Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 35 - Tanner Crab Fishery › Article 10 - Registration Area J (Westward) › 5 AAC 35.556 - Landing requirements for Registration Area J

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Except as
				  provided in (b) of this section, the landing provisions of
				  5 AAC 35.031 apply to all districts within Registration
				  Area J.
(b) The landing provisions
				  of 5 AAC 35.031(c) (2) do not apply to the Bering Sea, Western
				  Aleutian, and Eastern Aleutian Districts of Area J.
(c) Notwithstanding
				  5 AAC 35.031(c), following the closure
				  of Registration Area J, or a portion of Registration Area J, to the taking of a
				  specified species of Tanner crab, a vessel validly registered for that area may
				  not have that species of Tanner crab on board the vessel in waters subject to
				  the jurisdiction of the state, if delivery is made
(1) in the district or subdistrict that the
				  Tanner crab were taken, or to a floating processor at St. Matthew or the
				  Pribilof Islands if the Tanner crab were taken in the Western Subdistrict of
				  the Bering Sea, after 24 hours following the closure;
(2) to Dutch Harbor, Akutan, or King Cove
				  from the
(A) Eastern Aleutian District, after
				  24 hours following the closure;
(B)
				  Western Aleutian District, after 72 hours following the closure, except that
				  the owner, or the owner's agent, of a vessel delivering to King Cove may
				  request additional time to deliver Tanner crab using the procedure specified in
				  (3) of this subsection;
(C) Eastern
				  Subdistrict of the Bering Sea District, after 24 hours following the closure,
				  except that a owner, or the owner's agent, of a vessel delivering to King Cove
				  may request additional time to deliver Tanner crab using the procedure
				  specified in (3) of this subsection;
(D) Western Subdistrict of the Bering Sea
				  District, after 72 hours following the closure;
(3) to Adak or a location east of King Cove,
				  or if the vessel owner, or the owner's agent, wishes to request additional time
				  to deliver Tanner crab under (c)(2)(B) or (c)(2)(C) of this section,
(A) the vessel owner, or the owner's agent,
				  shall contact, by radio or telephone, a representative of the department in
				  Dutch Harbor within 24 hours after the closure;
(B) the representative of the department in
				  Dutch Harbor shall grant a reasonable amount of additional time for the vessel
				  to reach the port of delivery; the amount of additional time shall be
				  determined under the assumption that the vessel departed the fishing grounds
				  immediately after the closure and proceeded directly to the processing
				  location, except that a vessel may stop en route and offload pots at a storage
				  facility if the vessel operator first contacts a representative of the
				  department in Dutch Harbor and provides information on the location of the
				  storage facility, the expected time of gear placement at that facility, and the
				  expected time the vessel will depart the storage facility en route to the port
				  of delivery.