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Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 77 - Personal Use Fishery › Article 2 - Arctic-Kotzebue Area › 5 AAC 77.070 - Personal use salmon fishery (Deleted)

Current through May 31, 2024
As of Register 127, October 1993, the regulations
						attorney deleted the text of
						5 AAC 77.070 as being obsolete. Under a self-repealer
						contained in that section, the section was repealed
						4/15/90.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 77 - Personal Use Fishery › Article 3 - Norton Sound-Port Clarence Area › 5 AAC 77.120 - Personal use salmon fishery (Deleted)

Current through May 31, 2024
As of Register 127, October 1993, the regulations
						attorney deleted the text of
						5 AAC 77.120 as being obsolete. Under a self-repealer
						contained in that section, the section was repealed
						4/15/90.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 77 - Personal Use Fishery › Article 4 - Yukon Area › 5 AAC 77.155 - Description of Subdistrict 6-C

Current through May 31, 2024
Subdistrict 6-C is as described in
					 5 AAC 05.200(f).
Authority:
AS
						16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 77 - Personal Use Fishery › Article 4 - Yukon Area › 5 AAC 77.170 - Personal use salmon fishery (Deleted)

Current through May 31, 2024
As of Register 127, October 1993, the regulations
						attorney deleted the text of
						5 AAC 77.170 as being obsolete. Under a self-repealer
						contained in that section, the section was repealed
						4/15/90.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 77 - Personal Use Fishery › Article 4 - Yukon Area › 5 AAC 77.171 - Lawful gear for personal use finfish fishing

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) In Subdistrict
				  6-C, finfish may be taken for personal use only by set gillnets and fish wheels
				  as follows:
(1) a person may not operate more
				  than one type of gear at the same time for commercial, personal use, and
				  subsistence purposes;
(2) the
				  aggregate length of a set gillnet may not exceed 150 fathoms;
(3) a person may not set or operate personal
				  use fishing gear within 200 feet of other operating commercial, personal use,
				  or subsistence fishing gear;
(4) a
				  gillnet or fish wheel may not obstruct more than one-half the width of any fish
				  stream and any channel or side channel of a fish stream;
(5) a household may not operate more than one
				  fish wheel;
(6) after August 15, a
				  person may not take salmon with a gillnet that has a mesh size greater than six
				  inches;
(7) unless a person is
				  fishing under the ice, gillnets in operation sunk below the surface must have a
				  keg, buoy, or cluster of floats visible on the surface of the water at each end
				  of the submerged net, and for submerged gillnets over 60 feet in length, a
				  third keg, buoy, or cluster of floats must be attached to the middle of the
				  net.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 77 - Personal Use Fishery › Article 4 - Yukon Area › 5 AAC 77.172 - Personal use salmon fishing permits and reports

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) In Subdistrict
				  6-C, an annual permit is required to take salmon for personal use. Only one
				  permit per household is allowed annually. The annual possession limit per
				  permit holder is 10 king salmon and 75 chum salmon for periods through August
				  15, and 75 chum and coho combined for periods after August 15.
(b) Personal use salmon harvest limits in
				  Subdistrict 6-C are 750 king salmon and 5,000 chum salmon taken through August
				  15, and 5,200 chum salmon and coho salmon combined taken after August 15. When
				  either the king or chum salmon harvest limit for the period before August 16
				  has been taken, the personal use salmon fishing season in Subdistrict 6-C will
				  close. A later season will open after August 15 to allow the taking of the
				  harvest limit for the period after August 15. If the chum salmon harvest limit
				  has not been obtained through August 15, the remaining harvest will not be
				  added to the chum salmon harvest level for the period after August
				  15.
Authority:
AS
						16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 77 - Personal Use Fishery › Article 4 - Yukon Area › 5 AAC 77.173 - Personal use salmon fishing seasons and periods

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Unless altered
				  by emergency order, personal use salmon fishing periods are from 6:00 p.m.
				  Friday until 12:00 noon Sunday, and from 6:00 p.m. Monday until 12:00 noon
				  Wednesday.
(b) Salmon fishing
				  seasons or periods may be altered by emergency order for conservation purposes
				  or to prevent harvest limits from being exceeded.
(c) In Subdistrict 6-C, salmon may be taken
				  only by set gillnet or fish wheel. A person may not operate a set gillnet with
				  a mesh size greater than six inches after a date specified by emergency order
				  issued at some time between July 5 and July 25.
Authority:
AS
						16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 77 - Personal Use Fishery › Article 4 - Yukon Area › 5 AAC 77.174 - Waters closed to personal use fishing

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Repealed
				  5/22/2016.
(b) The following
				  waters are closed to personal use fishing:
(1) the Delta Clearwater River (Clearwater Creek at 64° 06' N.
				  lat., 145° 34' W. long.), Richardson Clearwater Creek (Clear Creek at
				  64° 14' N. lat., 146° 16' W. long.), Goodpaster River, Chena River,
				  Little Chena River, Little Salcha River, Blue Creek, Shaw Creek, Bear Creek,
				  McDonald Creek, and Moose Creek, within 500 feet of their mouths;
(2) the Salcha River upstream of a line
				  between ADF&G regulatory markers at its mouth;
(3) Bolio, Birch, Lost, Harding, Craig,
				  Fielding, Quartz, and Little Harding lakes;
(4) Piledriver and Badger (Chena) sloughs;
(5) repealed 6/17/98;
(6) the Delta River.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 77 - Personal Use Fishery › Article 4 - Yukon Area › 5 AAC 77.190 - Personal use whitefish and sucker fishery

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Whitefish and
				  suckers may be taken for personal use only in the Fairbanks Nonsubsistence Area
				  described in
				  5 AAC 99.015(a) (4) under the authority
				  of a permit issued under
				  5 AAC 77.015.
(b) The department shall adhere to the
				  following when issuing personal use whitefish and sucker permits:
(1) the fishing effort may be permitted only
				  in places and during times when resource abundance will allow a harvest without
				  jeopardizing sustained yield and in a manner that will provide for an orderly
				  fishery;
(2) permits may be issued
				  for spears and set gillnet, beach seine, dip net, fyke net, and fish wheel
				  gear;
(3) finfish other than
				  whitefish and suckers may not be retained under a permit issued under this
				  section.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 77 - Personal Use Fishery › Article 5 - Kuskokwim Area › 5 AAC 77.220 - Personal use salmon fishery (Deleted)

Current through May 31, 2024
As of Register 127, October 1993, the regulations
						attorney deleted the text of
						5 AAC 77.220 as being obsolete. Under a self-repealer
						contained in that section, the section was repealed
						4/15/90.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 77 - Personal Use Fishery › Article 6 - Bristol Bay Area › 5 AAC 77.250 - Description of Bristol Bay Area

Current through May 31, 2024
The Bristol Bay Area consists of all waters of Bristol Bay
					 enclosed by a line from the westernmost tip of Cape Newenham to the westernmost
					 tip of Cape Menshikof.
Authority:
AS
						16.05.251(a)
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 77 - Personal Use Fishery › Article 6 - Bristol Bay Area › 5 AAC 77.285 - Naknek River Personal Use Sockeye Salmon Fishery Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The
				  department shall allow the taking of salmon by dip nets and gillnets in the
				  Naknek River from its terminus upstream to ADF&G regulatory markers located
				  near Savonski from when the department has estimated that 900,000 sockeye
				  salmon are in the river through July 25.
(b) During the open season, salmon may be
				  taken by dip nets seven days per week and by gillnets during open subsistence
				  salmon fishing periods for the Naknek River.
(c) Salmon may be taken only under the
				  authority of a permit issued through the department's King Salmon
				  office.
(d) The annual limit is 75
				  salmon. This limit is not in addition to the limits in
				  5 AAC 67.020 and
				  5 AAC 67.022.
(e) No set gillnet may exceed 10 fathoms in
				  length and five and three-eighths inches in mesh size. No set gillnet may be
				  set or operated within 300 feet of another set gillnet.
The department's King Salmon office is located at #1 Fish
						and Game Road, King Salmon, Alaska.
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 77 - Personal Use Fishery › Article 10 - Kodiak Area › 5 AAC 77.450 - Description of area

Current through May 31, 2024
The Kodiak Area includes all waters of Alaska south of a
					 line extending east from Cape Douglas (58º 51.10' N. lat.), west 150º
					 W. long., north of 55º 30.00' N. lat.; and east of the longitude of the
					 southern entrance of Imuya Bay near Kilokak Rocks (156º 20.22' W.
					 long.).
Authority:
AS
						16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 77 - Personal Use Fishery › Article 10 - Kodiak Area › 5 AAC 77.468 - Personal use salmon fishery

Current through May 31, 2024
In the personal use taking of salmon in the Kodiak
					 Area,
(1) salmon may be taken only in
				  the waters of Settler Cove west of 152º 50.80' W. long., including all
				  fresh water below the falls of Crescent Creek;
(2) there is no closed season;
(3) there is no bag or possession limit;
				  and
(4) salmon may be taken only by
				  dip net.
Authority:
AS
						16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 77 - Personal Use Fishery › Article 11 - Cook Inlet Area › 5 AAC 77.500 - Description of Cook Inlet Area

Current through May 31, 2024
The Cook Inlet Area consists of all waters of Alaska
					 enclosed by a line extending east from Cape Douglas (58º 51.10' N. lat.)
					 and a line extending south from Cape Fairfield (148º 50.25' W.
					 long.).
Authority:
AS
						16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 77 - Personal Use Fishery › Article 11 - Cook Inlet Area › 5 AAC 77.505 - Description of districts and subdistricts

Current through May 31, 2024
Districts and subdistricts are described in
					 5 AAC 21.200.
Authority:
AS
						16.05.251(a)
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 77 - Personal Use Fishery › Article 11 - Cook Inlet Area › 5 AAC 77.507 - Personal use permit for shellfish

Current through May 31, 2024
A person must obtain a personal use shellfish permit
					 described in
					 5 AAC 77.015, from the department before harvesting
					 shellfish with pots in the Cook Inlet Area. Upon taking shellfish and before
					 concealing the shellfish from plain view or removing the shellfish from the
					 fishing site, the person must enter the catch information requested on the
					 personal use permit.
Authority:
AS
						16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 77 - Personal Use Fishery › Article 11 - Cook Inlet Area › 5 AAC 77.509 - Lawful gear and gear specifications for shellfish

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Notwithstanding
				  5 AAC 77.010(i), and except as provided
				  in 5 AAC 77.511, no more than two pots
				  per person, regardless of type, with a maximum of two pots per vessel,
				  regardless of type, may be used to take shellfish at any time.
(b) Each pot, other than shrimp pots, used to
				  take shellfish in the Cook Inlet Area must have a minimum of two escape rings
				  that are at least four and three-eighths inches in inside diameter.
(c) Repealed 8/27/2016.
(d) A pot used to take shellfish may not have
				  any portion of the line attaching the pot to a buoy or buoys floating on the
				  surface of the water at any time, except for that portion of the line
				  connecting the main buoy to any auxiliary buoy or buoys.
Authority:
AS
						16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 77 - Personal Use Fishery › Article 11 - Cook Inlet Area › 5 AAC 77.510 - Fishing seasons and periods (Repealed)

Current through May 31, 2024
An amendment to
						5 AAC 77.510(f) was adopted by the
						Board of Fisheries on May 9, 1986, and was filed by the lieutenant governor on
						June 12, 1986, to take effect July 12, 1986. That amendment however, never took
						effect due to the emergency repeal of
						5 AAC 77.510 effective
						7/1/86.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 77 - Personal Use Fishery › Article 11 - Cook Inlet Area › 5 AAC 77.511 - Personal use shrimp fishery

Current through May 31, 2024
In the personal use taking of shrimp,
(1) shrimp may be taken only from April 15
				  through September 15 in the waters of Cook Inlet between the longitude of Gore
				  Point and the longitude of Cape Fairfield, including the waters of Resurrection
				  Bay;
(2) a person may only take
				  shrimp under this section under a permit issued by the department under
				  5 AAC 77.015;
(3) notwithstanding
				  5 AAC 77.010(i) and
				  5 AAC 77.509(a), no more than five pots
				  per person, and no more than five pots per vessel, may be used to take
				  shrimp;
(4) all shrimp pots must
				  have tunnel eye openings that individually are not larger than 15 inches in
				  perimeter and at least two adjacent vertical sides, or near-vertical sides,
				  excluding tunnels, completely composed of uncovered net webbing or rigid mesh;
				  pots that do not have a definable side, including round pots, must have net
				  webbing or rigid mesh panels covering a minimum of 50 percent of the vertical,
				  or near-vertical, surface area of the pot; the net webbing or rigid mesh on all
				  pots must be large enough to allow the unaided passage of a maximum 12-inch
				  long, seven-eighths inch diameter, round wooden peg without deforming the
				  opening, except for the selvage.
Authority:
AS
						16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 77 - Personal Use Fishery › Article 11 - Cook Inlet Area › 5 AAC 77.518 - Personal use clam fishery

Current through May 31, 2024
In the personal use taking of clams
(1) there is no closed season;
(2) there are no bag, possession, or size
				  limits for clams, except that
(A) from the
				  mouth of the Kenai River to the southernmost tip of the Homer Spit, the bag
				  limit for razor clams is the first 60 clams taken or possessed and the
				  possession limit is 120 clams; in all other waters in the Cook Inlet Area, the
				  bag and possession limit for razor clams is the first 10 gallons taken or
				  possessed;
(B) for littleneck clams
				  and butter clams, there is no open season; they may not be retained or
				  possessed;
(C) repealed
				  7/13/2012;
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 77 - Personal Use Fishery › Article 11 - Cook Inlet Area › 5 AAC 77.519 - East Cook Inlet Razor Clam Personal Use Fishery Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The purpose of
				  this plan is to direct the department in the management of the personal use
				  razor clam fisheries in east Cook Inlet from the mouth of the Kenai River to
				  the southernmost tip of the Homer Spit and to establish abundance thresholds
				  for adult clams greater than or equal to 80 mm and stock productivity indices
				  for the fisheries in the Clam Gulch and Ninilchik Areas.
(b) In the Clam Gulch Area from the mouth of
				  the Kenai River south to the latitude of 60° 50.54' N. lat., and in the
				  Ninilchik Area from the southernmost tip of the Homer Spit north to the
				  latitude of 60° 50.54' N. lat.,
(1) if
				  the estimated adult clam abundance is greater than or equal to the average 1989
				  - 2012 abundance, the adult clam recruitment replaces or exceeds harvest and
				  natural mortality, and the size composition index of the harvest is equal to
				  the 1989 - 2012 average, then the fishery will be managed as provided in
				  5 AAC 58.022(a)(14)(A) and
				  5 AAC 77.518(2)(A); the combined harvest
				  rate of the sport and personal use fisheries are not expected to exceed 20
				  percent of the adult clam abundance;
(2) if the estimated adult clam abundance is greater than or equal
				  to 50 percent of the average 1989 - 2012 abundance but the population does not
				  meet the criteria outlined in (b)(1) of this section, then razor clams may be
				  taken from May 1 through September 30 and the bag and possession limits are the
				  first 30 clams taken or possessed; the combined harvest rate of the sport and
				  personal use fisheries is not expected to exceed 10 percent of the adult clam
				  abundance.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 77 - Personal Use Fishery › Article 11 - Cook Inlet Area › 5 AAC 77.520 - Areas closed to personal use fishing for shellfish

Current through May 31, 2024
The following areas are closed to the personal use taking
					 of all shellfish:
(1) the intertidal
				  beach along Shipwreck Cove in China Poot Bay enclosed by a line from 59º
				  34.34' N. lat., 151º 18.11' W. long., to 59º 34.26' N.lat., 151º
				  17.96' W. long., to 59º 34.20' N. lat., 151º 17.94' W. long., to
				  59º 34.19' N. lat., 151º 17.81' W. long., to 59º 34.13' N. lat.
				  to 151º 17.75' W. long., to 59º 34.13' N. lat., 151º 17.77' W.
				  long., to 59º 34.19' N. lat., 151º 17.96' W. long., to 59º
				  34.26'N. lat., 151º 17.98' W. long., to 59º 34.33' N. lat., 151º
				  18.14' W. long., as marked by ADF&G regulatory markers located in the upper
				  intertidal area;
(2) the intertidal
				  beach by Otter Rock in Peterson Bay enclosed by a line from 59º 34.78' N.
				  lat., 151º 17.84' W. long., to 59º 34.70' N. lat., 151º 17.68'
				  W. long., to 59º 34.79' N. lat,, 151º 17.68' W. long., as marked by
				  ADF&G regulatory markers located in the upper intertidal area.
Authority:
AS
						16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 77 - Personal Use Fishery › Article 11 - Cook Inlet Area › 5 AAC 77.525 - Personal use salmon fishery

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Only one
				  personal use salmon fishing permit may be issued to each household per
				  year.
(b) Repealed
				  7/21/91.
(c) In the personal use
				  taking of salmon, unless otherwise specified in
				  5 AAC 77.500 -
				  5 AAC 77.548, the total annual limit for each personal
				  use salmon fishing permit is 25 salmon for the head of a household and 10
				  salmon for each dependent of the permit holder.
(d) Notwithstanding any provision in 5 AAC 01
				  - 77, in the Cook Inlet Area, a person may possess sport-caught and
				  personal-use caught salmon on the same day.
Authority:
AS
						16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 77 - Personal Use Fishery › Article 11 - Cook Inlet Area › 5 AAC 77.526 - Skwentna River personal use salmon fishery (Repealed)

Current through May 31, 2024
As of Register 146, July 1998, the substance of
						5 AAC 77.526 appears in
						5 AAC 01.593.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 77 - Personal Use Fishery › Article 11 - Cook Inlet Area › 5 AAC 77.527 - Personal use smelt fishery

Current through May 31, 2024
In the personal use taking of smelt
(1) there are no bag or possession
				  limits;
(2) smelt may be taken
(A) in salt water from April 1 through May
				  31;
(B) in fresh water from April 1
				  through June 15;
(C) with dip nets;
				  and
(D) with a drift gillnet only
				  from April through June 15, as follows:
(i) a
				  drift gillnet may be used only in the Kenai River downstream of an ADF&G
				  regulatory marker at Cunningham Park;
(ii) a drift gillnet may not be more than 20
				  feet in length, four feet in depth, and one and one-half inches in mesh size;
				  and
(iii) a drift gillnet must be
				  attended by the person operating the gillnet at all times that the net is
				  fishing;
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 77 - Personal Use Fishery › Article 11 - Cook Inlet Area › 5 AAC 77.531 - Personal use herring fishery

Current through May 31, 2024
In the personal use taking of herring
(1) there are no bag or possession
				  limits;
(2) herring may be taken
(A) in the Northern and Central Districts
				  from April 1 through May 31;
(B) in
				  the Southern, Kamishak Bay, Barren Island, Outer, and Eastern Districts from
				  January 1 through December 31; and
(C) only with the following gear:
(i) gillnets or dip nets may be
				  used;
(ii) gillnets may not be used
				  in Turnagain Arm east of a line from Point Possession to Point
				  Campbell;
(iii) no gillnet may
				  exceed 20 feet in length and two inches in mesh size, except in the Southern
				  District no gillnet may exceed 50 feet in length and two inches in mesh
				  size;
(iv) cast nets may be used
				  only in the Southern, Kamishak Bay, Barren Islands, Outer, and Eastern
				  Districts;
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 77 - Personal Use Fishery › Article 11 - Cook Inlet Area › 5 AAC 77.532 - Personal use aquatic plant fishery

Current through May 31, 2024
Within the Anchorage-Matsu-Kenai Nonsubsistence Area
					 defined in 5 AAC 99.015(3),
					 the harvest of aquatic plants is closed, except that from January 1 through
					 April 30 and September 1 through December 31, aquatic plants that have been
					 naturally dislodged from the substrate and are located at or above the daily
					 high tide line may be harvested by hand. The daily harvest limit is 10 gallons
					 per person. No permit is required.
Authority:
AS
						16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 77 - Personal Use Fishery › Article 11 - Cook Inlet Area › 5 AAC 77.540 - Upper Cook Inlet Personal Use Salmon Fishery Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Salmon may be
				  taken for personal use under this section only under a personal use permit
				  issued under
				  5 AAC 77.015 and
				  5 AAC 77.525; in addition to the requirements under
				  5 AAC 77.015, a person
(1) shall, before a permit may be issued,
				  show the person's resident sport fish license, or proof, satisfactory to the
				  department, that the person is exempt from licensing under
				  AS
				  16.05.400; the person's sport fish license
				  number shall be recorded on the permit;
(2) shall record all fish harvested on the
				  permit immediately upon harvesting the fish; for the purpose of this paragraph,
				  "immediately" means before concealing the salmon from plain view or
				  transporting the salmon from the
(A)
				  shoreline or streambank adjacent to waters open to personal use fishing where
				  the salmon were removed from the water when fishing from shore; or
(B) waters open to personal use fishing when
				  fishing from a boat;
(3)
				  shall return the permit to the department by the date specified on the
				  permit.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 77 - Personal Use Fishery › Article 11 - Cook Inlet Area › 5 AAC 77.545 - Kachemak Bay Personal Use Dip Net Fishery Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) In China Foot
				  Creek, upstream from ADF&G regulatory markers, sockeye salmon may be taken
				  by dip net from June 15 through August 15, with a bag and possession limit of
				  six fish. King, pink, chum, and coho salmon may not be retained or possessed.
				  All king, pink, chum, and coho salmon caught must be released immediately and
				  returned to the water unharmed.
(b)
				  A person may not possess salmon taken under this section unless both tips
				  (lobes) of the tail fin have been completely removed from the salmon before the
				  person conceals the salmon from plain view or transports the salmon from the
(1) shoreline or stream bank adjacent to
				  waters open to personal use fishing where the salmon were removed from the
				  water when fishing from shore; or
(2) waters open to personal use fishing when
				  fishing from a boat.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 77 - Personal Use Fishery › Article 11 - Cook Inlet Area › 5 AAC 77.546 - Southern District Personal Use Coho Salmon Fishery Management Plan (Repealed)

Current through May 31, 2024
5 AAC 77.546 was
						repealed by emergency regulation, effective May 22, 1991. On May 30, 1991, the
						Superior Court found the repeal invalid as an emergency regulation. Therefore,
						the repeal was not published in Register 118 (July 1991). The repeal
						subsequently was filed as a "regular"
						regulation.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 77 - Personal Use Fishery › Article 11 - Cook Inlet Area › 5 AAC 77.547 - Central District Personal Use Sockeye Salmon Management Plan (Repealed)

Current through May 31, 2024
As of Register 138, July 1996, the substance of
						5 AAC 77.547 appears in
						5 AAC 77.540.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 77 - Personal Use Fishery › Article 11 - Cook Inlet Area › 5 AAC 77.549 - Personal Use Coho Salmon Fishery Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) In the Southern
				  District, only in a year in which a subsistence fishery is not conducted in the
				  same area, salmon may be taken for personal use under the plan set out in this
				  section beginning at 6:00 a.m. on the first Monday or Thursday following August
				  15, until the last Wednesday or Saturday before September 16 and only from 6:00
				  a.m. Monday until 6:00 a.m. Wednesday and from 6:00 a.m. Thursday until 6:00
				  a.m. Saturday. The commissioner shall close this fishery by emergency order
				  when a guideline harvest range of 1, 000 - 2, 000 coho salmon have been taken.
				  Coho salmon taken under
				  5 AAC 01.560(b) (8)(B) will be counted
				  toward the guideline harvest range established under this subsection.
(b) Salmon may not be taken in the following
				  waters:
(1) between the terminus of
				  Troublesome Creek and the terminus of the Anchor River;
(2) from the north entrance to the Homer
				  Small Boat harbor northwest along the Homer Spit to a department marker located
				  approximately 200 yards northwest of the entrance to the enhancement lagoon on
				  the Homer Spit;
(3) those waters
				  described in
				  5 AAC 21.350(d)(l)-(3), (h), and
				  (i)
(4) west of a line from an
				  ADF&G regulatory marker at "Green Timbers" at 59º 37.67' N. lat.,
				  151º 28.38' W. long. on the Homer Spit to an ADF&G regulatory marker
				  located approximately 300 yards east of the Homer airport access road at
				  59º 38.35' N. lat., 151º 28.71' W. long.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 77 - Personal Use Fishery › Article 12 - Prince William Sound Area › 5 AAC 77.550 - Description of the Prince William Sound Area

Current through May 31, 2024
The Prince William Sound Area includes all waters of Alaska
					 between the longitude of Cape Fairfield and the longitude of Cape
					 Suckling.
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Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 77 - Personal Use Fishery › Article 12 - Prince William Sound Area › 5 AAC 77.570 - Waters closed to personal use fishing

Current through May 31, 2024
The waters of the Prince William Sound Area are closed to
					 the personal use taking of finfish, except that salmon may be taken in the
					 Chitina Subdistrict, as described in
					 5 AAC 77.591.
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Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 77 - Personal Use Fishery › Article 12 - Prince William Sound Area › 5 AAC 77.585 - Marking of salmon taken for personal use (Repealed)

Current through May 31, 2024
As of Register 146, July 1998, the substance of
						5 AAC 77.585 appears in
						5 AAC 77.010(f).
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 77 - Personal Use Fishery › Article 13 - Yakutat Area › 5 AAC 77.600 - Description of Yakutat Area

Current through May 31, 2024
The Yakutat Area includes all waters of Alaska between the
					 longitude of Cape Suckling (144º W. long.) and a line projected southwest
					 from the westernmost tip of Cape Fairweather.
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Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 77 - Personal Use Fishery › Article 13 - Yakutat Area › 5 AAC 77.605 - Fishing districts

Current through May 31, 2024
Districts are described in
					 5 AAC 30.200.
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Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 77 - Personal Use Fishery › Article 13 - Yakutat Area › 5 AAC 77.610 - Personal use shrimp fishery

Current through May 31, 2024
In the personal use shrimp fishery
(1) there is no closed season;
(2) there is no daily possession limit;
				  and
(3) a pot used to take shrimp
				  under this chapter must have
(A) no more than
				  four tunnel eye openings; no tunnel eye opening may exceed 15 inches in
				  perimeter;
(B) a bottom perimeter
				  of no more than 153 inches; and
(C)
				  a volume of no more than 25 cubic feet.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 77 - Personal Use Fishery › Article 13 - Yakutat Area › 5 AAC 77.614 - Personal use king crab fishery

Current through May 31, 2024
In the personal use taking of king crab
(1) red and blue king crab may be taken only
				  from July 1 through March 31;
(2)
				  the daily bag and possession limit is two male king crab; only male king crab
				  seven inches or greater in width of shell may be taken or possessed; male king
				  crab less than the minimum legal; size and female king crab that have been
				  taken must be immediately returned to the water unharmed;
(3) an operator of a commercially licensed
				  and registered king crab fishing vessel shall obtain a permit from the
				  department before taking king crab for personal use purposes in waters of
				  Yakutat Bay enclosed by a line from the westernmost tip of Ocean Cape to the
				  easternmost tip of Point Manby during the open commercial king crab fishing
				  season; the department may set out requirements in the permit for the
				  conservation of the king crab resource and to ensure compliance with other
				  applicable fishing laws;
(4) a pot
				  used to take king crab under this section must have at least two escape rings
				  on opposing vertical or sloping sides of the pot that each are not less than
				  six and one-quarter inches inside diameter;
(5) no more than 10 ring nets per person,
				  with a maximum of 20 ring nets per vessel, may be used to take king
				  crab;
(6) a person may not utilize
				  a live holding facility to accumulate or pool multiple bag limits of king
				  crab.
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Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 77 - Personal Use Fishery › Article 13 - Yakutat Area › 5 AAC 77.616 - Personal use Tanner crab fishery

Current through May 31, 2024
In the personal use taking of Tanner crab
(1) there is no closed season;
(2) the daily bag and possession limit is 30
				  male Tanner crab; only male Tanner crab five and one-half inches or greater in
				  width of shell may be taken or possessed; male Tanner crab less than the
				  minimum legal size and female Tanner crab that have been taken must be
				  immediately returned to the water unharmed;
(3) a pot used to take Tanner crab under this
				  section must have at least two circular escape rings on opposing vertical or
				  sloping sides of the pot that each are not less than four and three-quarter
				  inches inside diameter;
(4) no more
				  than 10 ring nets per person, with a maximum of 20 ring nets per vessel, may be
				  used to take Tanner crab;
(5) a
				  person may not utilize a live holding facility to accumulate or pool multiple
				  bag limits of Tanner crab.
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Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 77 - Personal Use Fishery › Article 13 - Yakutat Area › 5 AAC 77.617 - Personal use scallop fishery

Current through May 31, 2024
In the personal use taking of scallops
(1) there is no closed season;
(2) the daily possession limit is
(A) five rock scallops (
Hinnites
				  sp
);
(B) 50 weathervane
				  scallops (
Pecten sp
);
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 77 - Personal Use Fishery › Article 13 - Yakutat Area › 5 AAC 77.618 - Personal use clam fishery

Current through May 31, 2024
In the personal use taking of clams
(1) there is no closed season;
(2) there are no daily bag and possession
				  limits.
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Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 77 - Personal Use Fishery › Article 13 - Yakutat Area › 5 AAC 77.620 - Personal use herring fishery

Current through May 31, 2024
In the personal use taking of herring and herring
					 spawn
(1) herring may be taken at any
				  time;
(2) herring and herring spawn
				  may be taken by gear listed in
				  5 AAC 01.010;
(3) there is no annual possession limit for
				  herring or for herring spawn which is not on kelp;
(4) herring spawn on kelp may only be taken
				  under the authority of a personal use fishing permit; when issuing a personal
				  use permit for the taking of herring spawn on kelp, the department may specify
				  on the permit the times and locations for harvesting and the species of kelp
				  which may be taken; the annual possession limit for herring spawn on kelp is 32
				  pounds for an individual or 158 pounds for a household of two or more persons;
				  the department may issue an additional permit for taking herring spawn on kelp
				  above the annual possession limit if harvestable surpluses of herring spawn on
				  kelp are available;
(5) herring
				  taken under personal use regulations may not be used as bait in a commercial
				  fishery.
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Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 77 - Personal Use Fishery › Article 13 - Yakutat Area › 5 AAC 77.622 - Personal use bottomfish fishery

Current through May 31, 2024
In the personal use taking of bottomfish
(1) bottomfish may be taken at any time,
				  except lingcod may not be taken from December 1 through May 15;
(2) bottomfish may be taken for personal use
				  only by longline or hand held line; unattended gear must be marked as described
				  in 5 AAC 77.010(d);
(3) there are no daily bag or possession
				  limits;
(4) bottomfish taken under
				  personal use regulations may not be used as bait in a commercial
				  fishery.
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Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 77 - Personal Use Fishery › Article 13 - Yakutat Area › 5 AAC 77.624 - Personal use halibut fishery

Current through May 31, 2024
In the personal use taking of halibut
(1) halibut may be taken from February 1
				  through December 31;
(2) halibut
				  may be taken only by a single line which is operated by hand with not more than
				  two hooks attached to it; no person may operate more than one line and the line
				  must be marked as described in
				  5 AAC 77.010(d);
(3) the daily bag limit is two fish and the
				  possession limit is two daily bag limits;
(4) no person may possess personal use-taken
				  and sport or subsistence-taken halibut on the same day.
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Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 77 - Personal Use Fishery › Article 13 - Yakutat Area › 5 AAC 77.626 - Personal use smelt fishery

Current through May 31, 2024
Smelt may be taken for personal use at any time and there
					 are no bag or possession limits.
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Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 77 - Personal Use Fishery › Article 13 - Yakutat Area › 5 AAC 77.628 - Personal use salmon fishery

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Salmon may only
				  be taken under the authority of a personal use fishing permit.
(b) The department shall adhere to the
				  following when issuing personal use salmon fishing permits:
(1) the fishing effort must be allowed in
				  places and during times when resource abundance will allow a harvest without
				  jeopardizing the sustained yield of the stock and in a manner which provides
				  for an orderly fishery;
(2) a
				  permit is valid for the entire season in which it is issued;
(3) the department may require the permit
				  holder to report daily harvests on the catch calendar which accompanies the
				  permit.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 77 - Personal Use Fishery › Article 14 - Southeastern Alaska Area › 5 AAC 77.650 - Description of Southeastern Alaska Area

Current through May 31, 2024
The Southeastern Alaska Area consists of all waters of
					 Alaska between Cape Fairweather and Dixon Entrance.
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Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 77 - Personal Use Fishery › Article 14 - Southeastern Alaska Area › 5 AAC 77.655 - Description of districts and sections

Current through May 31, 2024
Districts and sections are as described in
					 5 AAC 33.200.
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Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 77 - Personal Use Fishery › Article 14 - Southeastern Alaska Area › 5 AAC 77.660 - Personal use shrimp fishery

Current through May 31, 2024
In the personal use taking of shrimp
(1) except as provided in (7) and (8) of this
				  section, there is no closed season and no bag and possession limits;
(2) a commercially licensed and registered
				  shrimp fishing vessel may not be used to take shrimp in Districts 6 - 8 and 10
				  from February 15 through April 30;
(3) shrimp may be taken only with pots, ring
				  nets, or trawls;
(4) unless
				  otherwise provided for in this chapter, pots operated to take shrimp may be
				  longlined; a buoy is not required for each pot, but at least one buoy on the
				  longline must be marked as required in
				  5 AAC 77.010(d);
(5) a pot used to take shrimp under this
				  chapter must have
(A) no more than four
				  tunnel eye openings; no tunnel eye opening may exceed 15 inches in
				  perimeter;
(B) a bottom perimeter
				  of no more than 153 inches; and
(C)
				  a volume of no more than 25 cubic feet;
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 77 - Personal Use Fishery › Article 14 - Southeastern Alaska Area › 5 AAC 77.662 - Personal use Dungeness crab fishery

Current through May 31, 2024
In the personal use taking of Dungeness crab
(1) there is no closed season;
(2) the daily bag and possession limit is 20
				  male Dungeness crab except that, in waters of Thorne Bay west of the longitude
				  of the southernmost tip of Thorne Head, the daily bag and possession limit is
				  five male Dungeness crab;
(3) the
				  minimum legal size for male Dungeness crab is six and one-half inches in
				  shoulder width; male Dungeness crab less than the minimum legal size and female
				  Dungeness crab that have been taken must be immediately returned to the water
				  unharmed; for the purposes of this paragraph, the shoulder width measurement of
				  Dungeness crab is the straight-line distance across the carapace immediately
				  anterior to the tenth anterolateral spine, not including the spines;
(4) live holding facilities utilized to
				  accumulate or pool multiple bag limits by an individual or individuals are not
				  allowed;
(5) a pot used to take
				  Dungeness crab under this chapter must have at least two escape rings that each
				  are not less than four and three-eighths inches, inside diameter; the rings
				  must be located on opposite sides of the pot and the upper half of the vertical
				  plane of the pot;
(6) no more than
				  five pots per person, with a maximum of 10 pots per vessel, or 10 ring nets per
				  person, with a maximum of 20 ring nets per vessel, may be used to take
				  Dungeness crab, except that in Section 11-A, as described in 5 AAC 33.200, if
				  the pot and ring net limits for red and blue king crab are reduced under 5 AAC 77.664(e)(2)(C), the pot and ring net limits for Dungeness crab will also be
				  reduced to the same pot and ring net limits established for red and blue king
				  crab under 5 AAC 77.664(e)(2)(C).
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Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 77 - Personal Use Fishery › Article 14 - Southeastern Alaska Area › 5 AAC 77.664 - Personal use king crab fishery

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) King crab may
				  only be taken under the authority of a permit issued under
				  5 AAC 77.015; the department will issue only one king
				  crab personal use fishing permit per household per year.
(b) Except as specified in (e) of this
				  section the daily bag and possession limit is three male crab per person; if
				  the regionwide harvestable biomass of mature red and blue king crab is below
				  200,000 pounds, the commissioner may, by emergency order, reduce the bag and
				  possession limit of red and blue king crab.
(c) The king crab seasons are as follows:
(1) red and blue king crab may be taken only
				  from July 1 through March 31;
(2)
				  golden king crab may be taken only from July 1 through June 15;
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 77 - Personal Use Fishery › Article 14 - Southeastern Alaska Area › 5 AAC 77.666 - Personal use Tanner crab fishery

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Except as
				  provided in (b) of this section, in the personal use taking of Tanner crab,
(1) Tanner crab may be taken only from July 1
				  through June 15;
(2) the daily bag
				  and possession limit is 30 male Tanner crab;
(3) notwithstanding
				  5 AAC 77.010(i), no more than four pots
				  or 10 ring nets per vessel may be used to take Tanner crab; a pot used to take
				  Tanner crab under this section must have at least two circular escape rings on
				  opposing vertical or sloping sides of the pot that each are not less than four
				  and three-quarter inches inside diameter;
(4) only male Tanner crab 5.5 inches or
				  greater in width of shell may be taken or possessed;
(5) male Tanner crab less than the minimum
				  legal size and female Tanner crab that have been taken must be immediately
				  returned unharmed to the sea;
(6) a
				  person may not utilize live holding facility to accumulate or pool multiple bag
				  limits.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 77 - Personal Use Fishery › Article 14 - Southeastern Alaska Area › 5 AAC 77.667 - Personal use scallop fishery

Current through May 31, 2024
In the personal use taking of scallops
(1) there is no closed season;
(2) the daily possession limit is
(A) five rock scallops (
Hinnites
				  sp
);
(B) 10 weathervane
				  scallops (
Pecten sp
);
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 77 - Personal Use Fishery › Article 14 - Southeastern Alaska Area › 5 AAC 77.668 - Personal use clam fishery

Current through May 31, 2024
In the personal use taking of clams
(1) there is no closed season;
(2) there are no daily bag and possession
				  limits for clams, except that for
(A)
				  geoducks, the daily bag and possession limit is six;
(B) razor clams on western Kruzof Island
				  beaches between Cape Edgecumbe and Cape Georgiana, the bag and possession limit
				  is 50 clams; all damaged razor clams are part of the bag limit;
(C) unless opened by emergency order, the
				  Sitka Sound Special Use Area described in
				  5 AAC 77.674(3) (A)(i) is closed to the
				  harvest of razor clams;
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 77 - Personal Use Fishery › Article 14 - Southeastern Alaska Area › 5 AAC 77.670 - Personal use abalone fishery

Current through May 31, 2024
In the personal use taking of abalone
(1) there is no closed season;
(2) the daily bag and possession limit is
				  five abalone per person;
(3) the
				  minimum legal size is three and one-half inches (89 mm) in greatest diameter of
				  shell;
(4) personal use fishing is
				  prohibited while engaged in commercial abalone fishing; before engaging in the
				  personal use fishery, commercial abalone fishermen must land the commercial
				  catch in possession and return the commercial permit required under
				  5 AAC 38.133 to the Department of Fish and
				  Game;
(5) a diver using a
				  compressed air system, such as scuba or hookah, may not take abalone.
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