Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 06 - Bristol Bay Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 06.370 - Registration and reregistration

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Before taking
				  salmon in the Bristol Bay Area, a CFEC salmon drift gillnet permit holder shall
				  register for a district described in
				  5 AAC 06.200. Before taking salmon in the Nushagak
				  District, a CFEC salmon set gillnet permit holder shall register for a
				  statistical area described in (l) of this section. A CFEC salmon drift gillnet
				  permit holder also shall register for the same district the drift gillnet
				  vessel that the permit holder will be operating. For the purposes of this
				  section, a CFEC salmon drift gillnet permit holder and a drift gillnet vessel
				  may be registered in only one district at a time and a CFEC salmon set gillnet
				  permit holder in the Nushagak District may be registered in only one
				  statistical area at a time. Initial district registration and statistical area
				  registration is accomplished by completing a registration form provided by the
				  department and returning the completed form to the department office in
				  Dillingham or King Salmon or electronically on the department's
				  website.
(b) Except when fishing as
				  a crewmember, a CFEC salmon drift gillnet permit holder intending to transfer
				  to and fish in a new district for which the permit holder is not registered
				  shall register the permit holder and the vessel that the permit holder will use
				  to take salmon for the new district at least 48 hours before fishing in the new
				  district. Reregistration is accomplished by the permit holder or the permit
				  holder's authorized agent completing a form provided by the department and
				  submitting the completed form, in person, to a local representative of the
				  department or electronically on the department's website. The 48-hour district
				  transfer notification period starts when the reregistration form is signed by
				  the local representative of the department or when the permit holder receives
				  the computerized acceptance notification. The drift gillnet permit holder and
				  the drift gillnet vessel may not fish in the original district during the
				  48-hour notification period. The notification period may be reduced by
				  commissioner's announcement. District reregistration is not required after 9:00
				  a.m. July 17, except in the Ugashik District, as specified in
				  5 AAC 06.366(d)(4), the Naknek-Kvichak
				  District, as specified in
				  5 AAC 06.360(g), and the Egegik
				  District, as specified in
				  5 AAC 06.359(f).
(c) After use of either drift gillnet or set
				  gillnet gear, use of the other type of gear is not permitted until 24 hours, or
				  a reduced period specified by commissioner's announcement, have elapsed
				  following notification to the department of the type of gear intended to be
				  used. After 9:00 a.m. July 17, changing to either drift gillnet or set gillnet
				  gear may be done without notification to the department of the type of gear
				  intended to be used.
(d)
				  Notification of a change in gear types may be made with the local
				  representative of the department, and may be accomplished in person or by radio
				  or through a designated representative of the fisherman. However, the 24-hour
				  notification period, or a reduced period specified by commissioner's
				  announcement, does not begin before the time that notification is received and
				  noted by the department.
(e)
				  Repealed 5/14/98.
(f) Except in the
				  Ugashik District, as specified in
				  5 AAC 06.366(d) (4), the Naknek-Kvichak
				  District, as specified in
				  5 AAC 06.360(g), and the Egegik
				  District, as specified in
				  5 AAC 06.359(f), the commissioner shall
				  waive, by announcement, the 48-hour district transfer notification period
				  required by this section when the midpoint of the escapement goal range for
				  sockeye salmon has been achieved for that district.
(g) Repealed 1/29/72.
(h) From June 1 through September 30, an Area
				  T CFEC salmon permit holder may use, to take salmon, only the vessel identified
				  on the permit, unless the permit holder has registered, in person, at the
				  department's King Salmon or Dillingham offices, to use another vessel. An Area
				  T CFEC salmon permit holder on board an unregistered vessel is presumed to have
				  been responsible for the salmon fishing operations of that vessel for that
				  year.
(i) An agent representing a
				  CFEC permit holder on matters of district registration and reregistration must
				  be annually authorized to do so on a form provided by the department. The form
				  must state that registration or to reregistration accomplished by a CFEC permit
				  holder's authorization agent does not waive the strict liability standard in
				  5 AAC 39.002 as it applies to the CFEC permit
				  holder.
(j) A person who receives
				  an emergency transfer (transferee) of a CFEC permit under
				  20 AAC 05.1740 may not register in
				  a district other than the district in which the CFEC permit holder is
				  registered when the emergency transfer occurs, unless the transferee has
				  complied with the 48-hour district transfer notification period required by
				  this section.
(k) Notwithstanding
				  (b) of this section, a CFEC permit holder and fishing vessel registered before
				  9:00 a.m. July 17 to fish in the
(1) Togiak
				  District may not take salmon or be used to take salmon in the Nushagak,
				  Naknek-Kvichak, Egegik, or Ugashik district from 9:00 a.m. June 1 until the
				  midpoint of the escapement goal range is achieved in the Togiak District as
				  specified by commissioner's announcement; if the midpoint of the escapement
				  goal is achieved before 9:00 a.m. July 17, the provisions set out in (b) of
				  this section arc in effect.
(2)
				  Nushagak, Naknek-Kvichak, Egegik, or Ugashik District may not take salmon or be
				  used to take salmon in the Togiak District from 9:00 a.m. June 1 until the
				  midpoint of the escapement goal range is achieved in the Togiak District as
				  specified by commissioner's announcement; if the midpoint of the escapement
				  goal is achieved before 9:00 a.m. July 17, the provisions set out in (b) of
				  this section are in effect.