Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 28 - Groundfish Fishery › Article 4 - Eastern Gulf of Alaska Area (Registration Area A) › 5 AAC 28.150 - Closed waters in Eastern Gulf of Alaska Area

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The waters of
				  Sitka Sound that are enclosed on the north by lines from Kruzof Island at
				  57° 20.50' N. lat., 135° 45.17' W. long. to Chichagof Island at 57°
				  22.05' N. lat., 135° 43' W. long., and from Chichag of Island at 57°
				  22.58' N. lat., 135° 41.30' W. long. to Baranof Island at 57° 22.28' N.
				  lat., 135° 40.95' W. long., and on the south and west by a line running
				  from the southernmost tip of Sitka Point at 56° 59.38' N. lat., 135°
				  49.57' W. long. to Hanus Point at 56° 51.92' N. lat., 135° 30.50' W.
				  long. to the green day marker in Dorothy Narrows at 56° 49.28' N. lat.,
				  135° 22.75' W. long. to Baranof Island at 56° 49.28' N. lat., 135°
				  22.60' W. long. are closed to the taking of lingcod. Lingcod taken in these
				  waters must be immediately returned to the water unharmed.
(b) Notwithstanding (a) of this section,
				  lingcod may be retained as bycatch in the halibut longline fishery and for a
				  permit holder's personal use in the commercial salmon troll fishery in the
				  waters described in (a) of this section, as limited by the provisions of
				  5 AAC 28.173(a) and (e).
(c) Groundfish may not be taken in the waters
				  off Cape Edgecumbe enclosed by a box defined as 56° 55.5' N. lat., 56°
				  57' N. lat., 135° 54' W. long., and 135° 57' W. long.
(d) The following waters are closed to the
				  directed taking of demersal shelf rockfish:
(1) in the Sitka vicinity: the waters of
				  Sitka Sound that are enclosed on the north by lines from Kruzof Island at
				  57° 20.50' N. lat., 135° 45.17' W. long. to Chichagof Island at 57°
				  22.05' N. lat., 135° 43' W. long., and from Chichagof Island at 57°
				  22.58' N. lat., 135° 41.30' W. long. to Baranof Island at 57° 22.28' N.
				  lat., 135° 40.95' W. long., and on the south and west by a line running
				  from the southernmost tip of Sitka Point at 56° 59.38' N. lat., 135°
				  49.57' W. long. to Hanus Point at 56° 51.92' N. lat., 135° 30.50' W.
				  long. to the green day marker in Dorothy Narrows at 56° 49.28' N. lat.,
				  135° 22.75' W. long. to Baranof Island at 56° 49.28' N. lat., 135°
				  22.60' W. long.;
(2) in the
				  Ketchikan vicinity: all waters of Behm Canal, Clarence Strait, Tongass Narrows,
				  Nichols Passage, George Inlet, Carroll Inlet, Thorne Arm, Revillagigedo
				  Channel, and all contiguous waters enclosed by the latitude of Bushy Point
				  Light, a line from Point Alava to the southernmost tip of Ham Island, a line
				  from Cedar Point to Dall Head, and a line from Dall Head to a point in
				  midstream Clarence Strait at the latitude of Dall Head to Caamano
				  Point;
(3) in the vicinity of Craig
				  and Klawock: all waters of Ulloa Channel north of the latitude of Waterfall
				  Cannery, and all waters enclosed by a line from the southernmost tip of St.
				  Philip Island to the northernmost tip of San Fernando Island, to Point
				  Cangrejo.