait and bait containers removed and all doors secured fully
				  open.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 32 - Dungeness Crab Fishery › Article 9 - Registration Area J (Westward) › 5 AAC 32.425 - Lawful gear for Registration Area J

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Dungeness crab may be taken only with
				  Dungeness crab pots or ring nets.
(b) The following Dungeness crab pot limits
				  are in effect for Registration Area J:
(1) in
				  the Kodiak District, an aggregate of no more than 700 pots may be operated from
				  a validly registered Dungeness crab vessel; and
(2) in the Alaska Peninsula District, an
				  aggregate of no more than 500 pots may be operated from a validly registered
				  Dungeness crab vessel.
(3) in the
				  North Peninsula District, the department will establish the individual vessel
				  pot limit after the April 1 registration deadline; if five vessels or fewer are
				  validly registered by the registration deadline, the pot limit will be 750 pots
				  per vessel; if more than five vessels are validly registered by the
				  registration deadline, the pot limit will be 500 pots per
				  vessel.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 32 - Dungeness Crab Fishery › Article 9 - Registration Area J (Westward) › 5 AAC 32.440 - Registration Area J inspection points

Current through May 31, 2024
The initial inspection points and reinspection points for
					 Registration Area J are at Kodiak, Sand Point, and Dutch Harbor, and at other
					 locations that may be specified by the commissioner.
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 32 - Dungeness Crab Fishery › Article 9 - Registration Area J (Westward) › 5 AAC 32.450 - Closed waters in Registration Area J

Current through May 31, 2024
Dungeness crab may not be taken from waters of Iliuliuk Bay
					 south of 53º 53' N. lat.
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 32 - Dungeness Crab Fishery › Article 9 - Registration Area J (Westward) › 5 AAC 32.460 - Tenders for Dungeness crab in the Kodiak District

Current through May 31, 2024
Notwithstanding
					 5 AAC 32.033(d) (2), in the Kodiak
					 District, a vessel registered to fish for Dungeness crab may tender Dungeness
					 crab from other registered Dungeness crab vessels. A tender operator must be an
					 authorized agent of a processor. Before using a vessel as a tender under this
					 section, the tender operator shall register as a tender with the department at
					 the department office in Kodiak. A tender operator shall complete an ADF&G
					 fish ticket at the first point of delivery from the catcher vessel.
The department office in Kodiak is located at Department
						of Fish and Game, Division of Commercial Fisheries, 351 Research Court, Kodiak,
						Alaska 99615-7400.
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 33 - Southeastern Alaska Area › Article 1 - Description of Area › 5 AAC 33.001 - 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 47 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 33 - Southeastern Alaska Area › Article 1 - Description of Area › 5 AAC 33.100 - Description of area

Current through May 31, 2024
The Southeastern Alaska Area consists of all waters of
					 Alaska within an area that has as its southern boundary the International
					 Boundary at Dixon Entrance, and as its northern boundary a line extending
					 seaward from the western tip of Cape Fairweather at 58º 47.89' N. lat.,
					 137º 56.68' W. long. to the intersection with the seaward limit of the
					 three-nautical-mile territorial sea at 58º 45.91' N. lat., 138º
					 01.53' 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 33 - Southeastern Alaska Area › Article 2 - Fishing Districts and Sections › 5 AAC 33.200 - Fishing districts and sections

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) District 1: all
				  waters east and north of a line from the southernmost tip of Caamano Point at
				  55° 29.85' N. lat., 131° 58.21' W. long., south to a point in Dixon
				  Entrance District at 54° 40.00' N. lat., 131° 45.00' W. long., and
				  waters north of a line from 54° 40,00' N. lat, 131° 45.00' W. long.,
				  then east to 54° 42.48' N. lat., 130° 36.92' W. long.;
(1) Section 1-A: all waters of Portland Canal
				  north of the latitude of Hattie Island Light at 55° 17.25' N. lat.,
				  129° 58.20' W. long.;
(2)
				  Section 1-B: all waters of the district south of Section 1-A and east and south
				  of a line extending three nautical miles from the range marker located at Foggy
				  Point at 54° 55.50' N. lat. 130° 58.60' W. long., to an offshore point
				  at 54° 56.86' N. lat, 131° 03.24' W. long., and then south to intersect
				  a line between Barren Island Light and Lord Rock Light at 54° 44.02' N.
				  lat., 131° 03.24' W. long., then to Lord Rock Light at 54° 43.55' N.
				  lat. 130° 49.22' W. long., and then tine south to a point in Dixon Entrance
				  District at 54° 42.03' N. lat, 130° 49.22' W. long.
(3) Section 1-C: waters of the district
				  between a line from a point at 55° 11.89' N. lat, 131° 05.04 W. long.,
				  located on Point Sykes to a point at 55° 12.22' N. lat., 131° 05.70' W.
				  long., located one-half mile northwest of Point Sykes to Point Alava at 55°
				  11.63' N. lat, 131° 10.70' W. long., and a line from the westernmost tip of
				  Point Eva at 55° 33.61' N. lat. 130° 52.60' W. long., to the
				  southeastern most tip of Cactus Point at 55° 33.29' IN. lat., 130°
				  56.59' W. long.;
(4) Section 1-D:
				  waters of the district between a line from the westernmost tip of Point Eva at
				  55° 33.61' N. lat, 130° 52.60' W. long., to the southeasternmost tip of
				  Cactus Point at 55° 33.29' IM. lat., 130° 56.66' W. long., and a line
				  from Nose Point at 55° 48.32' N. lat, 131° 42.53' W. long., to the
				  northernmost tip of Snail Point at 55° 49.47' N. lat. 131° 46.25' W.
				  long.;
(5) Section 1-E: waters of
				  the district between a line from the southernmost tip of Caamano Point at
				  55° 29.85' N, lat., 131° 58,21' W, long., to Point Higgins at 55°
				  27.43' N. lat., 131° 50.03' W. long., and a line from Nose Point at 55°
				  48.32' N. lat., 131° 42.53' W. long., to the northernmost tip of Snail
				  Point at 55° 49.47' IN. lat, 131° 46.25' W. long.;
(6)Section 1-F: all other waters of the
				  district.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 33 - Southeastern Alaska Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 33.310 - Fishing seasons and periods for net gear

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Salmon may be
				  taken with purse seines in the following locations only during fishing periods
				  established by emergency order that will generally begin on Sundays:
(1) District 1, Sections 1-C, 1-D, 1-E, and
				  1-F only;
(2) District 2;
(3) District 3;
(4) District 4, from the first Sunday in July
				  until a closing date made by emergency order;
(5) District 5;
(6) District 6, Sections 6-C, 6-D, and 6-E
				  only;
(7) District 7;
(8) District 9;
(9) District 10;
(10) District 11, Sections 11-A and 11-D
				  only;
(11) District 12; except that
				  Section 12-A north of the latitude of Point Marsden and Section 12-B may open
				  before August 1 only as provided in
				  5 AAC 33.366(a);
(12) District 13;
(13) District 14.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 33 - Southeastern Alaska Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 33.311 - Fishing seasons and periods for troll gear (Repealed)

Current through May 31, 2024
As of Register 147, Oct. 1998, the substance of former
						5 AAC 33.311 appears in
						5 AAC 29.070 -
						5 AAC 29.110 and
						5 AAC 39.130.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 33 - Southeastern Alaska Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 33.312 - Fishing zones for troll gear (Repealed)

Current through May 31, 2024
As of Register 147, Oct. 1998, the substance of former
						5 AAC 33.312 appears in
						5 AAC 29.001,
						5 AAC 29.020, and
						5 AAC 29.025.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 33 - Southeastern Alaska Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 33.313 - Application of coastal trolling regulations (Repealed)

Current through May 31, 2024
As of Register 147, Oct. 1998, the substance of former
						5 AAC 33.313 appears in
						5 AAC 29.001.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 33 - Southeastern Alaska Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 33.314 - Troll gear operation; fish tickets (Repealed)

Current through May 31, 2024
As of Register 147, Oct. 1998, the substance of former
						5 AAC 33.314 appears in
						5 AAC 29.130.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 33 - Southeastern Alaska Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 33.330 - Gear

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Except as provided in 5 AAC 29, salmon
				  may be taken only by drift gillnets and purse seines.
(b) Notwithstanding
				  5 AAC 39.240, a permit holder may use a registered
				  salmon fishing vessel, when it has fishing gear on board, to tow another
				  registered salmon fishing vessel with fishing gear on board it if the permit
				  holder for the vessel being towed is on board one of the vessels.
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 33 - Southeastern Alaska Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 33.331 - Gillnet specifications and operation

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) A person may
				  not operate a drift gillnet vessel that has on the reel or in the water more
				  than one legal limit of drift gillnet gear. Extra gillnet gear may be on board
				  the vessel. Any gear in excess of one legal limit of drift gillnet gear must be
				  sacked or bagged. The sack or bag must totally contain the net and must be
				  secured closed. However, unassembled gillnet gear components, including cork,
				  webbing, or leadline may be on board a fishing vessel without being sacked or
				  bagged. For the purposes of this section, the legal limit of drift gillnet gear
				  is one gillnet no longer than the maximum length specified in (c) of this
				  section.
(b) In the Southeastern
				  Alaska Area, a drift gillnet may not be more than 60 meshes in depth, except
				  that there is no maximum depth restriction for a gillnet operated for king
				  salmon cost recovery by a private nonprofit hatchery operator or under contract
				  to a regional aquaculture association in a special harvest area described in
				  5 AAC 40.030 -
				  5 AAC 40.081.
(1) in
				  the Southeastern Alaska Area, a drift gillnet may not be deeper than 60
				  meshes;
(2) repealed
				  7/26/2003;
(3) repealed
				  7/26/2003;
(4) there is no maximum
				  depth restriction for a gillnet operated for king salmon cost recovery by a
				  private nonprofit hatchery operator or under contract to a regional aquaculture
				  association in a special harvest area described in
				  5 AAC 40.030 -
				  5 AAC 40.045.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 33 - Southeastern Alaska Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 33.332 - Seine specifications and operation

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) No purse seine
				  may be less than 150 meshes or more than 450 meshes in depth, or less than 150
				  fathoms or more than 250 fathoms in length, hung measure.
(b) Seine mesh may not be more than four and
				  one-half inches, except the first 25 meshes above the lead line may not be more
				  than seven inches.
(c) No seine
				  lead may be more than 75 fathoms in length and 100 meshes in depth.
(d) Repealed 4/26/70.
(e) A seine lead may not be permanently
				  attached to a seine and may be operated only on the bunt end of a
				  seine.
(f) Except as specified in
				  5 AAC 39.260(f), the mesh size of a
				  seine lead may not be less than seven inches or more than seven and one-half
				  inches.
(g) A purse seine is
				  considered to have ceased fishing as specified in 5 AAC 39,260(c).
(h) During concurrent seine and drift gillnet
				  periods in Sections 1-B and 1-F, seine nets may not be in the water in Section
				  1-B.
(i) Notwithstanding
				  5 AAC 39.240(a), a vessel may have on
				  board at the same time purse seine gear as described in this section and hand
				  troll gear or power troll gear as described in
				  5 AAC 29.120. One or more persons on board the vessel
				  must possess a CFEC permit or interim use permit for Southeastern purse seine
				  gear and either a hand troll or power troll permit. Both gear permits must be
				  in possession on board the vessel and available for inspection by a local
				  representative of the department or a peace officer of the state. Each permit
				  holder on board the vessel must ensure that
(1) fish harvested by one gear type are
				  offloaded, landed, and documented on a fish ticket before operating any other
				  gear type;
(2) any purse seine gear
				  is removed from the vessel or stowed below deck before and during operation of
				  troll gear and when troll-caught fish are on board the vessel;
(3) cannon balls and other troll weights on
				  board the vessel are removed from trolling wires and stored below deck before
				  and during operation of purse seine gear and when purse seine-caught fish are
				  on board the vessel.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 33 - Southeastern Alaska Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 33.359 - Section 6-D Pink Salmon Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The department
				  may open Section 6-D to drift gillnet fishing during the period of time that is
				  after the first Saturday in August and before the first Sunday in September as
				  described in this section.
(b) If a
				  purse seine fishery is announced to be opened or is opened in the portion of
				  Section 6-D for any portion of one day, the drift gillnet fishery may open as
				  follows:
(1) the drift gillnet fishery will
				  open during the weekly open drift gillnet fishing period immediately following
				  the purse seine fishery closure;
(2) the drift gillnet fishery will close at
				  11:59 p.m. the day before the next scheduled purse seine fishery opening or at
				  the conclusion of the weekly open drift gillnet fishing period, whichever
				  occurs first.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 33 - Southeastern Alaska Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 33.360 - District 1 Pink Salmon Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
On and after the third Sunday in July in District 1, when a
					 purse seine fishery is harvesting pink salmon stocks subject to concurrent
					 salmon fishing by drift gillnets in Section 1-B, the following time formula
					 applies:
(1) when the purse seine
				  fishery is open for any portion of one day during a fishing week, the drift
				  gillnet fishery must be open for 48 hours during the same fishing
				  week;
(2) when the purse seine
				  fishery is open for any portion of two days during a fishing week, the drift
				  gillnet fishery must be open for 96 hours during the same fishing
				  week;
(3) when the purse seine
				  fishery is open for any portion of three or more days during a fishing week,
				  the drift gillnet fishery must be open for 120 hours during the same fishing
				  week.
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 33 - Southeastern Alaska Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 33.361 - United States-Canada Salmon Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The department
				  shall manage the recreational, troll, purse seine and gillnet salmon fisheries
				  in the Southeastern Alaska and Yakutat Areas in accordance with the
				  conservation and harvest goals, and the understandings, of the United
				  States-Canada Pacific Salmon Treaty.
(b) Repealed 6/25/89.
(c) Repealed 6/25/89.
(d) Repealed 6/25/89.
(e) Repealed 6/25/89.
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 33 - Southeastern Alaska Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 33.363 - Management guidelines for allocating Southeast Alaska pink, chum, and sockeye salmon between commercial net fisheries

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Present
				  management of state-financed hatchery and enhanced stocks represents the
				  collective biological, social, and economic factors which have been applied
				  over time and have resulted in current regulations.
(b) Similarly, present management of wild
				  stocks represents the collective biological, social, and economic factors which
				  have been applied over time and have resulted in current regulations.
(c) As a general matter, the harvest of fish
				  stocks will be managed primarily for the benefit of the user groups within the
				  district to which those stocks are bound. The board recognizes that biological,
				  social, and economic factors and the current regulatory structure may result in
				  the need to harvest such stocks outside the district for which they are
				  bound.
(d) The board recognizes
				  that stock fluctuations will result in differential harvests of stocks bound
				  for other districts. The board will not consider such changes in harvests as a
				  basis for regulatory changes not based purely on conservation concerns. If
				  conservation concerns necessitate a change in management, these changes will be
				  reversed when, if, and to the degree, that, there is no longer a conservation
				  concern.
(e) In applying this
				  policy to mixed stock cape and corridor fisheries, deviation from the current
				  management should not be allowed except to access harvestable surpluses of
				  significant stocks that will otherwise go unharvested. Harvest of these stocks
				  must be conducted in a manner that minimizes the incidental take of other
				  species and that does not jeopardize the conservation of any stock. The board
				  recognizes that it may need to establish the allowable number or percentage of
				  incidental catch in these highly mixed stock areas in order to ensure that the
				  department is not forced into making allocation decisions.
(f) As a general proposition, private
				  nonprofit hatchery stocks supported by fishermen assessments will be managed to
(1) maximize harvest in the common property
				  fisheries consistent with wild stock conservation concerns and the facility's
				  management plan; and
(2) give
				  primary emphasis to the facility's plan for allocation within the common
				  property fisheries within the special harvest area.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 33 - Southeastern Alaska Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 33.364 - Southeastern Alaska Area Enhanced Salmon Allocation Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The
				  purpose of the management plan contained in this section is to provide a fair
				  and reasonable distribution of the harvest of salmon from enhancement projects
				  among the seine, troll, and drift gillnet commercial fisheries, and to reduce
				  conflicts among these users, in the Southeastern Alaska Area. The Board of
				  Fisheries establishes the following value allocations:
(1) seine - 44 percent - 49
				  percent;
(2) hand and power troll -
				  27 percent - 32 percent;
(3) drift
				  gillnet - 24 percent - 29 percent.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 33 - Southeastern Alaska Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 33.365 - Southeastern Alaska-Yakutat Chinook and Coho Salmon Fisheries Management Plan (Repealed)

Current through May 31, 2024
As of Register 147, Oct. 1998, the substance of former
						5 AAC 33.365 appears in
						5 AAC 29.050 -
						5 AAC 29.080,
						5 AAC 29.100, and
						5 AAC 29.110.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 33 - Southeastern Alaska Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 33.366 - Northern Southeast seine salmon fishery management plans

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) During July,
				  the department may allow the operation of purse seines in District 12 north of
				  Point Marsden to harvest pink salmon migrating northward in Chatham Strait only
				  as follows:
(1) the department may open only
				  those portions of the area in which a harvestable abundance of pink salmon is
				  observed; open areas and times must consider conservation concerns for all
				  species in the area;
(2) the
				  department shall close the seine fishery in District 12 north of Point Marsden
				  after 15,000 wild sockeye salmon are harvested by seine vessels that the
				  department identifies as taken north of Point Marsden when other areas are open
				  concurrently through July 22; hatchery-produced sockeye salmon will not count
				  against the 15,000 wild sockeye salmon harvest limit; during the openings, the
				  department will use aerial flyovers, on-the-ground sampling, interviews, and
				  fish tickets to estimate the sockeye salmon harvest north of Point
				  Marsden.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 33 - Southeastern Alaska Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 33.367 - Harvest and allocation of net caught salmon (Repealed)

Current through May 31, 2024
As of Register 166, July 2003, the substance of former
						5 AAC 33.367 appears in
						5 AAC 29.060
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 33 - Southeastern Alaska Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 33.368 - District 8 King Salmon Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The purpose of
				  the management plan in this section is to provide for abundance-based
				  management of king salmon, reduce the conflicts between commercial and sport
				  fishermen, and reduce the incidental harvest of steelhead.
(b) District 8 will open on the second Monday
				  in June, except that from the first Monday in May through the third Monday in
				  June the commissioner may, by emergency order, open drift gillnet fishing in
				  the waters of District 8.
(c)
				  Fishing periods established under this section will begin at 8:00 a.m. and may
				  not exceed four days a week before the second Monday in June. The commissioner
				  may not establish fishing periods under this section to occur
(1) on a weekend day;
(2) on a state or federal holiday;
				  and
(3) after 8:00 a.m. on
				  Wednesday during the week before the Memorial Day weekend.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 33 - Southeastern Alaska Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 33.369 - District 1: Herring Bay Terminal Harvest Area Salmon Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The
				  management plan in this section allows for a harvest of Whitman Lake
				  hatchery-produced king salmon by the troll, personal use, and sport
				  fisheries.
(b) The Herring Bay
				  Troll Terminal Harvest Area is open for commercial salmon trolling from July 1
				  through August 30, unless closed earlier by emergency order. The Herring Bay
				  Troll Terminal Harvest Area consists of those waters of Revillagigedo Channel
				  north and west of a line from the easternmost tip of Carroll Point across to
				  Spire Island light on the eastern shore of Annette Island, Carroll Inlet south
				  of the latitude of the southernmost tip of California Head, George Inlet south
				  of 55º 20.80' N. lat., and south of a line from a point located on the
				  southeastern shore of Gravina Island at 55º 17.65' N. lat., 131º
				  37.03' W. long., to a point on the southwest shore of Tongass Narrows at
				  55º 18.63' N. lat., 131º 35.20' W. long., and east of a line from the
				  southernmost tip of Gravina Point located on the southeast shore of Gravina
				  Island to the northernmost tip of Walden Point located on the northeast tip of
				  Annette Island, except that from 12:01 a.m. July 1 through 11:59 p.m. July 31,
				  the waters of Carroll Inlet south of 55º 24.27' N. lat. are included in
				  the Herring Bay Troll Terminal Harvest Area.
(c) The Herring Bay Personal Use Terminal
				  Harvest area is open for personal use fishing during the times that the Herring
				  Bay Troll Terminal Harvest Area is open for commercial salmon troll gear under
				  (b) of this section. The Herring Bay Personal Use Terminal Harvest Area
				  consists of those waters of Herring Cove west of a line running from the
				  southern entrance of Hole-In-The-Wall harbor to an unnamed creek one-eighth of
				  a mile north of Whitman Creek (signed and red painted rocks) to the
				  fresh/saltwater boundary signs (signed and green painted rocks) located at the
				  mouth of Herring Cove Creek. The following conditions apply to a personal use
				  salmon fishing permit issued under 5 AAC 77.682 for the Herring Bay Personal
				  Use Terminal Harvest Area:
(1) salmon may be
				  taken for personal use only by drift gillnets;
(2) a drift gillnet may be 10 fathoms or less
				  in length; a gillnet may not be anchored or attached to a boat; a gillnet may
				  be any mesh size; and
(3) the daily
				  bag and possession limit for king salmon is 50 fish, unless specified by
				  emergency order; any incidental harvest of other finfish species shall be
				  listed on the personal use salmon fishing permit.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 33 - Southeastern Alaska Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 33.370 - District 1: Neets Bay Hatchery Salmon Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The intent of
				  the Board of Fisheries in adopting this management plan is to distribute the
				  harvest of hatchery-produced fall chum and coho salmon in Neets Bay between the
				  purse seine, troll, and drift gillnet fleets. In addition to that goal, the
				  board and the public would like to have a fishery in Neets Bay that produces a
				  quality product that will allow the Southern Southeast Regional Aquaculture
				  Association (SSRAA) to meet its corporation escapement goal with the least
				  number of fish and provide the highest possible price to the
				  fishermen.
(b) The department, in
				  consultation with SSRAA, shall manage Neets Bay east of the longitude of the
				  easternmost tip of Bug Island to the closed waters area at the head of the bay
				  to distribute the harvest of Neets Bay hatchery-produced salmon between the
				  purse seine, troll, and drift gillnet fleets by setting the fishing times for
				  those fleets as follows:
(1) salmon may be
				  taken by troll gear only during periods established by emergency
				  order;
(2) salmon may be taken by
				  purse seines and drift gillnets only during periods established by emergency
				  order as follows:
(A) openings for seines and
				  gillnets must be rotated between net gear groups with a closure of at least 24
				  hours between openings; after July 4, the first opening will start with the
				  gear group furthest below the gear group's enhanced allocation under
				  5 AAC 33.364, based on the most recent five-year rolling
				  average data available;
(B) a
				  gillnet opening must be no less than 24 hours in duration and a seine opening
				  must be no less than 12 hours in duration, except that after June 20 the time
				  ratio for gillnet openings to seine openings is one to one;
(3) repealed 6/25/89;
(4) repealed 6/25/89;
(5) from the second Sunday in June through
				  August 1, the area described in (b) of this section shall be expanded to Neets
				  Bay east of the longitude of Chin Point to the closed waters area at the head
				  of the bay.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 33 - Southeastern Alaska Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 33.371 - District 1: Carroll Inlet Terminal Harvest Area Salmon Management Plan (Repealed)

Current through May 31, 2024
Authority:
AS
						16.05.060
AS
						16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 33 - Southeastern Alaska Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 33.372 - District 1: Nakat Inlet Terminal Harvest Area Salmon Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) This
				  management plan provides for the terminal area common property harvest of
				  hatchery-produced coho and chum salmon in the Nakat Inlet Terminal Harvest Area
				  and distributes the harvest between the troll and drift gillnet
				  fleets.
(b) The department, in
				  consultation with the Southern Southeast Regional Aquaculture Association
				  (SSRAA), shall manage the waters of Nakat Inlet north of Surprise Point at
				  54º 49.10' N. lat. and west of 130º 42.75' W. long. from June 1
				  through November 10 to distribute the harvest of hatchery-produced coho and
				  chum salmon. Fishing will be open continuously to troll gear and drift gillnet
				  gear from June 1 through November 10, unless closed earlier by emergency
				  order.
(c) All waters within 500
				  yards of the terminus of Nakat Lake Creek (101-11-39) are closed to the taking
				  of salmon.
(d) A drift gillnet
				  operated in the terminal harvest area may not exceed 200 fathoms in
				  length.
(e) Salmon may be taken in
				  the terminal harvest area under sport and personal use fishing regulations at
				  any time. A personal use permit issued under
				  5 AAC 77.682 must include the following conditions:
(1) salmon may be taken for personal use only
				  by drift gillnets;
(2) a drift
				  gillnet operated for personal use may not exceed 50 fathoms in length;
				  and
(3) the annual bag and
				  possession limit for personal use is 25 salmon.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 33 - Southeastern Alaska Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 33.374 - District 12: Hidden Falls Hatchery Terminal Harvest Area Salmon Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The Hidden Falls Terminal Harvest Area
				  for chum, king, and coho salmon consists of the waters of District 12 within
				  two nautical miles of the Baranof Island shoreline south of the latitude of
				  South Point and north of 57° 06.83' N. lat., excluding the waters of Kelp
				  Bay.
(b) Purse seine and troll
				  openings will be managed by emergency order to harvest king and chum salmon
				  returning to the Hidden Falls Hatchery in excess of broodstock and cost
				  recovery needs.
(c) From April 15
				  through June 30, chum and king salmon may be taken by troll and purse seine
				  gear as follows:
(1) purse seine openings
				  will be limited to a maximum of two fishing days per week in the terminal
				  harvest area in order to harvest surplus chum salmon;
(2) if Sunday seine openings or mid-week
				  openings do not occur, in order to achieve broodstock and cost recovery goals,
				  the troll fishery for the harvest of chum salmon will be closed; if more than
				  seven days remain before the July 1 general troll fishery opening, troll
				  fisheries for king salmon may continue; however, chum salmon caught must be
				  released immediately and may not be retained or sold;
(3) before June 30, the waters of Kasnyku Bay
				  west of a line from North Point to the westernmost tip of Round Island and
				  north of the latitude of the westernmost tip of Round Island may be closed to
				  purse seine fishing in order to provide troll gear access to king
				  salmon.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 33 - Southeastern Alaska Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 33.375 - District 13: Silver Bay (Medvejie Creek Hatchery) Salmon Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The commissioner shall open and close, by
				  emergency order, salmon fishing seasons and periods in waters of Silver Bay
				  east of a line from Entry Point Light at 57° 01.98' N. lat, 135° 15.00'
				  W. long., to Silver Point at 57° 00.82' N. lat., 135° 18.10' W. long.,
				  to ensure chum salmon broodstock escapement to the Medvejie Creek Hatchery and
				  to allow for the common property fisheries to harvest excess salmon, including
				  king salmon by troll gear before July 31.
(b) The waters of Bear Cove are closed to
				  commercial salmon troll gear east of a line from a point on the south shore at
				  57º 00.77' N. lat., 135º 09.08' W. long. to the north shore at
				  57º 00.94' N. lat., 135º 09.23' W. long.
Authority:
AS
						16.05.060
AS
						16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 33 - Southeastern Alaska Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 33.376 - District 13: Deep Inlet Terminal Harvest Area Salmon Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The
				  intent of this management plan is to distribute the harvest of
				  hatchery-produced salmon in the area described in (b) of this section between
				  the purse seine, drift gillnet, and troll fleets.
(b) The department, in consultation with the
				  Northern Southeast Regional Aquaculture Association (NSRAA), shall open and
				  close, by emergency order, fishing seasons and periods to manage the waters of
				  Deep Inlet, Aleutkina Bay, and contiguous waters south of a line from a point
				  west of Pirates Cove at 56º 59.35' N. lat., 135º 22.63' W. long., to
				  the westernmost tip of Long Island, to the easternmost tip of Long Island, to
				  the westernmost tip of Emgeten Island, to the westernmost tip of Error Island,
				  to the westernmost tip of Berry Island, to the southernmost tip of Berry
				  Island, to the westernmost tip of the southernmost island in the Kutchuma
				  Island group, to the easternmost tip of the southernmost island in the Kutchuma
				  Island group, to the westernmost tip of an unnamed island at 57º 00.30' N.
				  lat., 135º 17.67' W. long., to a point on the southern side of the unnamed
				  island at 57º 00.08' N. lat., 135º 16.78' W. long., and then to a
				  point on the Baranof Island shore at 56º 59.93' N. lat., 135º 16.53'
				  W. long., as follows:
(1) salmon may be taken
				  by purse seines and drift gillnets only during periods established by emergency
				  order, as follows:
(A) openings for seines
				  and gillnets must be rotated between net gear groups; the department, in
				  consultation with NSRAA, shall close fishing between openings;
(B) the time ratio for gillnet openings to
				  seine openings is one to one;
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 33 - Southeastern Alaska Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 33.377 - District 2: Kendrick Bay Terminal Harvest Area Salmon Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The
				  management plan in this section allows for a harvest of hatchery-produced chum
				  salmon in the Kendrick Bay Terminal Harvest Area by the purse seine and troll
				  fleets.
(b) The department, in
				  consultation with the Southern Southeast Regional Aquaculture Association
				  (SSRAA), shall manage the Kendrick Bay Terminal Harvest Area from June 15
				  through September 30 to provide for the harvest of hatchery-produced chum
				  salmon by purse seine and troll gear, unless closed earlier by emergency order.
				  The Kendrick Bay Terminal Harvest Area consists of the waters of Kendrick Bay
				  west of 131º 59' W. long. and the waters of McLean Arm west of 131º
				  57.80' W. long.
(c) The
				  commissioner, by emergency order, shall close the area described in (b) of this
				  section to personal use and sport fishing if those fisheries are jeopardizing
				  the attainment of the hatchery's chum salmon escapement goal.
(d) The department shall include the
				  following conditions in a personal use salmon fishing permit issued under
				  5 AAC 77.682 for the area described in (b) of this
				  section:
(1) salmon may be taken for personal
				  use only by drift gillnets:
(2) a
				  drift gillnet operated for personal use may not exceed 50 fathoms in length;
				  and
(3) the annual bag and
				  possession limit for personal use is 25 salmon.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 33 - Southeastern Alaska Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 33.378 - District 11: Snettisham Hatchery Salmon Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
The department shall manage the enhanced sockeye salmon
					 production and returns from Port Snettisham to meet the following objectives,
					 in order of priority:
(1) sustain the
				  production of wild sockeye salmon from Crescent Lake and Speel Lake;
(2) manage the enhanced Snettisham sockeye
				  returns in a manner that does not prevent the achievement of escapement goals
				  or the Pacific Salmon Treaty harvest sharing agreements for the Taku River
				  salmon stocks;
(3) conduct annual
				  assessment programs during the harvest to estimate Snettisham wild sockeye
				  salmon stock escapements and the contributions of enhanced sockeye salmon to
				  the commercial fisheries in District 11;
(4) conduct the common property harvest in
				  the special harvest area by limiting time and area through emergency order
				  authority to protect the wild sockeye salmon runs.
Authority:
AS
						16.05.060
AS
						16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 33 - Southeastern Alaska Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 33.379 - District 1: Carroll lnlet Terminal Harvest Area Salmon Fishery A Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) This management
				  plan distributes the harvest of hatchery-produced king salmon in the Carroll
				  Inlet Terminal Harvest Area between the purse seine, troll and drift gillnet
				  fleets.
(b) The department, in
				  consultation with the Southern Southeast Regional Aquaculture Association
				  (SSRAA), shall, by emergency order, manage the Carroll Inlet Terminal Harvest
				  Area from June 1 through July 1 to provide for the harvest of hatchery-produced
				  king salmon by troll, purse seine, and drift gillnet gear. The Carroll Inlet
				  Terminal Harvest Area consists of the waters of Carroll Inlet north of the
				  latitude of Nigelius Point at 55° 33 .50' N. lat., 131° 21.14 W.
				  long.
(c) A drift gillnet operated
				  in the terminal harvest area may not exceed 200 fathoms in length.
(d) Instead of allowing the harvest of
				  hatchery-produced king salmon for cost recovery by the hatchery permit holder,
				  the commissioner may, after consultation with the hatchery operator, by
				  emergency order, open a joint common property and cost recovery assessment
				  fishery for king salmon as specified in
				  AS
				  16.10.455 to occur only in the waters as
				  described in (b) of this section.
Authority:
AS
						16.05.060
AS
						16.05.251
AS
						16.10.455