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Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 59 - Anchorage Bowl Drainages Area › 5 AAC 59.101 - Application of this chapter

Current through May 31, 2024
The provisions of this chapter apply to sport fishing for
				  finfish in the waters of the Anchorage Bowl Drainages Area.
Authority:
AS
					 16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 59 - Anchorage Bowl Drainages Area › 5 AAC 59.105 - Description of the Anchorage Bowl Drainages Area

Current through May 31, 2024
The Anchorage Bowl Drainages Area consists of all fresh water
				  drainages including all waters draining into the east side of Knik Arm south
				  of, and including, the Eklutna River drainage, and all waters draining into the
				  north and west sides of Turnagain Arm, and all waters draining into the south
				  side of Turnagain Arm east of, and including, Ingram Creek.
Authority:
AS
					 16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 59 - Anchorage Bowl Drainages Area › 5 AAC 59.120 - General provisions for seasons, bag, possession, annual, and size limits, and methods and means for the Anchorage Bowl Drainages Area

Current through May 31, 2024
Unless otherwise specified in
				  5 AAC 59.122 or by an emergency order issued under
				  AS
				  16.05.060, the following are the general
				  seasons, bag, possession, annual, and size limits, and methods and means that
				  apply to sport fishing for finfish in the Anchorage Bowl Drainages Area:
(1) king salmon
(A) 20 inches or greater in length may not be
				retained or possessed; no open season; king salmon 20 inches or greater in
				length that are caught must be released immediately; a person may not remove a
				king salmon from the water before releasing the fish;
(B) less than 20 inches in length
(i) may not be retained or possessed in
				flowing waters and unstocked lakes and ponds; no open season; king salmon less
				than 20 inches in length that are caught must be released immediately; a person
				may not remove a king salmon from the water before releasing the
				fish;
(ii) may be taken in stocked
				lakes and ponds from January 1 - December 31; bag and possession limit of five
				fish; for purposes of this sub-subparagraph, "stocked lakes and ponds" has the
				meaning given in (3)(A) of this section;
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 59 - Anchorage Bowl Drainages Area › 5 AAC 59.122 - Special provisions for the seasons, bag, possession, annual, and size limits, and methods and means for the Anchorage Bowl Drainages Area

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Unless
				otherwise specified by an emergency order issued under
				AS
				16.05.060, the following are localized
				additions and exceptions to the general seasons, bag, possession, annual, and
				size limits, and methods and means specified in
				5 AAC 59.120 and 5 AAC 75 for the Anchorage Bowl
				Drainages Area:
(1) the Bird Creek drainage
(A) from its mouth upstream 500 yards to an
				ADF&G regulatory marker is open from July 14 - December 31 to sportfishing
				for salmon, other than king salmon, with a bag and possession limit for salmon,
				other than king salmon, 16 inches or greater in length of three fish;
(B) is closed upstream of the ADF&G
				regulatory marker located 500 yards upstream of the mouth to sport fishing for
				all salmon;
(C) is closed to sport
				fishing from January 1 - July 13;
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 59 - Anchorage Bowl Drainages Area › 5 AAC 59.124 - Harvest record required; annual limits for the Anchorage Bowl Drainages Area (Repealed)

Current through May 31, 2024
In Register 209, April 2014, the provisions of
					 5 AAC 59.124 were repealed because the substance of the
					 harvest record provisions appears in
					 5 AAC 75.006, which applies on a statewide basis, and
					 the annual limit provisions for king salmon and rainbow/steelhead trout appear
					 in 5 AAC 59.120 and
					 5 AAC 59.122.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 59 - Anchorage Bowl Drainages Area › 5 AAC 59.140 - Freshwater guiding requirements in the Anchorage Bowl Drainages Area

Current through May 31, 2024
In the Anchorage Bowl Drainages Area, a person who is a sport
				  fishing guide may not sport fish in waters open to sport fishing for king
				  salmon 20 inches or greater in length while a client is present or within the
				  guide's control or responsibility, except when guiding a client with a
				  disability. For the purposes of this section, "disability" has the meaning
				  given in 42 U.S.C.
				  12102(2)(A) and (C), as
				  amended as of February 8, 1994.
Authority:
AS
					 16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 59 - Anchorage Bowl Drainages Area › 5 AAC 59.175 - Invasive Northern Pike Management Plan for the Anchorage Bowl Drainages Area

Current through May 31, 2024
The department shall manage invasive northern pike in the
				  waters of the Anchorage Bowl Drainages Area to minimize the impacts on
				  indigenous fish stocks and recreational fisheries. Waters containing invasive
				  northern pike will be managed so that there is a reasonable expectation of high
				  catch rates and harvesting daily bag limits. Notwithstanding any other
				  provision of this chapter, the commissioner may, by emergency order, change bag
				  and possession limits and alter method and means for northern pike to aid in
				  control of invasive northern pike.
Authority:
AS
					 16.05.060
AS
					 16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 59 - Anchorage Bowl Drainages Area › 5 AAC 59.180 - Riparian Habitat Fishery Management Plan for the Anchorage Bowl Drainages Area

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The Board of Fisheries (board) finds that
				freshwater fisheries in upper Cook Inlet, including the Anchorage Bowl
				Drainages Area, subject to access limitations of federal, state, and local
				landowners, are a recognized use of the fishery resources of upper Cook Inlet.
				The board also finds that, in some situations, freshwater fisheries are
				negatively impacting riparian habitats of upper Cook Inlet.
(b) The board recognizes the importance of
				maintaining the structural and functional integrity of upper Cook Inlet
				riparian habitats. Given this, the board will consider, as part of its
				deliberations, avoidable impacts to upper Cook Inlet riparian habitats related
				to sport fishing.
(c) If the
				commissioner determines that freshwater fisheries are likely to result in
				riparian habitat loss that could negatively affect the fishery resources of
				upper Cook Inlet, the commissioner may close, by emergency order, those
				riparian areas to fishing. This authority extends only to riparian areas in
				which there is a state, federal, or municipal property interest. The
				commissioner may reopen, by emergency order, those riparian areas to fishing if
				the commissioner determines that such openings will not compromise the
				integrity of the riparian habitats the emergency order is designed to protect.
				During seasons in areas opened by emergency order, fishing is only open at
				times selected by the commissioner at the commissioner's discretion, and
				fishing is only open from the following, selected at the commissioner's
				discretion:
(1) boats;
(2) boardwalks or similar
				structures;
(3) docks;
(4) gravel bars;
(5) natural formations identified by the
				commissioner;
(6) other areas
				identified by the commissioner as areas where use for fishing will not
				compromise the integrity of the habitat the closure is designed to
				protect.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 59 - Anchorage Bowl Drainages Area › 5 AAC 59.185 - Special management areas for rainbow trout in the Anchorage Bowl Drainages Area

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Unless otherwise specified in
				5 AAC 59.120 and
				5 AAC 59.122 or by an emergency order issued under
				AS
				16.05.060, only one unbaited, single-hook,
				artificial lure may be used in the special management areas for rainbow trout
				described in (b) of this section.
(b) Rainbow trout catch-and-release special
				management areas are those waters managed to maintain historical size and age
				distributions. The rainbow trout catch-and-release special management area in
				the Anchorage Bowl Drainages Area is in that portion of Campbell Creek upstream
				from the forks at Piper Street.
Authority:
AS
					 16.05.060
AS
					 16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 59 - Anchorage Bowl Drainages Area › 5 AAC 59.195 - Criteria for establishing special management areas for Dolly Varden in the Anchorage Bowl Drainages Area

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The Board of
				Fisheries (board) may consider proposals for regulations designating and
				dealing with special management areas for bodies of water in the Anchorage Bowl
				Drainages Area that would diversify sport fishing opportunity for populations
				of wild Dolly Varden, such as catch-and-release, fly-fishing-only, or trophy
				designation.
(b) In making
				determinations on regulatory proposals dealing with a special management area
				under (a) of this section, the board will consider the following criteria:
(1) stock status: the body of water must
				contain Dolly Varden populations that are naturally reproducing and possess
				some unique characteristic; the Dolly Varden populations must be shown to have
				maintained historical size and age composition, and numbers of Dolly Varden, or
				the area must have retained the habitat attributes necessary to allow these
				population characteristics to return to historical levels;
(2) history of quality fishing: a body of
				water that the public perceives as having provided quality Dolly Varden fishing
				will be preferred over a body of water that is not so perceived;
(3) proximity to a community: to avoid
				conflict with traditional consumptive use patterns by local residents, a body
				of water located near enough to a permanent community to be commonly used or
				visited by local residents will not be preferred, unless the establishment of
				the body of water as a special management area is requested or supported by the
				community;
(4) legal access: a body
				of water with more than 50 percent of its uplands publicly owned or that is
				determined to be navigable will be preferred;
(5) conflict with freshwater net fisheries: a
				body of water with a Dolly Varden fishery that is seasonally or spatially
				segregated from subsistence, personal use, and commercial net fisheries will be
				preferred;
(6) abundance and size
				of the Dolly Varden population: a body of water with unusually high numbers of
				Dolly Varden, with uniquely large Dolly Varden, or documented as having Dolly
				Varden that have been entered in the department's trophy fish program will be
				preferred;
(7) clear geographical
				boundaries: a body of water with clearly distinguishable legal regulatory
				boundaries will be preferred;
(8)
				relative economic importance of the wild Dolly Varden fishery: a body of water
				with a Dolly Varden fishery of high economic value to the state will be
				preferred;
(9) geographical
				distribution of special management waters: the proximity of a body of water to
				other special management waters and the availability of alternative locations
				not designated for special management;
(10) special research or educational needs:
				the need for a body of water for special management research or educational
				reasons.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 60 - Knik Arm Drainages Area › 5 AAC 60.101 - Application of this chapter

Current through May 31, 2024
The provisions of this chapter apply to sport fishing for
				  finfish in the waters of the Knik Arm Drainages Area.
Authority:
AS
					 16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 60 - Knik Arm Drainages Area › 5 AAC 60.105 - Description of the Knik Arm Drainages Area

Current through May 31, 2024
The Knik Arm Drainages Area consists of all freshwater
				  drainages bounded on the north by the southern boundary of the Willow Creek
				  drainage, on the west by a line one-half mile east of the Susitna River, on the
				  south by Cook Inlet and Knik Arm, and on the east by the Upper Susitna River
				  drainage upstream of its confluence with the Oshetna River.
Authority:
AS
					 16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 60 - Knik Arm Drainages Area › 5 AAC 60.120 - General provisions for seasons, bag, possession, annual, and size limits, and methods and means for the Knik Arm Drainages Area

Current through May 31, 2024
Unless otherwise specified in
				  5 AAC 60.122 or by an emergency order issued under
				  AS
				  16.05.060, the following are the general
				  seasons, bag, possession, annual, and size limits, and methods and means that
				  apply to sport fishing for finfish in the waters of the Knik Arm Drainages
				  Area:
(1) king salmon
(A) 20 inches or greater in length may not be
				retained or possessed; the season is closed for king salmon 20 inches or
				greater in length; a king salmon 20 inches or greater in length that is caught
				must be released immediately; a person may not remove a king salmon from the
				water before releasing the fish;
(B) less than 20 inches in length
(i) may not be retained or possessed in
				flowing waters and unstocked lakes and ponds; king salmon less than 20 inches
				in length that are caught must be released immediately and returned to the
				water unharmed; a person may not remove a king salmon from the water before
				releasing the fish;
(ii) may be
				taken in stocked lakes and ponds from January 1 - December 31; bag and
				possession limit of 10 fish; for purposes of this sub-subparagraph "stocked
				lakes and ponds" has the meaning given in (3)(B) of this
				section;
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 60 - Knik Arm Drainages Area › 5 AAC 60.124 - Harvest record required; annual limits for the Knik Arm Drainages Area (Repealed)

Current through May 31, 2024
In Register 209, April 2014, the provisions of
					 5 AAC 60.124 were repealed because the substance of the
					 harvest record provisions appears in
					 5 AAC 75.006, which applies on a statewide basis, and
					 the annual limit provisions for king salmon and rainbow/steelhead trout appear
					 in 5 AAC 60.120 and
					 5 AAC 60.122.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 60 - Knik Arm Drainages Area › 5 AAC 60.140 - Freshwater guiding requirements for the Knik Arm Drainages Area

Current through May 31, 2024
In the Knik Arm Drainages Area, a person who is a sport
				  fishing guide may not sport fish in waters open to sport fishing for king
				  salmon 20 inches or greater in length while a client is present or within the
				  guide's control or responsibility, except when guiding a client with a
				  disability. For the purposes of this section, "disability" has the meaning
				  given in 42 U.S.C.
				  12102(2)(A) and (C), as
				  amended as of February 8, 1994.
Authority:
AS
					 16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 60 - Knik Arm Drainages Area › 5 AAC 60.175 - Invasive Northern Pike Management Plan for the Knik Arm Drainages Area

Current through May 31, 2024
The department shall manage invasive northern pike in the
				  waters of the Knik Arm Drainages Area to minimize the impacts on indigenous
				  fish stocks and recreational fisheries. Waters containing invasive northern
				  pike will be managed so that there is a reasonable expectation of high catch
				  rates and harvesting daily bag limits. Notwithstanding any other provision of
				  this chapter, the commissioner may, by emergency order, change bag and
				  possession limits and alter method and means for northern pike to aid in
				  control of invasive northern pike.
Authority:
AS
					 16.05.060
AS
					 16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 60 - Knik Arm Drainages Area › 5 AAC 60.180 - Riparian Habitat Fishery Management Plan for the Knik Arm Drainages Area

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The
				Board of Fisheries (board) finds that freshwater fisheries in upper Cook Inlet,
				including the Knik Arm Drainages Area, subject to access limitations of
				federal, state, and local landowners, are a recognized use of the fishery
				resources of upper Cook Inlet. The board also finds that, in some situations,
				freshwater fisheries are negatively impacting riparian habitats of upper Cook
				Inlet.
(b) The board recognizes the
				importance of maintaining the structural and functional integrity of upper Cook
				Inlet riparian habitats. Given this, the board will consider, as part of its
				deliberations, avoidable impacts to upper Cook Inlet riparian habitats related
				to sport fishing.
(c) If the
				commissioner determines that freshwater fisheries are likely to result in
				riparian habitat loss that could negatively affect the fishery resources of
				upper Cook Inlet, the commissioner may close, by emergency order, those
				riparian areas to fishing. This authority extends only to riparian areas in
				which there is a state, federal, or municipal property interest. The
				commissioner may reopen, by emergency order, those riparian areas to fishing if
				the commissioner determines that such openings will not compromise the
				integrity of the riparian habitats the emergency order is designed to protect.
				During seasons in areas opened by emergency order, fishing is only open at
				times selected by the commissioner at the commissioner's discretion, and
				fishing is only open from the following, selected at the commissioner's
				discretion:
(1) boats;
(2) boardwalks or similar
				structures;
(3) docks;
(4) gravel bars;
(5) natural formations identified by the
				commissioner;
(6) other areas
				identified by the commissioner as areas where use for fishing will not
				compromise the integrity of the habitat the closure is designed to
				protect.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 60 - Knik Arm Drainages Area › 5 AAC 60.185 - Special management areas for rainbow trout in the Knik Arm Drainages Area

Current through May 31, 2024
(a)
				Unless otherwise specified in
				5 AAC 60.120 and
				5 AAC 61.122 or by an emergency order issued under
				AS
				16.05.060, only one unbaited, single-hook,
				artificial lure may be used in the special management areas for rainbow trout
				described in (b) of this section.
(b) Rainbow trout catch-and-release special
				management areas are those waters managed to maintain historical size and age
				distributions. The rainbow trout catch-and-release special management areas in
				the Knik Arm Drainages Area are Long (Kepler-Bradley Complex) and Wishbone
				Lakes.
Authority:
AS
					 16.05.060
AS
					 16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 60 - Knik Arm Drainages Area › 5 AAC 60.195 - Criteria for establishing special management areas for Dolly Varden in the Knik Arm Drainages Area

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The Board of
				Fisheries (board) may consider proposals for regulations designating and
				dealing with special management areas for bodies of water in the Knik Arm
				Drainages Area that would diversify sport fishing opportunity for populations
				of wild Dolly Varden, such as catch-and-release, fly-fishing-only, or trophy
				designation.
(b) In making
				determinations on regulatory proposals dealing with a special management area
				under (a) of this section, the board will consider the following criteria:
(1) stock status: the body of water must
				contain Dolly Varden populations that are naturally reproducing and possess
				some unique characteristic; the Dolly Varden populations must be shown to have
				maintained historical size and age composition, and numbers of Dolly Varden, or
				the area must have retained the habitat attributes necessary to allow these
				population characteristics to return to historical levels;
(2) history of quality fishing: a body of
				water that the public perceives as having provided quality Dolly Varden fishing
				will be preferred over a body of water that is not so perceived;
(3) proximity to a community: to avoid
				conflict with traditional consumptive use patterns by local residents, a body
				of water located near enough to a permanent community to be commonly used or
				visited by local residents will not be preferred, unless the establishment of
				the body of water as a special management area is requested or supported by the
				community;
(4) legal access: a body
				of water with more than 50 percent of its uplands publicly owned or that is
				determined to be navigable will be preferred;
(5) conflict with freshwater net fisheries: a
				body of water with a Dolly Varden fishery that is seasonally or spatially
				segregated from subsistence, personal use, and commercial net fisheries will be
				preferred;
(6) abundance and size
				of the Dolly Varden population: a body of water with unusually high numbers of
				Dolly Varden, with uniquely large Dolly Varden, or documented as having Dolly
				Varden that have been entered in the department's trophy fish program will be
				preferred;
(7) clear geographical
				boundaries: a body of water with clearly distinguishable legal regulatory
				boundaries will be preferred;
(8)
				relative economic importance of the wild Dolly Varden fishery: a body of water
				with a Dolly Varden fishery of high economic value to the state will be
				preferred;
(9) geographical
				distribution of special management waters: the proximity of a body of water to
				other special management waters and the availability of alternative locations
				not designated for special management;
(10) special research or educational needs:
				the need for a body of water for special management research or educational
				reasons.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 61 - Susitna River Drainage Area › 5 AAC 61.101 - Application of this chapter

Current through May 31, 2024
The provisions of this chapter apply to sport fishing for
				  finfish in the waters of the Susitna River Drainage Area.
Authority:
AS
					 16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 61 - Susitna River Drainage Area › 5 AAC 61.105 - Description of the Susitna River Drainage Area

Current through May 31, 2024
The Susitna River Drainage Area consists of the Susitna River
				  and all fresh water drainages that flow into the Susitna River, excluding the
				  upper Susitna River drainage upstream of its confluence with the Oshetna
				  River.
Authority:
AS
					 16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 61 - Susitna River Drainage Area › 5 AAC 61.106 - Description of Susitna River Drainage Area units

Current through May 31, 2024
The following are the sport fishing units of the Susitna
				  River Drainage Area:
(1) Unit 1:
				waters of the Susitna River from its mouth upstream to the confluence of the
				Deshka River and westside tributaries to that portion of the Susitna River
				including the Alexander Creek drainage and the Deshka River drainage, but
				excluding the Yentna River drainage and all eastside water within one-half mile
				of the Susitna River;
(2) Unit 2:
				waters of the Susitna River drainage from its confluence with the Deshka River,
				upstream to its confluence with the Talkeetna River, excluding the Talkeetna
				River;
(3) Unit 3: waters of the
				Susitna River drainage from its confluence with Talkeetna River upstream to its
				confluence with the Oshetna River, including the Oshetna River drainage but
				excluding the Chulitna River drainage;
(4) Unit 4: flowing waters, lakes, and ponds
				of the Yentna River drainage;
(5)
				Unit 5: flowing waters, lakes, and ponds of the Talkeetna River
				drainage;
(6) Unit 6: flowing
				waters, lakes, and ponds of the Chulitna River drainage.
Authority:
AS
					 16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 61 - Susitna River Drainage Area › 5 AAC 61.110 - General provisions for seasons, bag, possession, annual, and size limits, and methods and means for the Susitna River Drainage Area

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Unless
				otherwise specified in
				5 AAC 61.112 -
				5 AAC 61.123 or by emergency order issued under
				AS
				16.05.060, the following are the general
				seasons, bag, possession, annual, and size limits, and methods and means for
				the Susitna River Drainage Area:
(1) king
				salmon
(A) 20 inches or greater in length may
				be taken only from January 1 - July 13; bag and possession limit is one fish;
				except as provided in (b) of this section, there is an annual limit of five
				king salmon 20 inches or greater in length and a harvest record is required, as
				specified in
				5 AAC 75.006; a king salmon 20 inches or greater in
				length removed from the water shall be retained and becomes part of the bag
				limit of the person originally hooking it; a person may not remove a king
				salmon from the water before releasing the fish;
(B) less than 20 inches in length
(i) may be taken from January 1 - July 13 in
				flowing waters and unstocked lakes and ponds; bag and possession limit of 10
				fish; a person may not remove a king salmon from the water before releasing the
				fish;
(ii) may be taken from
				January 1 - December 31 in stocked lakes and ponds; bag and possession limit of
				10 fish; a person may not remove a king salmon from the water before releasing
				the fish; for the purposes of this sub-subparagraph, "stocked lakes and ponds"
				has the same meaning given in (3)(D) of this
				section;
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 61 - Susitna River Drainage Area › 5 AAC 61.112 - Special provisions and localized additions and exceptions to the seasons, bag, possession, and size limits, and methods and means for Unit 1 of the Susitna River Drainage Area

Current through May 31, 2024
Unless otherwise specified by an emergency order issued under
				  AS
				  16.05.060, the following are localized
				  additions and exceptions to the general seasons, bag, possession, and size
				  limits, and methods and means to the general provisions specified in
				  5 AAC 61.110 and 5 AAC 75 for Unit 1 of the Susitna
				  River Drainage Area:
(1) from
				September 1 - July 13, in flowing waters only unbaited, artificial lures may be
				used;
(2) in waters open to sport
				fishing for king salmon, from May 15 - July 13, sport fishing for any finfish
				species is closed from 11:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m.;
(3) except in Alexander Creek, the bag and
				possession limit for salmon, other than king salmon, 16 inches or greater in
				length is three fish per day with six in possession; after taking a bag limit
				of three salmon 16 inches or greater in length, a person may not sport fish for
				salmon on that same day;
(4) except
				in the Alexander Creek drainage, the bag and possession limit for king salmon
				20 inches or greater in length is one per day and two in possession;
(5) in the Alexander Creek drainage, and all
				waters within a one-half mile radius of the confluence of Alexander Creek with
				the Susitna River,
(A) sport fishing for king
				salmon is closed from January 1 - December 31;
(B) repealed 6/4/2008;
(C) in flowing waters upstream of ADF&G
				regulatory markers located approximately 400 yards upstream of Trail Creek,
				only one unbaited, single-hook, artificial lure may be used;
(D) in flowing waters, rainbow/steelhead
				trout, Arctic char/Dolly Varden, and Arctic grayling may not be retained or
				possessed;
(E) repealed
				6/12/2011;
(F) repealed
				6/12/2011;
(G) repealed 6/21/2020;
(H) from May 1 - July 13, sport
				fishing is closed within a one-half mile radius of the confluence of Alexander
				Creek and the Susitna River;
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 61 - Susitna River Drainage Area › 5 AAC 61.114 - Special provisions and localized additions and exceptions to the seasons, bag, possession, and size limits, and methods and means for Unit 2 of the Susitna River Drainage Area

Current through May 31, 2024
Unless otherwise specified by an emergency order issued under
				  AS
				  16.05.060, the following are localized
				  additions and exceptions to the general seasons, bag, possession, and size
				  limits, and methods and means specified in
				  5 AAC 61.110 and 5 AAC 75 for Unit 2 of the Susitna
				  River Drainage Area:
(1) from January
				1 through July 13, Unit 2 is open to sport fishing for all finfish species,
				except for king salmon; sport fishing for king salmon is open through the third
				Monday in June, and on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday for two consecutive weeks
				starting on the Saturday following the third Monday in June;
(2) from July 14 - December 31, Unit 2 is
				open to sport fishing for all finfish species, except king salmon;
(3) in flowing waters only one unbaited,
				single-hook, artificial lure may be used from September 1 - May 31 and from
				June 1 - July 13, only unbaited, artificial lures may be used;
(4) after taking and retaining a king salmon
				20 inches or greater in length, a person may not sport fish for any species of
				fish in any water open to king salmon fishing during that same day;
(5) in the Birch Creek drainage,
(A) the waters upstream from an ADF&G
				regulatory marker located one-quarter mile upstream from its mouth are open to
				sport fishing, except for salmon;
(B) in flowing waters upstream from an
				ADF&G regulatory marker located one-quarter mile upstream from its mouth,
				only one unbaited, single-hook, artificial lure may be used;
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 61 - Susitna River Drainage Area › 5 AAC 61.116 - Special provisions and localized additions and exceptions to the seasons, bag, possession, and size limits, and methods and means for Unit 3 of the Susitna River Drainage Area

Current through May 31, 2024
Unless otherwise specified by an emergency order issued under
				  AS
				  16.05.060, the following are localized
				  additions and exceptions to the general seasons, bag, possession, and size
				  limits and methods and means in
				  5 AAC 61.110 and 5 AAC 75 for Unit 3 of the Susitna
				  River Drainage Area:
(1) in flowing
				waters only one unbaited, single-hook, artificial lure may be used;
(2) from May 15 - July 13, in waters open to
				sport fishing for king salmon, sport fishing is not allowed from 11:00 p.m. to
				6:00 a.m.;
(3) from June 15 - April
				14, in flowing waters upstream to and including Devils Canyon, the bag and
				possession for rainbow/steelhead trout is one fish per day 20 inches or greater
				in length;
(4) from April 15 - June
				14, in flowing waters rainbow/steelhead trout may not be retained;
				rainbow/steelhead trout caught must be released immediately and returned to the
				water unharmed;
(5) in Clarence
				Lake, the Arctic grayling bag and possession limit is two fish;
(6) the bag and possession limit for salmon,
				other than king salmon, is three fish.
Authority:
AS
					 16.05.060
AS
					 16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 61 - Susitna River Drainage Area › 5 AAC 61.118 - Special provisions and localized additions and exceptions to the seasons, bag, possession, and size limits, and methods and means for Unit 4 of the Susitna River Drainage Area

Current through May 31, 2024
Unless otherwise specified by an emergency order issued under
				  AS
				  16.05.060, the following are localized
				  additions and exceptions to the general seasons, bag, possession, and size
				  limits, and methods and means specified in
				  5 AAC 61.110 for Unit 4 of the Susitna River Drainage
				  Area:
(1) from September 1 - July 13,
				in all flowing waters, only unbaited, artificial lures may be used;
(2) from May 15 - July 13, in waters open to
				sport fishing for king salmon, fishing is not allowed from 11:00 p.m. to 6:00
				a.m.;
(3) the bag and possession
				limit for salmon, other than king salmon, is three fish per day with six in
				possession;
(4) the bag and
				possession limit for king salmon 20 inches or greater in length is one per day
				and two in possession; once a person has retained a king salmon 20 inches or
				greater in length, a person may not sport fish for king salmon within a
				one-mile radius of the confluence of the Talchulitna River and the Susitna
				River for the remainder of that day;
(5) in the Canyon Creek drainage,
(A) in the flowing waters, only one unbaited,
				single-hook, artificial lure may be used;
(B) rainbow/steelhead trout may not be
				retained or possessed; rainbow/steelhead trout caught must be released
				immediately and returned to the water unharmed;
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 61 - Susitna River Drainage Area › 5 AAC 61.120 - Special provisions and localized additions and exceptions to the seasons, bag, possession, and size limits, and methods and means for Unit 5 of the Susitna River Drainage Area

Current through May 31, 2024
Unless otherwise specified by an emergency order issued
				  under AS
				  16.05.060, the following are localized
				  additions and exceptions to the general seasons, bag, possession, and size
				  limits, and methods and means specified in
				  5 AAC 61.110 and 5 AAC 75 for Unit 5 of the Susitna
				  River Drainage Area:
(1) from
				September 1 - July 13, in all flowing waters only unbaited, artificial lures
				may be used;
(2) from May 15 - July
				13, in waters open to sport fishing for king salmon, fishing is not allowed
				from 11:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m.;
(3)
				in the Clear (Chunilna) Creek drainage,
(A)
				the waters upstream of an ADF&G regulatory marker located approximately two
				miles from its mouth are closed to sport fishing for king salmon;
(B) after taking and retaining a king salmon
				20 inches or greater in length, a person may not sport fish for king salmon on
				the same day;
(C) in the Fish Creek
				drainage only one unbaited, single-hook, artificial lure may be used;
(D) in the Fish Creek drainage
				rainbow/steelhead trout may not be retained or possessed, rainbow/steelhead
				trout caught must be released immediately and returned to the water
				unharmed;
(E) the Fish Creek
				drainage upstream of an ADF&G regulatory marker located approximately
				one-quarter mile upstream of its confluence with the Talkeetna River is closed
				to sport fishing for all salmon;
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 61 - Susitna River Drainage Area › 5 AAC 61.122 - Special provisions and localized additions and exceptions to the seasons, bag, possession, and size limits, and methods and means for Unit 6 of the Susitna River Drainage Area

Current through May 31, 2024
Unless otherwise specified by an emergency order issued under
				  AS
				  16.05.060, the following are localized
				  additions and exceptions to the seasons, bag, possession, and size limits, and
				  methods and means specified in
				  5 AAC 61.110 and 5 AAC 75 for Unit 6 of the Susitna
				  River Drainage Area:
(1) from
				September 1 - July 13, in flowing waters, only unbaited, artificial lures may
				be used;
(2) all waters of Unit 6
				are closed to sport fishing for king salmon, except as described in (4) of this
				section for the East Fork of the Chulitna River;
(3) the Byers Creek drainage upstream of the
				Parks Highway is closed to sport fishing for all salmon;
(4) in the East Fork of the Chulitna River
				drainage, including all waters within a one-quarter mile radius of its
				confluence of the East Fork and West Fork and including the Middle Fork of the
				Chulitna and the first quarter mile of Honolulu Creek
(A) from January 1 - July 13, the waters are
				open to sport fishing for all finfish species, including king salmon; king
				salmon may be retained only from January 1 through the third Monday in June and
				on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday for three consecutive weeks starting on the
				Saturday following the third Monday in June; the remaining days are
				catch-and-release sport fishing only for king salmon;
(B) from January 1 - July 13, only one
				unbaited, single-hook, artificial lure may be used;
(C) from July 14 - December 31, the waters
				are open to sport fishing for all finfish species, except king
				salmon;
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 61 - Susitna River Drainage Area › 5 AAC 61.123 - Restrictions on sport fishing after taking king salmon 20 inches or greater in length in the Susitna River Drainage Area

Current through May 31, 2024
Notwithstanding any other provision in this chapter, or
				  unless modified by an emergency order issued under
				  AS
				  16.05.060, a person, after taking a king
				  salmon 20 inches or greater in length, may not fish for
(1) any species of finfish on the same day in
				the following waters open to fishing for king salmon:
(A) that portion of the Susitna River,
				including waters within a one-quarter mile radius of its tributaries'
				confluences, from its confluence with the Deshka River upstream to its
				confluence with the Talkeetna River;
(B) Birch Creek (Birch Creek Slough), only
				those waters within a one-quarter mile radius of its confluence with the
				Susitna River;
(C) Caswell Creek
				from its mouth upstream to the Parks Highway and all waters within a
				one-quarter mile radius of its confluence with the Susitna River;
(D) East Fork Chulitna River drainage,
				including all waters within a one-quarter mile radius of its confluence with
				the West Fork Chulitna River and the Chulitna River;
(E) Goose Creek from its mouth upstream to
				the Parks Highway and all waters within a one-quarter mile radius of its
				confluence with the Susitna River;
(F) Kashwitna River drainage from its mouth
				upstream to the Alaska Railroad Bridge and all waters with a one-quarter mile
				radius of its confluence with the Susitna River;
(G) Little Willow Creek from its mouth
				upstream to the Parks Highway and all waters within a one-quarter mile radius
				of its confluence with the Susitna River;
(H) Montana Creek from its mouth upstream to
				an ADF&G regulatory marker located approximately one-half mile upstream
				from the Parks Highway Bridge and all waters within a one-quarter mile radius
				of its confluence with the Susitna River;
(I) Sheep Creek from its mouth upstream to
				the Parks Highway and all waters within a one-quarter mile radius of its
				confluence with the Susitna River;
(J) Sunshine Creek, only those waters within
				a one-quarter mile radius of its confluence with the Susitna River;
(K) Willow Creek from its mouth upstream to
				the Parks Highway Bridge and all waters within a one-quarter mile radius of its
				confluence with the Susitna River;
(L) any waters open to sport fishing for king
				salmon in the Knik Arm Drainages Area under 5 AAC 60 and the West Cook Inlet
				Area under 5 AAC 62;
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 61 - Susitna River Drainage Area › 5 AAC 61.124 - Harvest record required; annual limits for the Susitna River Drainage Area (Repealed)

Current through May 31, 2024
In Register 209, April 2014, the provisions of
					 5 AAC 61.124 were repealed because the substance of the
					 harvest record provisions appears in
					 5 AAC 75.006, which applies on a statewide basis, and
					 the annual limit provisions for king salmon and rainbow trout/steelhead appear
					 in 5 AAC 61.110.
Authority:
AS
					 16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 61 - Susitna River Drainage Area › 5 AAC 61.140 - Freshwater guiding requirements for the Susitna River Drainage Area

Current through May 31, 2024
In the Susitna River Drainage Area, a person who is a sport
				  fishing guide, may not sport fish in waters open to sport fishing for king
				  salmon 20 inches or greater in length while a client is present or within the
				  guide's control or responsibility, except when guiding a client with a
				  disability. For the purposes of this section, "disability" has the meaning
				  given in 42 U.S.C.
				  12102(2)(A) and (C), as
				  amended as of February 8, 1994.
Authority:
AS
					 16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 61 - Susitna River Drainage Area › 5 AAC 61.165 - Susitna River and Little Susitna River King Salmon Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The purpose of this management plan is to
				describe actions that may be taken by the department to better inform
				stakeholders of management actions on northern Cook Inlet king salmon sport
				fisheries. The department shall manage the Susitna River drainage king salmon
				stocks to achieve king salmon escapement goals by the management measures
				outlined in this plan.
(b) The
				department shall manage for an optimal escapement goal of 16,000 - 22,000 king
				salmon on the Yentna River stock.
(c) The department will release the annual
				outlook and management strategy, including any preseason emergency orders, for
				Susitna River king salmon stocks including the Deshka, Yentna, Talkeetna, and
				Eastside and Little Susitna River stocks, to the extent practical, by January
				1, during non-board cycle years for Upper Cook Inlet Finfish.
(d) If king salmon escapement goals have been
				achieved for a stock in the previous one to three years, and harvest as
				described in
				5 AAC 61.110 is not projected to drop escapement below
				the escapement goal, sport fisheries shall be open under general
				regulation.
(e) If king salmon
				escapement is projected to be near the lower bound of the escapement goal for
				any salmon stock specified in this section, or if harvest managed under
				5 AAC 61.110 is expected to drop the department's
				projection of escapement below the lower bound of the goal, king salmon sport
				fisheries may open under catch-and-release or other restrictions to reduce
				harvest yet continue to provide sport fishing opportunity, if associated sport
				mortality is not expected to reduce escapement below the lower bound of the
				escapement goal.
(f) If the
				commissioner determines additional conservation measures are necessary to
				achieve the escapement goals, the commissioner may, by emergency order, enact
				the following management measures:
(1) Deshka
				River: annual limit reduction; bait prohibition; harvest restricted to
				Saturdays - Mondays implementing catch-and-release with a single hook only on
				other days;
(2) Yentna River
				drainage: annual limit reduction; harvest restricted to Fridays - Mondays
				implementing catch-and-release with a single hook only on other days;
(3) Talkeetna River drainage: annual limit
				reduction; harvest restricted to Saturdays - Mondays implementing
				catch-and-release with a single hook only on other days;
(4) Eastside Susitna River drainages: annual
				limit reduction; close one or more weekends of fishing;
(5) Little Susitna River: annual limit
				reduction; harvest restricted to Saturdays - Mondays, or Fridays-Mondays
				implementing catch-and-release with a single hook only on other days.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 61 - Susitna River Drainage Area › 5 AAC 61.175 - Invasive Northern Pike Management Plan for the Susitna River Drainage Area

Current through May 31, 2024
The department shall manage invasive northern pike in the
				  waters of the Susitna Drainage Area to minimize the impacts on indigenous fish
				  stocks and recreational fisheries. Waters containing invasive northern pike
				  will be managed so that there is a reasonable expectation of high catch rates
				  and harvesting daily bag limits. Notwithstanding any other provision of this
				  chapter, the commissioner may, by emergency order, change bag and possession
				  limits and alter method and means for northern pike to aid in control of
				  invasive northern pike.
Authority:
AS
					 16.05.060
AS
					 16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 61 - Susitna River Drainage Area › 5 AAC 61.180 - Riparian Habitat Fishery Management Plan for the Susitna River Drainage Area

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The Board of Fisheries (board) finds that
				freshwater fisheries in upper Cook Inlet, including the Susitna River Drainage
				Area, subject to access limitations of federal, state, and local landowners,
				are a recognized use of the fishery resources of upper Cook Inlet. The board
				also finds that, in some situations, freshwater fisheries are negatively
				impacting riparian habitats of upper Cook Inlet.
(b) The board recognizes the importance of
				maintaining the structural and functional integrity of upper Cook Inlet
				riparian habitats. Given this, the board will consider, as part of its
				deliberations, avoidable impacts to upper Cook Inlet riparian habitats related
				to sport fishing.
(c) If the
				commissioner determines that freshwater fisheries are likely to result in
				riparian habitat loss that could negatively affect the fishery resources of
				upper Cook Inlet, the commissioner may close, by emergency order, those
				riparian areas to fishing. This authority extends only to riparian areas in
				which there is a state, federal, or municipal property interest. The
				commissioner may reopen, by emergency order, those riparian areas to fishing if
				the commissioner determines that such openings will not compromise the
				integrity of the riparian habitats the emergency order is designed to protect.
				During seasons in areas opened by emergency order, fishing is only open at
				times selected by the commissioner at the commissioner's discretion, and
				fishing is only open from the following, selected at the commissioner's
				discretion:
(1) boats;
(2) boardwalks or similar
				structures;
(3) docks;
(4) gravel bars;
(5) natural formations identified by the
				commissioner;
(6) other areas
				identified by the commissioner as areas where use for fishing will not
				compromise the integrity of the habitat the closure is designed to
				protect.