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Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 18 - Kodiak Area › Article 1 - Description of Area › 5 AAC 18.001 - Application of this chapter

Current through May 31, 2024
Requirements set out in this chapter apply to commercial
					 fishing only, unless otherwise specified. Subsistence, personal use, and sport
					 fishing regulations affecting commercial fishing vessels or affecting any other
					 commercial fishing activity are set out in the subsistence fishing regulations
					 in 5 AAC 01 and 5 AAC 02, personal use fishing regulations in 5 AAC 77, and
					 sport fishing regulations in 5 AAC 64 and 5 AAC 75.
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 18 - Kodiak Area › Article 1 - Description of Area › 5 AAC 18.100 - Description of area

Current through May 31, 2024
The Kodiak Area includes all waters of Alaska south of a
					 line extending from Cape Douglas (58° 51.10' N. lat.,) west of 150° W.
					 long., north of 55° 30.00' N. lat., and north and east of a line extending
					 135° southeast for three miles from a point near Kilokak Rocks at 57°
					 10.34' N. lat., 156° 20.22' W. long. (the longitude of the southern
					 entrance of Imuya Bay), then due south.
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 18 - Kodiak Area › Article 2 - Fishing Districts and Sections › 5 AAC 18.206 - Use of global positioning system (GPS)

Current through May 31, 2024
In the Kodiak Area, boundaries, lines, and coordinates are
					 identified with the global positioning system (GPS). If the global positioning
					 system is not operating, the boundaries, lines, and coordinates are as
					 identified by ADF&G regulatory markers.
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 18 - Kodiak Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 18.310 - Fishing seasons

Current through May 31, 2024
Salmon may be taken only from June 1 through October
					 31.
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 18 - Kodiak Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 18.320 - Fishing periods

Current through May 31, 2024
Salmon may be taken only during fishing periods established
					 by emergency order.
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 18 - Kodiak Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 18.330 - Gear

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) In the Afognak District, salmon may be
				  taken only by purse seines and beach seines.
(b) In the Northwest Kodiak District, salmon
				  may be taken only by purse seines and beach seines, except that in the Central
				  Section, salmon may also be taken by set gillnets.
(c) In the Southwest Kodiak District, salmon
				  may be taken only by purse seines and beach seines.
(d) In the Alitak District,
(1) in the Humpy-Deadman and Cape Alitak
				  Sections, salmon may be taken by purse seines and beach seines only;
(2) in the Alitak Bay, Moser Bay, Olga Bay,
				  Dog Salmon Flats, Outer and Inner Upper Station, and Outer and Inner Akalura
				  Sections, salmon may be taken by set gillnets only, except that after September
				  4, salmon may be taken also by purse seines and beach seines.
(3) notwithstanding (d)(1) of this section,
				  salmon may be taken in the Humpy-Deadman and Cape Alitak Sections north of a
				  line from Cape Trinity at 56° 44.80' N. lat., 154° 08.90' W. long., to
				  Cape Alitak at 56° 50.58' N. lat., 154° 18.50' W. long., by set gillnet
				  gear after September 4;
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 18 - Kodiak Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 18.331 - Gillnet specifications and operations

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Except as
				  provided in (e) of this section, a CFEC permit holder may operate no more than
				  two set gillnets with no more than 150 fathoms of set gillnet in the aggregate,
				  except that in the Central Section of the Northwest Kodiak District, the
				  aggregate length may be no more than 175 fathoms.
(b) Seine webbing no greater than 3.75 inch
				  mesh size, or polypropylene webbing 3 millimeters or greater in diameter, may
				  be used on the shoreward end of a set gillnet and the length of the seine
				  webbing used may extend no more than 50 fathoms seaward of the beach at the
				  lowest tide of the current day, except that in the Alitak District,
(1) in the Alitak Bay, Moser Bay, Olga Bay,
				  Dog Salmon Flats, Inner Akalura, Outer Akalura, Outer Upper Station, and Inner
				  Upper Station Sections, seine webbing may be used only from the high tide mark
				  seaward, and no portion of the seine web may be in water deeper than five feet
				  at the lowest tide of the current day;
(2) in the Alitak Bay Section and that
				  portion of the Moser Bay Section south of a line from Bun Point to the opposite
				  shore at 56° 57.95' N. lat., 154° 08.70' W. long., seine webbing may be
				  used only from the high tide mark seaward, and must meet one of the following
				  requirements:
(A) no portion of the seine web
				  may be in water deeper than five feet at the lowest tide of the current day;
				  or
(B) the length of seine webbing
				  used may be no more than 20 fathoms per set.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 18 - Kodiak Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 18.332 - Seine specifications and operations

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) A purse seine
				  or hand purse seine may not be less than 100 fathoms or more than 250 fathoms
				  in length. A seine may not be less than 100 meshes or more than 325 meshes in
				  depth. At least 50 fathoms of a seine must be 150 meshes in depth.
(b) One lead no more than 100 fathoms in
				  length may be used with each purse seine or hand purse seine. The aggregate
				  length of seine and lead may not exceed 250 fathoms. Leads must be removed from
				  the water within two hours after a season or fishing period closure. Each lead
				  must have at each end a buoy, cork, or float plainly and legibly marked with
				  the operator's five-digit CFEC permit serial number.
(c) Beach seines no less than 100 fathoms nor
				  more than 225 fathoms in length may be used.
(d) Beach seines may not be less than 100
				  meshes in depth.
(e) When an anchor
				  is used during the operation of a purse seine, hand purse seine, or beach
				  seine, only the shoreward end of the seine or lead may be anchored; the seine
				  shall be attached to the licensed vessel, and the vessel may not be anchored,
				  except that, in the operation of a beach seine, an additional anchor, used to
				  anchor the vessel to a beach, may be used only while retrieving the beach
				  seine.
(f) In the Mainland
				  District, it is unlawful to take salmon with the assistance of an aircraft
				  directing the operation of the seine gear.
(g) Seine mesh size may not be more than
				  seven inches.
(h) A ring, strap,
				  purse, or tow line may be attached to the corkline, ribline, or leadline of a
				  beach seine. Hydraulic power may be used to set, retrieve, or purse a beach
				  seine. A beach seine must be set from, and hauled to, a beach, or to a vessel
				  anchored to a beach. One end of a beach seine must remain on a beach above the
				  water surface at all times during the set.
(i) A beach seine has ceased fishing when all
				  of the leadline is out of the water.
(j) Overlapping panels of net web may not be
				  used in seine leads.
(k)
				  Notwithstanding
				  5 AAC 39.240, a CFEC purse seine salmon permit holder
				  may use a registered salmon seine fishing vessel, when it has seine gear on
				  board, to tow another registered salmon seine fishing vessel with seine gear on
				  board if the permit holder for the vessel being towed is on board one of the
				  vessels.
(l) A purse seine is
				  considered to have ceased fishing as specified in
				  5 AAC 39.260(c).
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 18 - Kodiak Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 18.335 - Minimum distance between units of gear

Current through May 31, 2024
No part of a set gillnet may be set or operated within 900
					 feet of any part of another set gillnet, or be attached to the beach within 900
					 feet of another net, except that in the Dog Salmon Flats, Outer Upper Station,
					 Inner Upper Station, Outer Akalura, Humpy-Deadman Section as described in
					 5 AAC 18.330(d)(4), and Inner Akalura
					 Sections there is no minimum distance between units of set gillnet
					 gear.
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 18 - Kodiak Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 18.337 - Purse seine practice sets

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) From May 25
				  through October 31, purse seine vessels may make practice purse seine sets in
				  the locations specified in (b) of this section. The sets may be made only
				  during daylight hours. All fish caught shall be returned to the water without
				  further harm.
(b) Purse seine
				  practice sets may be made only in the following locations:
(1) inside Lazy Bay west of 154º 13.50'
				  W. long.;
(2) inside Larson Bay
				  west of 153º 59.00' W. long.;
(3) Kodiak, within one-half mile of the
				  Sealand dock;
(4) Old Harbor,
				  within one-half mile of the entrance to the boat harbor;
(5) Port Bailey, within one-half mile of the
				  Port Bailey Cannery dock;
(6)
				  Northeast Arm Uganik, within one-half mile of the Uganik Cannery
				  dock.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 18 - Kodiak Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 18.350 - Closed waters

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Salmon may not be taken in the following
				  waters:
(1) Alitak District:
(A) Humpy Cove: all waters east of a line
				  from the northern entrance of Seaborg Cove at 56° 53.55' N. lat., 153°
				  58.95' W. long., to a point approximately two and three-quarters miles
				  northeast of Hawk Point at 56° 50.95' N. lat., 154° 03.80' W.
				  long.;
(B) Olga Bay:
(i) Upper Olga Bay: north and west of a line
				  from Stockholm Point at 57° 07.64' N. lat., 154° 06.70' W. long., east
				  to the opposite shore at 57° 07.64' N. lat., 154° 05.00' W.
				  long.;
(ii) Horse Marine: northeast
				  of a line from 57° 06.38' N. lat., 154° 00.00' W. long., to 57°
				  07.53' N. lat., 154° 03.00' W. long.;
(iii) Olga Narrows: south of 57° 04.36'
				  N. lat., and north of a line from 57° 01.37' N. lat., 154° 08.70' W.
				  long., running east to a point 75 fathoms from the mean low tide mark to
				  57° 00.12' N. lat., 154° 08.08' W. long.;
(C) Portage Bay:
(i) Southeast Arm: east of the longitude of
				  Bert Point (153° 51.50' W. long.);
(ii) Sulua Bay: north of 56° 58.54' N.
				  lat.;
(D) Deadman Bay:
				  east of 153° 51.30' W. long.;
(E) Sukhoi Lagoon: in the bay and the
				  lagoon;
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 18 - Kodiak Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 18.355 - Reporting requirements

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The operator of a floating salmon
				  processing vessel or tender, or a shorebased processing operation, and a
				  company employing aircraft used for transporting salmon, shall report in
				  person, or by radio or telephone, to a local representative of the department
				  located in the management area of intended operation before the start of
				  processing or buying operations. The report must include the location and the
				  date of intended operation, and identify and describe each vessel or other
				  method of transport employed in hauling or processing salmon.
(b) A commercial fisherman shall report, on
				  an ADF&G fish ticket at the time of landing, the number of salmon taken but
				  not sold.
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 18 - Kodiak Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 18.361 - Alitak District Salmon Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The department
				  shall manage the commercial salmon fishery in the Alitak District in accordance
				  with the management plan set out in this section. The goal of the management
				  plan is to achieve escapement and harvest objectives of salmon stocks returning
				  to the Humpy-Deadman Section systems, and the Horse Marine, Frazer, Akalura,
				  and Upper Station systems.
(1) repealed
				  4/15/2017;
(2) repealed
				  4/15/2017;
(3) repealed
				  4/15/2017;
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 18 - Kodiak Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 18.362 - Westside Kodiak Salmon Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The goal of the
				  Westside Kodiak Management Plan is to achieve escapement and harvest objectives
				  of sockeye salmon returning to the Karluk, Ayakulik, and other Westside minor
				  sockeye salmon systems, and of pink, chum, and coho salmon returning to systems
				  in the Southwest Afognak, Central, North Cape, Anton Larsen Bay, Sharatin Bay,
				  Kizhuyak Bay, Terror Bay, Inner Uganik Bay, Spiridon Bay, Zachar Bay, Uyak Bay,
				  Outer Karluk, Inner Karluk, Sturgeon Bay, Halibut Bay, Outer Ayakulik, and
				  Inner Ayakulik Sections. It is the intent of the board that salmon bound to
				  these systems be harvested to the extent possible by the traditional fisheries
				  located in all 17 sections. The department shall manage the Northwest Kodiak
				  and the Southwest Kodiak Districts and the Southwest Afognak Section in
				  accordance with the guidelines set out in this plan.
(b) The Central and North Cape Sections must
				  be managed
(1) from June 1 through
				  approximately June 15, as a mixed-stock fishery directed on early-run sockeye
				  salmon returning to Karluk, Ayakulik, and Olga Bay systems; the commissioner
				  shall open, by emergency order, at least two commercial test fishing periods of
				  33 hours in length;
(2) from
				  approximately June 16 through July 5, based on early-run sockeye salmon
				  returning to the Karluk system;
(3)
				  from approximately July 6 through August 15, based on pink salmon returning to
				  the major pink salmon systems in the Northwest Kodiak District, or based on
				  pink salmon returning to the Karluk system;
(4) from approximately August 16 through
				  August 24, based on pink salmon returning to the Northwest Kodiak District and
				  on late-run sockeye salmon returning to the Karluk system;
(5) from approximately August 25 through
				  September 5, based on late-run sockeye salmon returning to the Karluk system;
				  and
(6) after approximately
				  September 5, based on late-run sockeye salmon returning to the Karluk system
				  and coho salmon returning to the Northwest Kodiak District.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 18 - Kodiak Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 18.364 - Crescent Lake Coho Salmon Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) From July 15
				  through October 31, the department shall manage the commercial, sport, and
				  subsistence fisheries in Settler Cove to provide for full utilization of the
				  enhanced stock of coho salmon returning to Crescent Lake in accordance with the
				  Crescent Lake Coho Salmon Management Plan in this section.
(b) Sport and subsistence fisheries are
				  allowed in all waters of Settler Cove consistent with 5 AAC 64 and 5 AAC
				  01.
(c) The department may open, by
				  emergency order, those waters of Settler Cove, between the causeway and a line
				  from the seaward end of the Port Lions breakwater to a department marker
				  located directly across Settler Cove from the breakwater, to the commercial
				  taking of salmon only as follows:
(1) the
				  department may not allow the commercial taking of salmon before September 10;
				  and
(2) before opening the fishery,
				  the department shall determine that 500 or more coho salmon are available in
				  Settler Cove for harvest.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 18 - Kodiak Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 18.366 - Spiridon Bay Sockeye Salmon Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The department
				  shall manage the commercial, sport, and subsistence fisheries in Spiridon Bay
				  to provide for full use of the enhanced stock of sockeye salmon returning to
				  Spiridon Lake.
(b) The purpose of
				  the Spiridon Bay harvest strategy is to allow the orderly harvest of sockeye
				  salmon returning to Telrod Cove from the Spiridon Lake enhancement project
				  while providing adequate protection for local natural salmon stocks returning
				  to other streams of the bay. The intent of the enhancement project is for the
				  harvest of returning enhanced salmon to occur in traditional commercial fishing
				  areas of the Northwest Kodiak District during openings directed at harvesting
				  Karluk sockeye and westside pink and chum salmon stocks. Throughout the season,
				  fishing time in the Spiridon Bay Special Harvest Area may be restricted in
				  order to meet cost recovery goals for enhanced sockeye salmon.
(c) The Spiridon Bay Special Harvest Area
				  consists of all waters of Telrod Cove north of a line extending from Stream
				  Point at 57° 39.00' N. lat., 153° 38.50' W. long., to a point at
				  57° 38.80' N. lat., 153° 37.70' W. long.
(d) Only purse seines and beach seines may be
				  operated in the Spiridon Bay Special Harvest Area.
(e) Repealed 3/16/96.
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 18 - Kodiak Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 18.367 - Eastside Kodiak Salmon Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The goal of the
				  Eastside Kodiak Salmon Management Plan is to achieve escapement and harvest
				  objectives for sockeye, pink, chum, and coho salmon returning to natural
				  spawning systems located in the Northeast Kodiak and Eastside Kodiak Districts.
				  The commissioner shall open and close, by emergency order, commercial fishing
				  periods under this plan.
(b) In the
				  Northeast Kodiak District, the
(1) Outer
				  Chiniak Bay Section shall remain closed until July 6; from July 6 through
				  August 24, fishing opportunities shall be based on the abundance of local and
				  mixed Kodiak pink salmon; from August 25 through September 5, fishing
				  opportunities shall be based on runs of local pink and coho salmon; after
				  September 5, fishing opportunities shall be based on the abundance of local
				  coho salmon;
(2) Inner Chiniak Bay
				  Section shall remain closed until July 6; from July 6 through August 24,
				  fishing opportunities shall be based on the abundance of local and mixed Kodiak
				  pink and chum salmon; from August 25 through September 5, fishing opportunities
				  shall be based on the abundance of local pink and coho salmon; after September
				  5, fishing opportunities shall be based on the abundance of local coho
				  salmon;
(3) Buskin River Section
				  shall remain closed until July 6; from July 6 through July 15, fishing
				  opportunities shall be based on the abundance of local pink salmon and Buskin
				  Lake sockeye salmon; from July 16 through August 24, fishing opportunities
				  shall be based on the abundance of local pink and chum salmon; from August 25
				  through September 5, fishing opportunities shall be based on the abundance of
				  local pink and coho salmon; after September 5, fishing opportunities shall be
				  based on the abundance of local coho salmon;
(4) Monashka/Mill Bay Section shall remain
				  closed until July 6; from July 6 through August 24, fishing opportunities shall
				  be based on the abundance of local and mixed Kodiak pink salmon; from August 25
				  through September 5, fishing opportunities shall be based on the abundance of
				  local pink and coho salmon; after September 5, fishing opportunities shall be
				  based on the abundance of local coho salmon.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 18 - Kodiak Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 18.375 - Foul Bay Terminal Harvest Area (Repealed)

Current through May 31, 2024
As of Register 174, July 2005, the substance of former
						5 AAC 18.375 appears in
						5 AAC 40.085 to reflect the change in designation of the
						Foul Bay Terminal Harvest Area to the Foul Bay Special Harvest
						Area.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 18 - Kodiak Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 18.376 - Waterfall Bay Terminal Harvest Area (Repealed)

Current through May 31, 2024
As of Register 174, July 2005, the substance of former
						5 AAC 18.376 appears in
						5 AAC 40.085 to reflect the change in designation of the
						Waterfall Bay Terminal Harvest Area to the Waterfall Bay Special Harvest
						Area.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 18 - Kodiak Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 18.377 - Settler Cove Terminal Harvest Area (Repealed)

Current through May 31, 2024
As of Register 174, July 2005, the substance of former
						5 AAC 18.377 appears in
						5 AAC 40.085 to reflect the change in designation of the
						Settler Cove Terminal Harvest Area to the Settler Cove Special Harvest
						Area.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 18 - Kodiak Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 18.378 - Malina Creek Terminal Harvest Area

Current through May 31, 2024
The Malina Creek Terminal Harvest Area consists of all
					 waters within one-half nautical mile of the beach near the terminus of Malina
					 Creek between 58º 10.00' N. lat. and 58º 11.00' 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 18 - Kodiak Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 18.392 - Net pens and other devices for holding live, commercially-caught salmon before processing in the Kodiak Area

Current through May 31, 2024
In the Kodiak Area, a net pen or other device may be used
					 to hold live salmon before processing, only under the conditions specified in a
					 commissioner's permit.
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 18 - Kodiak Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 18.394 - Possession of steelhead

Current through May 31, 2024
Steelhead taken incidental to commercial salmon fishing in
					 Karluk Lagoon must be returned to the water unharmed.
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 18 - Kodiak Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 18.395 - Retention of king salmon taken in a commercial fishery

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) In the Inner
				  Karluk, Outer Karluk, Inner Ayakulik, and Outer Ayakulik Sections, if the
				  department determines that the king salmon runs will not meet seasonal
				  escapement goals, the commissioner may, by emergency order, close the
				  commercial salmon fishery and immediately reopen the commercial salmon fishery,
				  during which king salmon 28 inches or greater in length may not be retained,
				  and king salmon 28 inches or greater in length taken incidentally in the
				  commercial salmon fishery must be returned to the water unharmed.
(b) Before July 30, if the department
				  projects that the Karluk River biological escapement goal will not be met and
				  the sport fishery is restricted in the Karluk watershed to the nonretention of
				  king salmon or the sport fishery for king salmon is closed, the commissioner
				  shall, by emergency order, close the commercial salmon seine fishery season in
				  the waters south of a line from Cape Kuliuk at 57° 48.20' N. lat., to the
				  southern boundary of the Inner Ayakulik Section by the latitude of Low Cape,
				  and immediately reopen a commercial salmon seine fishery season during which
(1) king salmon 28 inches or greater in
				  length may not be retained; and
(2)
				  king salmon 28 inches or greater in length taken incidentally must be returned
				  to the water unharmed.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 21 - Cook Inlet Area › Article 1 - Description of Area › 5 AAC 21.001 - Application of this chapter

Current through May 31, 2024
Requirements set out in this chapter apply to commercial
					 fishing only, unless otherwise specified. Subsistence, personal use, and sport
					 fishing regulations affecting commercial fishing vessels or affecting any other
					 commercial fishing activity are set out in the subsistence fishing regulations
					 in 5 AAC 01 and 5 AAC 02, personal use fishing regulations in 5 AAC 77, and
					 sport fishing regulations in 5 AAC 56 - 5 AAC 62 and 5 AAC
					 75.
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 21 - Cook Inlet Area › Article 1 - Description of Area › 5 AAC 21.100 - Description of area

Current through May 31, 2024
The Cook Inlet Area includes 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 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 21 - Cook Inlet Area › Article 2 - Fishing Districts, Subdistricts, and Sections › 5 AAC 21.200 - Fishing districts, subdistricts, and sections

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Northern
				  District: north of a line extending from Boulder Point at 60° 46.39' N.
				  lat., to Shell Platform C, then to a point on the west shore at 60° 46.39'
				  N. lat.
(1) Eastern Subdistrict: all waters
				  south of the latitude of Point Possession, north of the latitude of Boulder
				  Point, and east of a line from Shell Platform C to a point at 61° 02.67' N.
				  lat., 150° 40.00' W. long.;
(2)
				  General Subdistrict: all waters of the Northern District not specified in (1)
				  of this subsection.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 21 - Cook Inlet Area › Article 2 - Fishing Districts, Subdistricts, and Sections › 5 AAC 21.205 - Seaward boundary of Kamishak Bay District

Current through May 31, 2024
The seaward boundary of the Kamishak Bay District is three
					 nautical miles seaward from the shoreline between a point on the west shore of
					 Cook Inlet at approximately 59° 46.15' N. lat., 153° 00.70' W. long.,
					 and Cape Douglas at approximately 58° 51.10' N. lat., 153° 15.07' W.
					 long., including a line three nautical miles seaward from the shorelines of
					 Augustine Island and Shaw Island, and including the line demarking all state
					 waters shown on National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Nautical Chart Number 16640
, 23
rd
Edition,
					 July 5, 1997, hereby adopted by reference.
Copies of the NOAA chart adopted by reference in
						5 AAC 21.205 can be obtained by writing to NOAA NOS,
						Pacific Hydrographic Branch, 7600 Sand Point Way, N.E., Seattle Washington
						98115-0070. In addition, the chart is available for inspection at the
						Lieutenant Governor's Office in Juneau,
						Alaska.
Authority:
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						16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 21 - Cook Inlet Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 21.320 - Weekly fishing periods

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) In the set gillnet fishery,
(1) salmon may be taken in the Northern
				  District from 7:00 a.m. Monday until 7:00 p.m. Monday and from 7:00 a.m.
				  Thursday until 7:00 p.m. Thursday;
(2) salmon may be taken in the Central
				  District from 7:00 a.m. Monday until 7:00 p.m. Monday and from 7:00 a.m.
				  Thursday until 7:00 p.m. Thursday;
(A) salmon
				  may be taken in the Chinitna Bay Subdistrict from 7:00 a.m. Monday until 7:00
				  p.m. Monday and from 7:00 a.m. Thursday until 7:00 p.m. Thursday;
(B) salmon may be taken in the Western
				  Subdistrict from 7:00 a.m. Monday until 7:00 p.m. Monday and from 7:00 a.m.
				  Thursday until 7:00 p.m. Thursday;
(C) salmon may be takeen in the Kustatan
				  Subdistrict from 7:00 a.m. Monday until 7:00 p.m. Monday and from 7:00 a.m.
				  Thursday until 7:00 p.m. Thursday;
(D) salmon may be taken in the Kalgin Island
				  Subdistrict from 7:00 a.m. Monday until 7:00 p.m. Monday and from 7:00 a.m.
				  Thursday until 7:00 p.m. Thursday;
(E) salmon may be taken in the Upper
				  Subdistrict from 7:00 a.m. Monday until 7:00 p.m. Monday and from 7:00 a.m.
				  Thursday until 7:00 p.m. Thursday;
(F) repelaed
(3) salmon may be taken in the Southern
				  District 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;
(4) the fishing periods set forth in (1) -
				  (3) of this subsection may be modified by emergency order.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 21 - Cook Inlet Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 21.331 - Gillnet specifications and operations

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) No person may
				  operate a set gillnet that has not been intentionally set, staked, anchored or
				  otherwise fixed, and no person may operate a drift gillnet that has been
				  intentionally set, staked, anchored or otherwise fixed.
(b) The maximum mesh size for gillnets is six
				  inches.
(c) Except as allowed under
				  5 AAC 21.333, a drift gillnet may not be more than 150
				  fathoms in length and 45 meshes in depth. No person may operate more than one
				  drift gillnet.
(d) A set gillnet
				  may not be more than 35 fathoms in length and 45 meshes in depth. South of the
				  latitude of Anchor Point, 30 fathoms of seine webbing may be used on the shore
				  between high and low water levels. A person may not operate more than four set
				  gillnets with more than 105 fathoms of set gillnet in the aggregate, except
				  that
(1) on Fire Island a person may operate
				  more than four set gillnets, but the aggregate length of the nets may not
				  exceed 105 fathoms;
(2) repealed
				  6/11/2005.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 21 - Cook Inlet Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 21.332 - Seine specifications and operation

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Purse seines,
				  hand purse seines, and beach seines may not be less than 90 fathoms in length
				  and 100 meshes in depth, nor more than 250 fathoms in length and 335 meshes in
				  depth. Detachable or loose leads are not permitted.
(b) A seine vessel may tow another seine
				  vessel as long as each vessel has no more than one legal limit of gear on
				  board.
(c) A purse seine is
				  considered to have ceased fishing as specified in
				  5 AAC 39.260(c)
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Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 21 - Cook Inlet Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 21.333 - Requirements and specifications for use of 200 fathoms of drift gillnet in the Cook Inlet Area

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Except as specified in (e)- (g) of this
				  section, two Cook Inlet drift gillnet CFEC permit holders may concurrently fish
				  from the same vessel and jointly operate up to 200 fathoms of drift gillnet
				  gear, and a person holding two Cook Inlet drift gillnet CFEC permits may
				  operate up to 200 fathoms of drift gillnet gear, under this section.
(b) Repealed 5/18/2014.
(c) When two Cook Inlet drift gillnet CFEC
				  permit holders fish from the same vessel and jointly operate additional drift
				  gillnet gear, and when a person holding two Cook Inlet drift gillnet CFEC
				  permits operates additional drift gillnet gear, the vessel must display its
				  ADF& G permanent license plate number followed by the letter "D" to
				  identify the vessel as a dual permit vessel. The letter "D" must be removed or
				  covered when the vessel is operating with only one drift gillnet CFEC permit on
				  board the vessel. The permanent license plate number and letters must be
				  displayed
(1) in letters and numerals 12
				  inches high with lines at least one inch wide;
(2) in a color that contrasts with the
				  background;
(3) on both sides of
				  the hull; and
(4) in a manner that
				  is plainly visible at all times when the vessel is being operated.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 21 - Cook Inlet Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 21.334 - Identification of gear

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Each drift gillnet in operation must have
				  a bright red keg or buoy at one end plainly and legibly marked with the
				  permanent vessel license plate (ADF&G) number of the vessel operating the
				  gear and the initials of the operator.
(b) Markers described in
				  5 AAC 39.280(a) are not required for
				  set gillnets.
(c) Buoy
				  identification requirements for set gillnets in the Upper Subdistrict of the
				  Central District are as follows:
(1) each set
				  gillnet must have an identification tag issued by the department; the tag must
				  be placed on a "trailer" buoy attached to the set gillnet; the tags will be
				  issued before each fishing season and will be sequentially numbered and colored
				  for each year;
(2) not more than
				  three tags will be issued to a permit holder operating set gillnets 35 fathoms
				  in length; not more than four tags will be issued to a permit holder operating
				  set gillnets less than 30 fathoms in length;
(3) tags lost during the season may be
				  replaced if the permit holder submits a sworn statement or affidavit describing
				  how the tags were lost and listing the numbers of the lost tags; replacement
				  tag numbers will be preceded by the letter "R";
(4) buoy sticker identification tags and
				  replacement tags are available for purchase on the department's website and may
				  also be obtained at the ADF&G office in Soldotna from Monday through Friday
				  from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., except on a state holiday;
(5) the permit holder must obtain new tags
				  before each fishing season;
(6)
				  repealed 4/7/93;
(7) a CFEC permit
				  holder may register with the department to fish in a group with other CFEC
				  permit holders at the time the permit holders purchase buoy stickers; all
				  permit holders in the group shall register at the same time and place; any
				  trailer buoy with a buoy sticker attached registered to that group may be
				  attached to any CFEC permit holder's set gillnet that is also registered to
				  that group to comply with the identification requirements under (1) of this
				  subsection.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 21 - Cook Inlet Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 21.335 - Minimum distance between units of gear

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) No part of a
				  commercial drift gillnet or set gillnet may be set or operated within 600 feet
				  of any part of another commercial set gillnet.
(b) Repealed 7/21/91.
(c) In the Chinitna Bay Subdistrict, no part
				  of a purse seine may be placed or operated within 600 feet of a drift or set
				  gillnet.
(d) Except as specified in
				  (c) of this section, no part of a seine may be operated within 300 feet of a
				  set gillnet except in the zone outside of the offshore end of a set
				  gillnet.
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Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 21 - Cook Inlet Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 21.345 - Registration

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) A CFEC set gillnet permit holder shall
				  register for a registration area described in (b) of this section before
				  fishing, by completing a registration form available from the department and
				  returning the form in person to the department office in Anchorage, Soldotna,
				  or Homer, by mail to the department office in Soldotna, or by completing and
				  submitting to the denartment an electronic registration form available on the
				  department's website. A CFEC set gillnet permit holder may not fish in more
				  than one registration area during a registration year.
(b) Registration areas are as follows:
(1) Northern District Area: as described in
				  5 AAC 21.200(a);
(2) Upper Subdistrict Area: as described in
				  5 AAC 21.200(b) (2);
(3) Greater Cook Inlet Area: all waters of
				  the Cook Inlet Area open to set gillnet fishing as described in
				  5 AAC 21.200(b)(1), (b)(3) - (6), and
				  (d).
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 21 - Cook Inlet Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 21.350 - Closed waters

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Salmon may not
				  be taken in any of the waters listed in this section.
(b) Central District
(1) within one statute mile of the terminus
				  of the following salmon streams:
(A) Deep
				  Creek;
(B) Stariski
				  Creek;
(C) Anchor
				  River,
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 21 - Cook Inlet Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 21.353 - Central District Drift Gillnet Fishery Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The purpose of
				  this management plan is to ensure adequate escapement and a harvestable surplus
				  of salmon into the Northern District drainages and to provide management
				  guidelines to the department. The department shall manage the commercial drift
				  gillnet fishery to minimize the harvest of Northern District salmon and Kenai
				  River coho salmon in order to provide all users with a reasonable opportunity
				  to harvest these salmon stocks over the entire run, as measured by the
				  frequency of inriver restrictions. The department shall manage the Central
				  District commercial drift gillnet fishery as described in this
				  section.
(b) The regular weekly
				  fishing periods are as described in
				  5 AAC 21.320(b). The fishing season
				  will open the third Monday in June or June 19, whichever is later.
(c) From July 9 through July 15,
(1) fishing during the first regular fishing
				  period and second regular fishing period is restricted to the Expanded Kenai
				  and Expanded Kasilof Sections of the Upper Subdistict and Drift Gillnet Area
				  1;
(2) at run strengths greater
				  than 2,300,000 sockeye salmon to the Kenai River, the commissioner may, by
				  emergency order, open one additional 12-hour fishing period in the Expanded
				  Kenai and Expanded Kasilof Sections of the Upper Subdistrict and Drift Gillnet
				  Area 1;
(3) additional fishing time
				  under this subsection is allowed only in the Expanded Kenai and Expanded
				  Kasilof Sections of the Upper Subdistrict.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 21 - Cook Inlet Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 21.354 - Cook Inlet Pink Salmon Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The purpose of
				  this management plan is to allow for the harvest of surplus pink salmon in the
				  Upper Subdistrict for set gillnet and drift gillnet gear. Notwithstanding
				  5 AAC 21.310(b) (2)(C)(iii), from
				  August 11 through August 15, the commissioner may, by emergency order, open a
				  commercial pink salmon fishery in an even-numbered year for up to two regular
				  12-hour fishing periods if the commissioner determines that the sockeye salmon
				  escapement goals in the Kenai and Kasilof Rivers are being achieved and coho
				  salmon run strength is sufficient to withstand additional harvest.
(b) The first pink salmon commercial fishing
				  period will occur only if, during the regular fishing periods from August 6
				  through August 10, the daily harvest of pink salmon in the Upper ·
				  Subdistrict set gillnet fishery exceeds 25,000 fish or the cumulative harvest
				  is 50,000 or more pink salmon. The second pink salmon commercial fishing period
				  will occur only if 25,000 or more pink salmon and no more than 2,500 coho
				  salmon are harvested in the Upper Subdistrict set gillnet fishery during the
				  first pink salmon commercial fishing period.
(c) During a pink salmon commercial fishing
				  period opened under this section, a
(1) set
				  gillnet may not have a mesh size greater than four and three-quarters inches;
				  and
(2) drift gillnet may not have
				  a mesh size greater than four and three-quarters inches, and fishing with drift
				  gillnet gear will only be opened in the areas defined in
				  5 AAC 21.200(b)(2)(B).
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 21 - Cook Inlet Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 21.355 - Reporting requirements

Current through May 31, 2024
A commercial salmon fisherman shall, at the time of
					 landing, report on an ADF&G fish ticket the number of salmon, by species,
					 taken but not sold.
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Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 21 - Cook Inlet Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 21.357 - Kenai River Coho Salmon Conservation Management Plan (Repealed)

Current through May 31, 2024
As of Register 174, July 2005, the substance of former
						5 AAC 21.357 appears in
						5 AAC 56.080.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 21 - Cook Inlet Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 21.358 - Northern District Salmon Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The purposes of
				  this management plan are to minimize the harvest of coho salmon bound for the
				  Northern District of upper Cook Inlet and to provide the department direction
				  for management of salmon stocks. The department shall manage the chum, pink,
				  and sockeye salmon stocks for commercial and inriver uses to provide an
				  opportunity to harvest these salmon resources based on abundance. The
				  department shall also manage the chum, pink, and sockeye salmon stocks to
				  minimize the harvest of Northern District coho salmon, to provide sport and
				  guided sport fisherman and other inriver users a reasonable opportunity to
				  harvest these salmon resources over the entire run, as measured by the
				  frequency of inriver restrictions, or as specified in this section and other
				  regulations.
(b) The department
				  shall manage the Northern District commercial salmon fisheries based on the
				  abundance of sockeye salmon counted through the weirs on Larson, Chelatna, and
				  Judd Lakes, and based on the abundance of king and coho salmon counted through
				  the Little Susitna River weir or other salmon abundance indices as the
				  department deems appropriate.
(c)
				  From July 20 through August 6, if the department's assessment of abundance
				  indicates that restrictions are necessary to achieve the escapement goal, the
				  commissioner may, by emergency order, close the commercial set gillnet fishery
				  in the Northern District and immediately reopen a season during which the
				  number of set gillnets that may be used is limited to the following options
				  selected at the discretion of the commissioner, except that from July 31
				  through August 6, the commissioner may allow the use of two set gillnets in
				  that portion of the General District south of the Susitna River:
(1) three set gillnets that are not more than
				  105 fathoms in aggregate length;
(2) two set gillnets that are not more than
				  70 fathoms in aggregate length;
(3)
				  one set gillnet that is not more than 35 fathoms in length.