Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 3 - Game › Chapter 92 - Statewide Provisions › Article 6 - Possession and Transportation › 5 AAC 92.130 - Restrictions to bag limit

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Unless
				  otherwise provided in 5 AAC 84 - 5 AAC 92, no person may take a species of game
				  in any unit or portion of a unit if that person's total statewide take of that
				  species already equals or exceeds the bag limit for that species in that unit
				  or portion of a unit, except as provided in (d) of this section.
(b) The bag limit specified for a subsistence
				  season for a species and the bag limit set for a general season for the same
				  species are not separate and distinct. This means that a person who has taken
				  the bag limit for a particular species under a subsistence season may not after
				  that take any additional animals of that species under the bag limit specified
				  for a general season.
(c) A bag
				  limit applies to a regulatory year unless another time period is specified in
				  the bag limit.
(d) The bag limit
				  specified for a trapping season for a species and the bag limit set for a
				  hunting season for the same species are separate and distinct. This means that
				  a person who has taken a bag limit for a particular species under a trapping
				  season may take additional animals under the bag limit specified for a hunting
				  season, or vice versa.
(e) A hunter
				  who is under 10 years of age may take big game only under the direct, immediate
				  supervision of a licensed hunter who is at least 18 years of age. The
				  supervising hunter is responsible for ensuring that all legal requirements are
				  met. The big game animal taken will count against the supervising hunter's bag
				  limit. This section does not relieve an individual from complying with big game
				  tag requirements, but does require a supervising hunter to validate the
				  hunter's harvest ticket, or permit, in accordance with
				  5 AAC 92.010, immediately following the taking of big
				  game under this section.
(f) In
				  Units 1 - 5 and Unit 8, a black or brown bear wounded by a person counts
				  against that person's bag limit for the regulatory year in which the bear is
				  taken. However, in Units 1 - 5 and Unit 8, a brown bear wounded by a person
				  does not count against that person's one bear every four regulatory years bag
				  limit established in
				  5 AAC 92.132.
(g) In Unit 8, an elk wounded by a person
				  counts against that person's bag limit for the regulatory year in which the elk
				  is taken.
(h) In this section,
				  "wounded" means there is sign of blood or other sign that the animal has been
				  hit by a hunting projectile.
(i) A
				  big game animal, except deer in an area where the bag limit is one, taken under
				  a youth hunt, will count as the bag limit of both the child and the supervising
				  hunter who accompanies the child; only the child may shoot the big game animal,
				  except that the accompanying adult may shoot the animal only to prevent the
				  animal from escaping after having been wounded by the child. The supervising
				  hunter is responsible for ensuring that all legal requirements are
				  met.
(j) Repealed
				  7/1/2017.
At its November 9 - 11, 1992, January 19 - 28, 1993
						meeting, the Board of Game readopted 5 AAC 92.130 in its entirety, without
						change, under ch. 1, SSSLA 1992 (the 1992 subsistence law), which repealed and
						reenacted
						AS
						16.05.258.
Authority:
AS
						16.05.255
AS
						16.05.258