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Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 24 - Prince William Sound Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 24.368 - Wally Noerenberg (Esther Island) Hatchery Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The department,
				  in consultation with the hatchery operator, shall manage the Esther
				  Subdistrict, the Perry Island Subdistrict, and the Granite Bay Subdistrict to
				  achieve the corporation's escapement goal for the Wally Noerenberg (Esther
				  Island) salmon hatchery. The Granite Bay Subdistrict will be closed only if the
				  Esther and the Perry Island Subdistricts are not achieving adequate hatchery
				  escapement.
(b) Deleted
				  4/19/91.
(c) The Wally Noerenberg
				  Hatchery Terminal Harvest Area consists of the waters of Lake Bay: and Quillian
				  Bay inside of a line from Hodgkin Point at 60° 46.93' N. lat., 148°
				  02.10' W. long, to Esther Light at 60° 47.14' N. lat., 148° 06.02' W.
				  long., excluding the waters of the Wally Noerenberg Special Harvest Area.
(d) The Wally Noerenberg Hatchery
				  Special Harvest Area consists of the waters of Lake Bay north of 60° 47.56'
				  N. lat.
(e) Notwithstanding
				  5 AAC 24.320 and
				  5 AAC 24.330, and except as otherwise provided by
				  emergency order, a corporation holding a permit under
				  AS
				  16.10.400 for the Wally Noerenberg Hatchery,
				  and an agent, contractor, or employee of that corporation who is authorized
				  under 5 AAC 40.005(g),
				  may harvest salmon within the Wally Noerenberg Special Harvest Area from 6:00
				  a.m. May 25 through 6:00 p.m. September 15, using purse seines, hand purse
				  seines, and beach seines.
(f) The
				  commissioner may open, by emergency order, a season and establish fishing
				  periods during which seine gear may be used in the Esther Subdistrict for the
				  purpose of preventing deterioration of fish quality of the harvestable surplus
				  of chum salmon that is not being adequately harvested by the drift gillnet
				  fleet.
Under the authority of
						AS
						44.62.125(b)(6) and
						AS
						01.05.031(b)(11),
						5 AAC 24.368(b) was deleted by the
						regulations attorney as of Register 119 (October 1991), because as of April 30,
						1991, the subject matter of that subsection was relocated to
						5 AAC 24.370.
Authority:
AS
						16.05.060
AS
						16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 24 - Prince William Sound Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 24.370 - Prince William Sound Management and Salmon Enhancement Allocation Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The
				  purpose of the management and allocation plan contained in this section is to
				  provide a fair and reasonable allocation of the harvest of enhanced salmon
				  among the drift gillnet, seine, and set gillnet commercial fisheries, and to
				  reduce conflicts between these user groups. It is the intent of the Board of
				  Fisheries (board) to allocate enhanced salmon stocks in the Prince William
				  Sound Area to maintain the long-term historic balance between competing
				  commercial users that has existed since statehood, while acknowledging
				  developments in the fisheries that have occurred since this plan went into
				  effect in 1991.
(b) For the
				  purposes of determination of allocation percentages for the drift gillnet and
				  purse seine fisheries, calculations shall be based on the ex-vessel value of
				  the harvest of enhanced salmon stocks by the drift gillnet and purse seine
				  fisheries without considering the set gillnet catch. The ex-vessel value
				  allocation of enhanced salmon stocks for the set gillnet gear group is four
				  percent of the total allocation. The remaining ex-vessel value allocation of
				  the enhanced stocks is as follows:
(1) drift
				  gillnet - 50 percent;
(2) purse
				  seine - 50 percent.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 24 - Prince William Sound Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 24.378 - Use of aircraft unlawful

Current through May 31, 2024
During open commercial salmon fishing periods no person may
					 use an aircraft to locate salmon for the commercial taking of those fish or to
					 direct commercial fishing operations.
Authority:
AS
						16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 24 - Prince William Sound Area › Article 5 - Smelt Fishery › 5 AAC 24.520 - Prince William Sound Eulachon Smelt Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Eulachon smelt
				  (thaleichthys pacificus) may be taken only in the fresh waters of the Copper
				  River drainage below Miles Lake and only under the conditions of a permit
				  issued by the commissioner or the commissioner's designee.
(b) The permit required in (a) of this
				  section shall include reporting requirements and any other conditions
				  determined necessary by the commissioner for conservation and management
				  purposes.
(c) Eulachon smelt may be
				  taken from May 1 through June 15.
(d) Eulachon smelt may be taken only with dip
				  nets.
(e) No more than 300 tons of
				  eulachon smelt may be taken annually.
Authority:
AS
						16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 24 - Prince William Sound Area › Article 8 - Freshwater Fishery › 5 AAC 24.850 - Closed waters

Current through May 31, 2024
Crosswind Lake is closed to commercial fishing for
					 whitefish, char and allied species.
Authority:
AS
						16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 27 - Herring Fishery › Article 1 - Registration Areas › 5 AAC 27.001 - Application of this chapter

Current through May 31, 2024
Unless otherwise specified, the requirements set out in
					 this chapter apply only to commercial herring fishing. Subsistence, personal
					 use, and sport fishing regulations that affect commercial herring fishing
					 vessels or activity are set out in the subsistence fishing regulations in 5 AAC
					 01 and 5 AAC 02, personal use fishing regulations in 5 AAC 77, and sport
					 fishing regulations in 5 AAC 47 - 5 AAC 75.
Authority:
AS
						16.05.251
AS
						16.05.258
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 27 - Herring Fishery › Article 1 - Registration Areas › 5 AAC 27.005 - Registration areas established

Current through May 31, 2024
Herring fishery registration areas and code letters
					 are:
Code
Letter A - Southeastern Alaska Area (5 AAC 27.100) D - Yakutat Area (5 AAC 27.200) E - Prince William Sound Area (5 AAC 27.300) H - Cook Inlet Area (5 AAC 27.400) K - Kodiak Area (5 AAC 27.500) L - Chignik Area (5 AAC 27.550) M - Alaska Peninsula-Aleutian Islands Area
					 (5 AAC 27.600) T - Bristol Bay Area
					 (5 AAC 27.800) W - Kuskokwim Area
					 (5 AAC 27.870) Q - Bering
					 Sea-Kotzebue Area (5 AAC 27.900)
Authority:
AS
						16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 27 - Herring Fishery › Article 2 - General Specifications › 5 AAC 27.010 - Application of regulations

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Unless
				  otherwise specified in this chapter, the regulations in this chapter that apply
				  to a herring registration area also apply to the waters of the exclusive
				  economic zone that are adjacent to the herring registration area.
(b) The commissioner may suspend the
				  application of the regulations in this chapter that apply to a herring
				  registration area to all or a portion of the waters of the exclusive economic
				  zone that are adjacent to a herring registration area if the commissioner finds
				  that
(1) application of the regulation fails
				  to facilitate enforcement of regulations that apply to the registration
				  area;
(2) application of the
				  regulation fails to protect or conserve herring inhabiting territorial waters
				  of Alaska; or
(3) the state has an
				  insufficient interest in the herring that inhabit the waters of the adjacent
				  exclusive economic zone to warrant extending the state's jurisdiction to those
				  waters.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 27 - Herring Fishery › Article 2 - General Specifications › 5 AAC 27.030 - Landing requirements

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Except as specified in (b) of this
				  section, a herring fishing vessel must land all herring within the registration
				  area in which the herring were taken.
(b) The vessel owner, or the owner's agent,
				  of a herring fishing vessel that desires to land herring in a registration area
				  other than the one from which the herring were taken shall contact in person,
				  or by radio or telephone, a local representative of the department for
				  authorization before leaving the registration area in which the herring were
				  taken and shall submit to a vessel inspection at a location specified by the
				  representative. A vessel landing herring under an authorization granted under
				  this subsection may not, at the time of landing its catch, have more herring on
				  board than were present at the time of the inspection. The vessel owner, or the
				  owner's agent, making radio or telephone contact shall state to the
				  representative the amount of herring on board at the time of contact. A vessel
				  authorized to land herring in another registration area may not land in the
				  other registration area an amount of herring that, by weight, exceeds by 10
				  percent, whether more or less, the amount stated at the time of the contact
				  with the department's local representative.
(c) The commissioner may suspend and
				  reinstate any requirement of (b) of this section for a particular registration
				  area if the commissioner finds that to do so would be in the public
				  interest.
Authority:
AS
						16.05.020
AS
						16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 27 - Herring Fishery › Article 2 - General Specifications › 5 AAC 27.035 - Closure of registration areas

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The
				  commissioner shall monitor the condition of herring stocks in all registration
				  areas by using the data and information that are practically
				  available.
(b) When the
				  commissioner finds that continued herring fishing would jeopardize the health
				  of herring stock within a registration area, the commissioner, by emergency
				  order, shall close the registration area.
(c) In determining whether to close a
				  registration area, the commissioner shall consider all appropriate factors to
				  the extent there is information available on such factors. Factors which may be
				  considered include
(1) the effect of overall
				  fishing effort within the registration area;
(2) catch per unit of effort and rate of
				  harvest;
(3) relative abundance of
				  herring within the area in comparison with preseason expectations of the
				  department;
(4) guideline harvest
				  levels which may be adopted by regulation;
(5) the proportion of immature or spawned-out
				  herring being handled or landed;
(6) general information on the condition of
				  herring within the area;
(7)
				  information pertaining to the maximum sustainable yield level of herring within
				  the registration area;
(8)
				  timeliness and accuracy of catch reporting by buyers within the registration
				  area to the extent that such timeliness or accuracy may reasonably be expected
				  to affect proper management; and
(9) adequacy of subsistence harvests within
				  the registration area.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 27 - Herring Fishery › Article 2 - General Specifications › 5 AAC 27.045 - Discretionary openings

Current through May 31, 2024
In any registration area or portion of a registration area,
					 the commissioner may delay the opening beyond the earliest date specified in
					 the regulations if the commissioner finds that the delay would effect the
					 orderly conduct of the fishery or the conservation of the fishery
					 resources.
Authority:
AS
						16.05.020
AS 16.05.060
AS
						16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 27 - Herring Fishery › Article 2 - General Specifications › 5 AAC 27.050 - Lawful gear for herring

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) During an open
				  herring fishing season in a registration area, herring may only be taken by
				  seines, gillnets, trawls, or pounds as specified in
				  5 AAC 27.100 - 5 AAC 27.990. In areas in which legal
				  gear is not specified in
				  5 AAC 27.100 - 5 AAC 27.990 for use during an open
				  herring fishing season, herring may be taken by legal types of gear specified
				  in 5 AAC 39.105(d).
(b) No net or other obstruction may be placed
				  across the entrance to any lagoon or bay that may prevent the free passage of
				  herring.
(c) Unless otherwise
				  specified in this chapter, the mesh size of a herring gillnet may not be less
				  than two and one-eighth inches or more than two and one-half inches.
(d) Gillnets may be fished with the float
				  line and floats below the surface of the water.
(e) A person may not use a gillnet to take
				  herring at the same time that the person is using a purse seine, hand purse
				  seine, or beach seine to take herring.
(f) A purse seine and a hand purse seine,
				  have stopped fishing when both ends of the seine, excluding skiff tow lines and
				  straps, are attached to the fishing vessel. A beach seine has stopped fishing
				  when both ends of the seine are on the beach above the water line or when all
				  of the lead line is removed from the water.
Authority:
AS
						16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 27 - Herring Fishery › Article 2 - General Specifications › 5 AAC 27.055 - Permits for herring spawn

Current through May 31, 2024
The taking of herring spawn for commercial purposes may be
					 conducted only under the terms of a permit issued by the commissioner or the
					 commissioner's designee, unless otherwise provided in
					 5 AAC 27.100 - 5 AAC 27.990.
Authority:
AS
						16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 27 - Herring Fishery › Article 2 - General Specifications › 5 AAC 27.059 - Management guidelines for commercial herring sac roe fisheries

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) If the
				  department has adequate information, and if department management programs are
				  in place, the department may manage commercial herring sac roe fisheries, to
				  enhance the value of the landed product as follows:
(1) fishing periods may be established by
				  emergency order in areas and during times when sampling has demonstrated, or
				  when other factors indicate, that the herring roe content of the catch is
				  likely to be highest;
(2) fishing
				  periods may be established by emergency order in areas and during times when
				  sampling has demonstrated, or when other factors indicate, that the catch is
				  composed of the maximum average size of herring available for the
				  stock;
(3) in a preseason
				  management plan, the department shall specify the particular herring fisheries
				  that are to be managed to enhance the value of the landed product.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 27 - Herring Fishery › Article 3 - Prohibitions › 5 AAC 27.090 - Unlawful possession of herring or herring gear

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) A person may
				  not possess unprocessed herring aboard a vessel licensed as a commercial
				  fishing vessel within any registration area unless the season is open or unless
				  the person is acting under the authorization of
				  5 AAC 27.030(b). This prohibition does
				  not apply to herring possessed for subsistence or personal bait purposes under
				  applicable regulations.
(b) A
				  person may not possess herring or herring gear aboard a vessel licensed as a
				  commercial fishing vessel within any registration area if the herring are taken
				  in violation of, or the gear is prohibited by other regulations in this chapter
				  governing the registration area, unless the vessel is acting under the
				  authorization of
				  5 AAC 27.030(b).
(c) It is unlawful for any person to possess,
				  purchase, sell, barter, or transport herring within the state or within waters
				  subject to the jurisdiction of the state if that person knows or has reason to
				  know that that herring was taken or possessed in contravention of the
				  regulations of this chapter.
Authority:
AS
						16.05.251
AS
						16.05.920
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 27 - Herring Fishery › Article 3 - Prohibitions › 5 AAC 27.095 - General restriction (Repealed)

Current through May 31, 2024
As of Register 146, July 1998, the substance of former
						5 AAC 27.095 appears in
						5 AAC 27.510(b),
						5 AAC 27.560(c), and
						5 AAC 27.610(f).
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 27 - Herring Fishery › Article 3 - Prohibitions › 5 AAC 27.097 - Violation of landing requirement (Repealed)

Current through May 31, 2024
As of Register 146, July 1998, the substance of former
						5 AAC 27.097 appears in
						5 AAC 27.030(b).
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 27 - Herring Fishery › Article 4 - Southeastern Alaska Area (Registration Area A) › 5 AAC 27.100 - Description of Southeastern Alaska Area

Current through May 31, 2024
The Southeastern Alaska Area has as its southern boundary
					 the International Boundary at Dixon Entrance, and as its northern Boundary a
					 line extending seaward from the western tip of Cape Fairweather, at 58º
					 47.89' N. lat., 137º 56.68' W. long., to the intersection with the seaward
					 limit of the three-nautical-mile territorial sea at 58º 45.91' N. lat.,
					 138º 01.53' W. long.
Authority:
AS
						16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 27 - Herring Fishery › Article 4 - Southeastern Alaska Area (Registration Area A) › 5 AAC 27.105 - Description of Southeastern Alaska Area districts

Current through May 31, 2024
Districts are as described in
					 5 AAC 33.200.
Authority:
AS
						16.05.251(a)
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 27 - Herring Fishery › Article 4 - Southeastern Alaska Area (Registration Area A) › 5 AAC 27.110 - Fishing seasons for Southeastern Alaska Area

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Herring may be
				  taken from October 1 through February 28 (winter food and bait fishery), only
				  during periods established by emergency order, in the following Districts and
				  Sections: 1 - 10, 11-B, 11-C, 12, 13-A, 13-B south of the latitude of Aspid
				  Cape (56º 41.75' N. lat.), 14, 15-A, and 16, except for locations within
				  those districts set out in (b) of this section.
(b) Herring may be taken in the sac roe
				  fishery only during seasons established by emergency order in the following
				  districts and sections:
(1) in the purse
				  seine fishery, herring may be taken only in the following sections:
(A) repealed 7/13/2012;
(B) repealed 7/13/2012;
(C) repealed 6/17/2018;
(D) Section 13-A, south of the latitude of
				  Point Kakul (57º 21.75' N. lat.);
(E) Section 13-B, north of the latitude of
				  Aspid Cape (56º 41.75' N. lat.), except for Whale and Necker
				  Bays;
(F) repealed
				  6/17/2018;
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 27 - Herring Fishery › Article 4 - Southeastern Alaska Area (Registration Area A) › 5 AAC 27.130 - Lawful gear for Southeastern Alaska Area

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Herring may be
				  taken during the open season by purse seines and gillnets.
(b) Herring pounds for fresh bait and tray
				  pack operations may be used only under the terms of a permit issued by the
				  commissioner.
(c) Herring pounds
				  for the taking of spawn-on-kelp in pounds may be operated only under terms of a
				  permit issued by the commissioner and as provided in
				  5 AAC 27.185.
(d) A herring pound for the herring
				  spawn-on-kelp pound fishery may be a closed pound or an open pound and may be
				  operated only as provided in
				  5 AAC 27.185.
(e) In the Southeastern Alaska Area,
(1) a closed pound consists of a single,
				  floating, rectangular frame structure with suspended webbing that is used to
				  enclose herring for a period of time in order to produce spawn on kelp
				  suspended within the pound; a closed pound shall be operated as follows:
(A) webbing of a closed pound may not have a
				  mesh size of more than one and one-half inches;
(B) the opening of a closed pound must be
				  rectangular at the water surface and may not exceed 800 square feet in
				  area;
(C) neither the sewn vertical
				  wall nor the near-vertical wall may exceed the depth below the water surface
				  when the pound contains herring as follows:
(i) with a surface square footage less than
				  400 feet, the depth of webbing may not exceed 30 feet;
(ii) with a surface square footage of at
				  least 401 feet but not more than 500 feet, the depth of webbing may not exceed
				  24 feet;
(iii) with a surface
				  square footage of at least 501 feet but not more than 600 feet, the depth of
				  webbing may not exceed 20 feet;
(iv) with a surface square footage of at
				  least 601 feet but not more than 700 feet, the depth of webbing may not exceed
				  17 feet;
(v) with a surface square
				  footage of at least 701 feet but not more than 800 feet, the depth of webbing
				  may not exceed 15 feet;
(D) webbing of a closed pound may not be part
				  of the webbing of another pound structure;
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 27 - Herring Fishery › Article 4 - Southeastern Alaska Area (Registration Area A) › 5 AAC 27.132 - Seine specifications and operations for Southeastern Alaska Area

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) A herring
				  purse seine may not be more than 200 fathoms in length.
(b) A herring purse seine may not be more
				  than 1,700 meshes in depth, except that for Section 12-A, the commissioner may,
				  by emergency order, open a purse seine herring fishery during which a herring
				  purse seine may not be more than 2,125 meshes in depth.
(c) Repealed 4/28/84.
Authority:
AS
						16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 27 - Herring Fishery › Article 4 - Southeastern Alaska Area (Registration Area A) › 5 AAC 27.150 - Waters closed to herring fishing in Southeastern Alaska Area

Current through May 31, 2024
Herring may not be taken in
(1) District 1, in the waters of Clover Pass,
				  Tongass Narrows, Moser Bay, and Naha Bay that are south and east of a line from
				  Indian Point located at 55º 36.85' N. lat., 131º 42.03' W. long., to
				  the northeastern tip of Betton Island located at 55º 32.56' N. lat.,
				  131º 47.66' W. long., to a point on the southwest tip of Betton Island
				  located at 55º 30.22' N. lat., 131º 50.32' W. long., to Guard Island
				  Light, to Vallenar Point located at 55º 25.58' N. lat., 131º 51.09'
				  W. long.;
(2) District 2, in Kasaan
				  Bay west of a line from Island Point to Grindall Point, including all waters of
				  Skowl Arm, Polk Inlet, McKenzie Inlet, and Twelve Mile Arm;
(3) District 5;
(4) District 6,
(A) by herring purse seine in the waters of
				  Wrangell Narrows between the latitude of Blunt Point and the longitude of
				  Prowley Point Light;
(B) in the
				  waters of District 6 west of the longitude of Point Colpoys;
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 27 - Herring Fishery › Article 4 - Southeastern Alaska Area (Registration Area A) › 5 AAC 27.160 - Quotas and guideline harvest levels for Southeastern Alaska Area

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Repealed
				  12/29/84.
(b) The herring harvest
				  quota for bait pound operations is as follows:
(1) Scow Bay: 100 tons;
(2) Section 13-B: 100 tons;
(3) Lisianski Inlet: 25 tons;
(4) Section 1-E: 10 percent of the guideline
				  harvest level for the West Behm Canal stock;
(5) Sections 11-A, 15-B, and 15-C: 120 tons;
				  if there are no active herring bait pound permits issued by April 1 of a year,
				  the remainder of the 120-ton harvest quota will be allocated to the commercial
				  sac roe purse seine fishery;
(6)
				  District 7: 10 percent of the guideline harvest level for the Ernest Sound
				  stock; the harvest quota for the winter food and bait fishery is 90 percent of
				  that guideline harvest level; if there are no active herring bait pound permits
				  issued by March 15 of a year, the unharvested remainder of that guideline
				  harvest level will be allocated to the herring spawn-on-kelp fishery; after the
				  spawn-on-kelp fishery in District 7 is closed, any remaining unharvested
				  portion of that guideline harvest level will be allocated to the bait pound
				  fishery;
(7) District 12: 10
				  percent of the guideline harvest level for the Tenakee Inlet stock; the harvest
				  quota for the winter food and bait fishery is 90 percent of that guideline
				  harvest level; if there are no active herring bait pound permits issued by
				  March 15 of a year, the unharvested remainder of that guideline harvest level
				  will be allocated to the herring spawn on kelp fishery; after the spawn-on-kelp
				  fishery in District 12 is closed, any remaining unharvested portion of that
				  guideline harvest level will be allocated to the bait pound fishery;
(8) Section 13-C: in the bait pound fishery,
				  herring may be harvested only after the spawn-on-kelp fishery is closed and
				  only if the guideline harvest level has not been taken;
(9) for districts and sections in the
				  Southeastern Alaska Area not specified in this subsection: the department may
				  open a bait pound fishery in a district or section that has a harvestable
				  surplus as determined by annual department stock assessments; in a fishery
				  opened under this paragraph, no more than 100 tons of herring may be
				  harvested.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 27 - Herring Fishery › Article 4 - Southeastern Alaska Area (Registration Area A) › 5 AAC 27.162 - Buyer and tender reporting requirements for the sac roe herring fishery in Southeastern Alaska Area

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) In addition to
				  the requirements of
				  5 AAC 39.130(n), a tender operator,
				  buyer, or buyer's agent shall report in person to and register with a local
				  representative of the department upon arrival in the registration area before
				  commencing operations and before changing location of the operation. The buyer
				  or the buyer's agent shall
(1) identify all
				  vessels to be employed in transporting or processing herring and shall register
				  those vessels with a local representative of the department located in the
				  registration area before transporting or processing herring;
(2) make daily reports of all herring
				  purchased from fishermen and other processing records as specified by a local
				  representative of the department; and
(3) submit fully completed fish tickets with
				  accurate and final weight and roe percentages no later than 10 days after
				  termination of buying operations in the area, or as otherwise specified by a
				  local representative of the department.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 27 - Herring Fishery › Article 4 - Southeastern Alaska Area (Registration Area A) › 5 AAC 27.170 - Harvest of bait by commercial permit holders in Southeastern Alaska Area

Current through May 31, 2024
The holder of a valid CFEC interim use or limited entry
					 permit may take but may not sell herring for use as bait in the commercial
					 fishery for which the permit is held as follows:
(1) herring may be taken at any
				  time;
(2) herring may be taken by
				  any gear specified in
				  5 AAC 39.105;
(3) in the 72 hours before and 72 hours after
				  an open commercial herring sac roe fishing period in the Southeastern Alaska
				  Area, a vessel, crew member, or permit holder that participates in that
				  commercial herring sac roe fishing period may not take herring under this
				  section in any district in the Southeastern Alaska Area;
(4) a person or vessel may not take more than
				  one ton of herring in a calendar year, except as provided under terms of a
				  permit issued by the department.
Authority:
AS
						16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 27 - Herring Fishery › Article 4 - Southeastern Alaska Area (Registration Area A) › 5 AAC 27.179 - Permits for winter food and bait herring fishery in Southeastern Alaska Area

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The owner or operator of a vessel used in
				  the winter food and bait herring fishery must obtain a permit issued by the
				  commissioner. In the permit, the commissioner shall set the date when the
				  permit holder may begin fishing. The date shall occur during a 14-day period
				  following the issuance of the permit. When setting the date under this
				  subsection, the commissioner shall consider the following:
(1) the anticipated harvest effort in the
				  district;
(2) the guideline harvest
				  level established;
(3) the
				  available tender capacity; and
(4)
				  seasonal bait demand.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 27 - Herring Fishery › Article 4 - Southeastern Alaska Area (Registration Area A) › 5 AAC 27.180 - Permits for herring pounds in Southeastern Alaska Area

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) A herring pound
				  operator shall obtain a permit before April 1 from the commissioner for fresh
				  bait pound operations and for tray pack pound operations 30 days before
				  starting operations.
(b) A person
				  operating a fresh bait or tray pack herring pound may not sell, offer to sell,
				  or otherwise enter into or authorize a commercial transaction for the
				  disposition of herring taken from that pound if the person knows or has reason
				  to know that the herring will be used for other than fresh or tray pack bait
				  purposes.
(c) A person may not
				  transport herring taken from a fresh bait or a tray pack pound to another
				  person if the person knows or has reason to know that the herring will be used
				  for other than fresh or tray pack bait purposes.
(d) The commissioner may attach to a permit
				  issued under this section for fresh bait and tray pack herring pounds any
				  condition the commissioner considers necessary to preclude or render
				  impractical the use of herring taken by that pound for other than fresh or tray
				  pack bait purposes. The commissioner may revoke a permit issued under this
				  section for failure to comply with conditions attached to it.
Authority:
AS
						16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 27 - Herring Fishery › Article 4 - Southeastern Alaska Area (Registration Area A) › 5 AAC 27.187 - Buyer and processors reporting requirements for spawn on kelp in pounds for the Southeastern Alaska Area

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) In Sections
				  3-B, 7-B, 12-A, and 13-C
(1) the initial
				  buyer or processor of herring spawn on kelp shall issue a fish ticket when the
				  spawn on kelp is delivered by a CFEC permit holder and shall, within seven days
				  of delivery, provide a copy of the fish ticket to the department;
(2) the fish ticket shall set out
(A) the number of blades of spawn on kelp
				  delivered;
(B) the total weight of
				  spawn on kelp delivered;
(C) the
				  type of pound (open or closed) that contained the spawn on kelp; and
(D) whether the spawn on kelp was salted when
				  initially weighed;
(3)
				  if an accurate, drained weight cannot be obtained at the time of delivery, the
				  reported weight on the fish ticket shall be marked as "estimated weight" and
				  the buyer or processor shall notify the department of the accurate, drained
				  weight as soon as it is available;
(4) a processor shall notify the department
				  of the delivered weight by grade and the final exvessel value by grade as soon
				  as that information is available;
(5) a permit holder may place herring spawn
				  on kelp in a tote-size or larger container with a salt brine solution, in order
				  to transport the spawn on kelp to a processor, if the permit holder
(A) is present at the time and place when the
				  spawn on kelp is first delivered;
(B) before leaving the fishing grounds,
				  notifies the department of the estimated amount of spawn on kelp and the
				  expected time and location of its delivery; and
(C) delivers the spawn on kelp to a processor
				  registered under
				  5 AAC 39.130 within 72 hours after it was
				  harvested.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 27 - Herring Fishery › Article 4 - Southeastern Alaska Area (Registration Area A) › 5 AAC 27.190 - Herring Management Plan for Southeastern Alaska Area

Current through May 31, 2024
For the management of herring fisheries in the Southeastern
					 Alaska Area, the department
(1) shall
				  identify stocks of herring on a spawning area basis;
(2) shall establish minimum spawning biomass
				  thresholds below which fishing will not be allowed;
(3) shall assess the abundance of mature
				  herring for each stock before allowing fishing to occur;
(4) except as provided elsewhere, may allow a
				  harvest of herring at an exploitation rate between 10 percent and 20 percent of
				  the estimated spawning biomass when that biomass is above the minimum threshold
				  level;
(5) may identify and
				  consider sources of mortality in setting harvest guideline;
(6) by emergency order, may modify fishing
				  periods to minimize incidental mortalities during commercial
				  fisheries.
Authority:
AS
						16.05.060
AS
						16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 27 - Herring Fishery › Article 4 - Southeastern Alaska Area (Registration Area A) › 5 AAC 27.195 - Sitka Sound commercial sac roe herring fishery

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) In managing the
				  commercial sac roe herring fishery in section 13-B north of the latitude of
				  Aspid Cape (Sitka Sound), the department shall
(1) manage the fishery consistent with the
				  applicable provisions of
				  5 AAC 27.160(g) and
				  5 AAC 27.190;
(2) distribute the commercial harvest by
				  fishing time and area if the department determines that it is necessary to
				  ensure that subsistence users have a reasonable opportunity to harvest the
				  amount of herring spawn necessary for subsistence uses specified in
				  5 AAC 01.716(b).
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 27 - Herring Fishery › Article 4 - Southeastern Alaska Area (Registration Area A) › 5 AAC 27.197 - Sections 1-E and 1-F commercial sac roe herring fishery

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) In managing the
				  commercial sac roe herring fishery in Section 1-E and the waters of Section 1-F
				  north of the latitude of South Vallenar Point, the commissioner will open and
				  close fishing periods and areas open for fishing using set gillnet gear by
				  emergency order, during which the commissioner may impose conditions that are
				  necessary for an orderly and manageable fishery.
(b) When the harvest of herring by the set
				  gillnet fishery exceeds the guideline harvest level for a year, the excess
				  harvest may not be factored into determining the guideline harvest level for a
				  future year.
Authority:
AS
						16.05.060
AS
						16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 27 - Herring Fishery › Article 5 - Yakutat Area (Registration Area D) › 5 AAC 27.200 - Description of Yakutat Area

Current through May 31, 2024
The Yakutat Area has as its western boundary the longitude
					 of Cape Suckling (144º W. long.), and as its southern boundary a line
					 extending seaward from the western tip of Cape Fairweather, at 58º 47.89'
					 N. lat., 137º 56.68' W. long., to the intersection with the seaward limit
					 of the three-nautical-mile territorial sea at 58º 45.91' N. lat.,
					 138º 01.53' W. long.
Authority:
AS
						16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 27 - Herring Fishery › Article 5 - Yakutat Area (Registration Area D) › 5 AAC 27.205 - Description of Yakutat Area districts

Current through May 31, 2024
Districts are as described in
					 5 AAC 30.200.
Authority:
AS
						16.05.251(a)
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 27 - Herring Fishery › Article 5 - Yakutat Area (Registration Area D) › 5 AAC 27.210 - Fishing season for Yakutat Area

Current through May 31, 2024
Herring may be taken from October 1 through February 28
					 (winter food and bait fishery), only during periods established by emergency
					 order.
Authority:
AS
						16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 27 - Herring Fishery › Article 5 - Yakutat Area (Registration Area D) › 5 AAC 27.230 - Lawful gear for Yakutat Area

Current through May 31, 2024
Herring may be taken by purse seines and
					 gillnets.
Authority:
AS
						16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 27 - Herring Fishery › Article 5 - Yakutat Area (Registration Area D) › 5 AAC 27.250 - Closed waters in Yakutat Area

Current through May 31, 2024
Herring may not be taken in Yakutat Bay.
Authority:
AS
						16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 27 - Herring Fishery › Article 5 - Yakutat Area (Registration Area D) › 5 AAC 27.270 - Harvest of bait by commercial permit holders in Yakutat Area

Current through May 31, 2024
The holder of a valid CFEC interim use or limited entry
					 permit may take but may not sell herring for use as bait in the commercial
					 fishery for which the permit is held as follows:
(1) herring may be taken at any
				  time;
(2) unless use of a gear is
				  restricted in 5 AAC 27 - 5 AAC 39, herring may be taken by any gear specified
				  in 5 AAC 39.105;
(3) a person or vessel may not take more than
				  one ton of herring, except as provided under terms of a permit issued by the
				  department.
Authority:
AS
						16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 27 - Herring Fishery › Article 6 - Prince William Sound Area (Registration Area E) › 5 AAC 27.300 - Description of Prince William Sound Area

Current through May 31, 2024
The Prince William Sound Area has as its western boundary a
					 line extending south from Cape Fairfield, as its eastern boundary a line
					 extending south from Cape Suckling and as its southern boundary 59º N.
					 lat..
Authority:
AS
						16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 27 - Herring Fishery › Article 6 - Prince William Sound Area (Registration Area E) › 5 AAC 27.310 - Fishing seasons and periods for Prince William Sound Area

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) From March 1
				  through June 30 (sac roe season), herring may be taken only during periods
				  established by emergency order.
(b)
				  Herring may be taken for food and bait from October 1 through January 31, only
				  during periods established by emergency order.
(c) Herring spawn on kelp not in pounds (the
				  wild herring spawn-on-kelp fishery) may be taken only during periods
				  established by emergency order.
(d)
				  Herring spawn on kelp in open or closed pounds (the herring spawn-on-kelp pound
				  fishery) may be taken only during periods established by emergency order. The
				  department may open or close the herring spawn-on-kelp open pound or closed
				  pound fishery, jointly or separately, by emergency order.
(e) Repealed 5/11/85.
(f) Repealed 5/11/85.
Authority:
AS
						16.05.060
AS
						16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 27 - Herring Fishery › Article 6 - Prince William Sound Area (Registration Area E) › 5 AAC 27.330 - Lawful gear for Prince William Sound Area

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) From March 1
				  through June 30, herring may be taken only by purse seines and
				  gillnets.
(b) For the wild herring
				  spawn-on-kelp (not in pounds) fishery, herring spawn on kelp may be taken by
				  hand cutting as specified in
				  5 AAC 27.333.
(c) Repealed 9/17/94.
(d) A pound for the herring spawn-on-kelp
				  pound fishery may be either a closed pound or an open pound.
(e) In
				  5 AAC 27.300 -
				  5 AAC 27.390,
(1) a
				  closed pound consists of a single, floating, rectangular frame structure, with
				  webbing and suspended kelp, that is used to enclose herring for a period of
				  time in order to produce spawn on kelp; the opening of a closed pound at the
				  water surface may not exceed 2,000 square feet in area; neither the sewn
				  vertical wall nor the near-vertical wall of a closed pound may exceed a depth
				  of 30 feet below the water surface when the pound contains herring; webbing of
				  a closed pound may not be part of the webbing of another pound structure; to
				  prevent suffocation of impounded herring, a closed pound must include a minimum
				  of five feet of surplus webbing gathered at the surface that may be lowered
				  into the water when submerged webbing becomes saturated with eggs;
(2) an open pound consists of a single,
				  floating, rectangular frame structure with suspended kelp and no webbing that
				  is used for the production of spawn on kelp, or is a closed pound as described
				  in (1) of this subsection with all webbing, on at least one side of the pound,
				  not less than one fathom below the water surface.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 27 - Herring Fishery › Article 6 - Prince William Sound Area (Registration Area E) › 5 AAC 27.331 - Gillnet specifications and operations for Prince William Sound Area

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) During the
				  herring food and bait season, herring gillnets operated from a herring fishing
				  vessel may not exceed 150 fathoms in aggregate length.
(b) From March 1 through June 30, herring
				  gillnets operated from a herring fishing vessel may not exceed 120 meshes in
				  depth and 100 fathoms in aggregate length.
(c) Notwithstanding
				  5 AAC 27.050(c), the mesh size of a
				  herring gillnet in the Prince William Sound Area may not exceed three
				  inches.
Authority:
AS
						16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 27 - Herring Fishery › Article 6 - Prince William Sound Area (Registration Area E) › 5 AAC 27.332 - Seine specifications and operations for Prince William Sound Area

Current through May 31, 2024
A person may not operate a purse seine that is more than
					 1,025 meshes in depth and more than 150 fathoms in length from April 15 through
					 June 30.
Authority:
AS
						16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 27 - Herring Fishery › Article 6 - Prince William Sound Area (Registration Area E) › 5 AAC 27.333 - Wild herring spawn on kelp harvest specifications and operations for Prince William Sound Area

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) A person may take wild herring spawn on
				  kelp (not in pounds) without a permit issued by the commissioner and only under
				  the following conditions:
(1) herring spawn
				  may not be taken on imported or transplanted aquatic plants or on any other
				  substrate, except for kelp in its natural occurring state;
(2) kelp plants may be taken only by a
				  handheld, unpowered blade cutting device;
(3) except for fucus and hair kelp, kelp
				  plant blades must be cut at least four inches above the stipe (stem);
(4) kelp plants used to take herring spawn
				  may not be suspended from lines, frames, or other man-made devices.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 27 - Herring Fishery › Article 6 - Prince William Sound Area (Registration Area E) › 5 AAC 27.350 - Waters closed to herring fishing in Prince William Sound Area

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) From July 1
				  through October 31, herring may not be taken in waters closed to salmon fishing
				  by 5 AAC 24.350 and
				  5 AAC 39.290.
(b) Repealed 4/24/2003.
Authority:
AS
						16.05.251