Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 58 - Cook Inlet - Resurrection Bay Saltwater Area › 5 AAC 58.022 - Waters; seasons; bag, possession, annual, and size limits; and special provisions for Cook Inlet - Resurrection Bay Saltwater Area

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Except as
				provided in (b) and (c) of this section, and unless otherwise specified in this
				chapter, the following are the seasons, bag, possession, annual, and size
				limits, and special provisions for finfish and shellfish in the Cook Inlet -
				Resurrection Bay Saltwater Area:
(1) king
				salmon: may be taken from January 1 - December 31; bag and possession limit of
				two fish; no size limit; an annual harvest limit of five king salmon 20 inches
				or greater in length, except as provided in (c) of this section; a harvest
				record is required as specified in
				5 AAC 75.006; a king salmon 20 inches or greater in
				length that is removed from the water shall be retained and becomes a part of
				the bag limit of the person originally hooking it; a person may not remove a
				king salmon from the water before releasing the fish;
(2) salmon, other than king salmon: may be
				taken from January 1 - December 31; bag and possession limit of six fish, of
				which only three per day and in possession may be coho salmon; no size
				limit;
(3) rainbow/steelhead trout:
				no open season; may not be retained or possessed; all rainbow/steelhead trout
				caught must be released immediately; a person may not remove a
				rainbow/steelhead trout from the water;
(4) Arctic char/Dolly Varden: may be taken
				from January 1 - December 31; bag and possession limit of five fish; no size
				limit;
(5) halibut: may be taken
				only from February 1 - December 31; bag limit of two fish; possession limit of
				four fish; no size limit;
(6)
				rockfish: may be taken from January 1 - December 31; bag limit of three fish
				and six in possession, of which only one per day and two in possession may be
				nonpelagic rockfish as defined in
				5 AAC 75.995; no size limit;
(7) lingcod: may only be taken from July 1 -
				December 31; bag limit of one fish and possession limit of two fish; minimum
				size is 35 inches in length with the head attached or, if the head is removed,
				28 inches in length from the front of the dorsal fin to the top of the
				tail;
(8) sharks may be taken only
				as specified in
				5 AAC 75.012;
(9) king crab: no open season; may not be
				retained or possessed;
(10)
				Dungeness crab: no open season; may not be retained or possessed;
(11) Tanner crab: may be taken as follows:
(A) only from September 1 - March 15, except
				as specified under
				5 AAC 35.410(c); bag and possession
				limit of five male crab, annual limit of 40 male crab; minimum size is four and
				one-half inches across the widest part of the shell, including spines; a
				shellfish harvest recording form is required as specified in
				5 AAC 58.026;
(B) notwithstanding the provisions of
				(a)(11)(A) of this section, if the provisions of
				5 AAC 35.408(d) apply, then male Tanner
				crab may be taken only from October 1 through the last day of February; bag and
				possession limit of three male craba annual limit of 20 male crab; minimum size
				is four and one-half inches across the widest part of the shell, including
				spines; no more than one pot or ring net per person with a maximum of one pot
				or ring net per vessel; a shellfish harvest recording form is required as
				specified in
				5 AAC 58.026;
(12) littleneck clams and butter clams: no
				open season; may not be retained or possessed
(13) repealed 7/13/2012;
(14) razor clams: may be taken from January 1
				- December 31 as follows:
(A) from the mouth
				of the Kenai River to the southernmost tip of the Homer Spit: the bag limit is
				the first 60 clams taken or possessed; the possession limit is 120
				clams;
(B) on the remaining beaches
				of the Cook Inlet - Resurrection Bay Area: the bag and possession, limits are
				the first 10 gallons taken or possessed; all clams taken or possessed must must
				be retained;
(15) shrimp:
				no open season; may not be retained or possessed;
(16) other finfish and shellfish not
				specified in this subsection: from January 1 - December 31; no bag, possession,
				or size limits.