Alaska Administrative Code › Title 11 - Natural Resources › Part 6 - Lands › Chapter 64 - Shore Fisheries Leasing › 11 AAC 64.570 - Definitions

Current through May 31, 2024
In these regulations, the following terms shall have the
				  meaning indicated unless the context clearly requires a different
				  meaning:
(1) repealed
				3/30/85;
(2) "adjacent" means
				touching or lying in close proximity, as opposed to "contiguous" which requires
				a common boundary;
(3) "boundary
				lines" means lines having a course and distance that enclose one
				tract;
(4) repealed
				3/30/85;
(5) repealed
				3/30/85;
(6) "commercial fishing"
				means the taking, fishing for, or possession of fish, with the intent of
				disposing of them for profit, or by sale, barter, or in commercial
				channels;
(7) "commercial fishing
				season" means the locally recognized commercial fishing season opened by field
				announcement by the Alaska Board of Fish and Game;
(8) "commissioner" means the Commissioner of
				the Department of Natural Resources, State of Alaska;
(9) "department" means the Department of
				Natural Resources, State of Alaska;
(10) "director" means the Director of the
				Division of Lands;
(11) "division"
				means the Division of Lands within the Department of Natural
				Resources;
(12) "endline" means
				that boundary line of any lease tract that is parallel or nearly so with the
				shoreline;
(13) repealed
				3/30/85;
(14) repealed
				3/30/85;
(15) "lease" means a
				surface lease for shore fisheries development issued or held pursuant to these
				regulations;
(16) repealed
				3/30/85;
(17) repealed
				3/30/85;
(18) repealed
				3/30/85;
(19) "monument" means a
				natural, physical, artificial, or record monument, as customarily used to
				appropriately define or mark an area;
(20) "neighbor" means an adjacent commercial
				fisherman who is to be designated as right or left side, or seaward or
				shoreward neighbor;
(21) "offshore"
				means those submerged lands lying seaward from the line of mean low
				tide;
(22) repealed
				3/30/85;
(23) repealed
				3/30/85;
(24) repealed
				3/30/85;
(25) repealed
				3/30/85;
(26) repealed
				3/30/85;
(27) repealed
				3/30/85;
(28) "site" means setnet
				site, individual setnet location, setnet fishing site, and set gillnet
				site;
(29) repealed
				3/30/85;
(30) "tidelands" are those
				lands that are periodically covered by tidal waters between the elevation of
				mean high and mean low tides;
(31)
				"tract" means a parcel of tidelands leased under this chapter and may include
				one, two, or three set gillnet sites;
(32) repealed 3/30/85;
(33) repealed 3/30/85;
(34) repealed 3/30/85;
(35) "party at fault" means the lessee or
				lessees who, following a dispute over tract or site boundaries or locations, is
				determined by the director to be in error;
(36) "permanent" means not capable of being
				readily dismantled or removed from a site or tract within the 24 hours after
				notification, without destroying the object dismantled or removed or damaging
				the site or tract, and does not include setnet anchors;
(37) "shore fishery diagram" means a graphic
				depiction of an applicant's or lessee's site which indicates the relationship
				of the site to local landmarks and adjacent or neighboring sites.
Authority:
AS
					 38.05.020
AS 38.05.082
AS
					 38.05.965