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Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 28 - Groundfish Fishery › Article 10 - Bering Sea - Aleutian Islands Area (Registration Area O) › 5 AAC 28.648 - Dutch Harbor Subdistrict Pacific Cod Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) This management
				  plan governs the harvest of Pacific cod in the Dutch Harbor Subdistrict. For
				  the purposes of this section, the Dutch Harbor Subdistrict is comprised of the
				  state waters in the Aleutian Islands District east of 170° W. long.j and
				  the state waters of the Bering Sea District that are west of 162° 30.00'W.
				  long., east of 170° W. long., and south of 55° 30.00' N. lat, except
				  that the waters of the Dutch Harbor Subdistrict south of 53° 06.11' N. lat.
				  are closed to taking Pacific cod during a state-waters season.
(b) Each year the commissioner shall open and
				  close, by emergency order, a parallel season in the Dutch Harbor Subdistrict
				  during which the use of gear allowed in the federal season for Pacific cod in
				  the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Area is permitted, unless that gear is
				  prohibited under
				  5 AAC 28.050 or
				  5 AAC 28.629.
(c) Each year the commissioner shall open and
				  close by emergency order, a state-waters season in the Dutch Harbor Subdistrict
				  for pot gear and mechanical jigging machines. For the purposes of this section,
				  when a state-waters season for Pacific cod for pot gear or mechanical jigging
				  machines is open, the parallel season for the applicable gear type is closed
				  for vessels that are 58 feet or less in overall length. The commissioner shall
				  close the state-waters season by emergency order when the guideline harvest
				  level is achieved or December 31, whichever occurs first.
(d) The state-waters season shall open as
				  follows:
(1) for pot gear, at 12:00 noon
				  seven days following the closure of the initial season for the federal Bering
				  Sea and Aleutian Islands hook-and-line and pot catcher vessel less than 60 feet
				  in overall length sector.
(2) for
				  mechanical jigging machines, on May 1.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 28 - Groundfish Fishery › Article 10 - Bering Sea - Aleutian Islands Area (Registration Area O) › 5 AAC 28.650 - Closed waters in Bering Sea-Aleutian Islands Area

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) All waters of
				  Alaska surrounding St. Matthew, Hall, and Pinnacle Islands are closed to
				  commercial groundfish fishing.
(b)
				  The waters of Unalaska Bay south of a line from Cape Kalekta at 54 ° 00.50'
				  N. lat., 166° 22.50' W. long. to Cape Cheerful at 54° 01' N. lat.,
				  166° 40' W. long. are closed to groundfish fishing with pelagic trawl
				  gear.
(c) The waters of the Dutch
				  Harbor Subdistrict, described in
				  5 AAC 28.648(a), that are south of
				  53° 06.11' N. lat. are closed to taking Pacific cod during a state-waters
				  season.
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Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 28 - Groundfish Fishery › Article 10 - Bering Sea - Aleutian Islands Area (Registration Area O) › 5 AAC 28.670 - Harvest of bait by commercial permit holders for Bering Sea-Aleutian Islands Area

Current through May 31, 2024
The holder of a valid CFEC interim use or limited entry
					 permit may take but may not sell groundfish for use as bait in the commercial
					 fishery for which the permit is held as follows:
(1) groundfish may be taken at any
				  time;
(2) groundfish may be taken
				  by any gear specified in
				  5 AAC 39.105, except trawls;
(3) groundfish may be taken under this
				  section only in the waters north of the latitude of Cape Romanzof at 61º
				  49' N. lat. and south of the latitude of Point Hope at 68º 21' N.
				  lat.
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Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 28 - Groundfish Fishery › Article 10 - Bering Sea - Aleutian Islands Area (Registration Area O) › 5 AAC 28.681 - Landing requirements for Bering Sea - Aleutian Islands Area

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The landing
				  requirements for sablefish in the Aleutian Islands District are specified in
				  5 AAC 28.640.
(b) After 72 hours following the closure of
				  any directed groundfish season within the Bering Sea-Aleutian Islands Area, a
				  vessel that participated in that fishery may not have that species of
				  groundfish on board unless
(1) that species
				  has been designated as bycatch for another directed fishery and the amount on
				  board that vessel is permissible under retained bycatch restrictions specified
				  in regulation; or
(2) the vessel
				  has been delayed due to extraordinary circumstances beyond the control of the
				  vessel operator, and the vessel operator has contacted a local representative
				  of the department no later than 72 hours following the closure of the season
				  and the representative has granted a reasonable amount of time for the vessel
				  to reach the port of delivery or processing location; any 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
				  port of delivery or processing location.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 28 - Groundfish Fishery › Article 10 - Bering Sea - Aleutian Islands Area (Registration Area O) › 5 AAC 28.685 - Logbook requirements for Bering Sea - Aleutian Islands Area

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) An operator of
				  a vessel fishing for black rockfish in the waters of Alaska in the Aleutian
				  Islands District of the Bering Sea - Aleutian Islands Area shall maintain an
				  accurate logbook of all fishing operations for each type of gear
				  used.
(b) A logbook described in
				  (a) of this section must
(1) include the
				  date, the specific location of harvest by latitude and longitude, the number of
				  hooks and lines used, the average depth of each set fished, and the hours
				  fished for each line;
(2) include
				  for the target species, and for each bycatch species, the number of fish
(A) retained; and
(B) discarded;
(3) be updated within 24 hours after midnight
				  local time on the day of operation;
(4) be retained, with its original pages, for
				  a period of two years by the owner or operator of the vessel;
(5) be kept on board the vessel while
				  operating gear, during transits to or from a port of landing, and for five days
				  after delivering groundfish;
(6) be
				  made available to a local representative of the department upon
				  request.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 28 - Groundfish Fishery › Article 10 - Bering Sea - Aleutian Islands Area (Registration Area O) › 5 AAC 28.690 - Vessel length restrictions for the Bering Sea-Aleutian Islands Area

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) A
				  person may not use a vessel that is longer than 60 feet in overall length to
				  take rockfish in the waters of Sitkin Sound and the surrounding area enclosed
				  by lines from Cape Adagdak northeast to Swallow Head to Teapot Rock southeast
				  to a point on the northwesternmost tip of Tagalak Island, and then from the
				  southernmost tip of Tagalak Island to the southernmost tip of Umak Island, and
				  then from the southernmost tip of Umak Island south southwest to Cape Azimas,
				  and then from Cape Azimas west southwest to the southernmost tip of Kagalaska
				  Island, and then from the southernmost tip of Kagalaska Island to Boot Point on
				  Adak Island, and then from Boot Point southwest to Cape Kagigkak, to 51º
				  53' N. lat., 176º 45.75' W. long., south to Careful Point.
(b) Repealed 10/16/2011.
(c) In the Bering Sea-Aleutian Islands Area,
				  a vessel participating in a parallel season for Pacific cod with longline gear
				  may not be more than 58 feet in overall length.
(d) In this section, "overall length" means
				  the straight line length between extremities of the vessel, excluding anchor
				  rollers.
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Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 28 - Groundfish Fishery › Article 11 - Chukchi-Beaufort Area (Registration Area Y) › 5 AAC 28.700 - Description of Chukchi-Beaufort Area

Current through May 31, 2024
The Chukchi-Beaufort Area consists of all territorial
					 waters of Alaska north of the latitude of Cape Prince of Wales (65º 36' N.
					 lat.).
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Publisher's note:
This regulation was
						inadvertently not printed until October 1998 (Register
						147).
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 28 - Groundfish Fishery › Article 11 - Chukchi-Beaufort Area (Registration Area Y) › 5 AAC 28.706 - Chukchi-Beaufort Area registration

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The
				  Chukchi-Beaufort Area is a nonexclusive registration area for Pacific
				  cod.
(b) A vessel that is
				  registered for the Chukchi-Beaufort Area under
				  5 AAC 28.020 for a groundfish fishery, other than a
				  state-waters season for Pacific cod described in
				  5 AAC 28.081, also shall be considered registered for
				  that fishery in the Kodiak Area described in
				  5 AAC 28.400, the Chignik Area described in
				  5 AAC 28.500, the South Alaska Peninsula Area described
				  in 5 AAC 28.550, and Bering
				  Sea-Aleutian Islands Area described in
				  5 AAC 28.600.
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Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 28 - Groundfish Fishery › Article 11 - Chukchi-Beaufort Area (Registration Area Y) › 5 AAC 28.710 - Fishing seasons for Chukchi-Beaufort Area

Current through May 31, 2024
Groundfish may be taken only during seasons established by
					 emergency order or under a permit issued by the commissioner.
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Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 28 - Groundfish Fishery › Article 11 - Chukchi-Beaufort Area (Registration Area Y) › 5 AAC 28.732 - Groundfish pot storage requirements for Chukchi-Beaufort Area

Current through May 31, 2024
Rectangular groundfish pots with all bait and bait
					 containers removed and with all doors secured fully open, and cone or pyramid
					 groundfish pots with all bait and bait containers removed and all doors not
					 secured closed may be stored in waters not more than 25 fathoms deep.
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Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 28 - Groundfish Fishery › Article 12 - Definitions › 5 AAC 28.975 - Definitions

Current through May 31, 2024
Unless otherwise provided in this chapter,
(1) "bycatch" means any species or species
				  group taken incidentally in the course of participating in a directed fishery
				  for another species or species group;
(2) "directed fishery" means a fishery that
				  is managed for the taking of one or more target species or species
				  groups;
(3) "landing" means the act
				  of offloading fish for sale or for transport to a buyer for later
				  sale;
(4) "target species" means a
				  species or species group for which there is sufficient data to allow that
				  species or species group to be managed on its own biological merits.
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Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 29 - Salmon Troll Fishery › Article 1 - General Specifications › 5 AAC 29.001 - Application of this chapter

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Unless
				  otherwise specified, requirements set out in this chapter apply only to
				  commercial salmon fishing with troll gear in the Southeastern Alaska-Yakutat
				  Area.
(b) Unless otherwise
				  specified, the provisions of this chapter that apply to the waters of Alaska
				  also apply to the adjacent waters of the exclusive economic zone.
(c) The commissioner may suspend the
				  application of the regulations in this chapter that apply to the waters of
				  Alaska to all or a portion of the waters of the exclusive economic zone that
				  are adjacent to the waters of Alaska if the commissioner finds that
(1) application of the regulations fails to
				  facilitate enforcement of regulations that apply to the waters of
				  Alaska;
(2) application of the
				  regulations fails to protect or conserve salmon inhabiting territorial waters
				  of Alaska; or
(3) the state has an
				  insufficient interest in the salmon that inhabit the waters of the adjacent
				  exclusive economic zone to warrant extending the state's jurisdiction to those
				  waters.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 29 - Salmon Troll Fishery › Article 2 - Description of Area › 5 AAC 29.010 - Description of area for salmon troll fishing

Current through May 31, 2024
Unless otherwise specified in this chapter, a person may
					 operate troll gear in the waters of the Southeastern Alaska-Yakutat Area east
					 of the longitude of Cape Suckling (144º W. long.) and north of the
					 International Boundary at Dixon Entrance.
Before Register 147, Oct. 1998, the substance of
						5 AAC 29.010 was contained in
						5 AAC 30.100 and
						5 AAC 33.100. The history of
						5 AAC 29.010 does not reflect the history of the
						provision before Register 147, Oct.
						1998.
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Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 29 - Salmon Troll Fishery › Article 2 - Description of Area › 5 AAC 29.020 - Description of fishing districts and winter boundary line

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Fishing
				  districts that are used in this chapter are described in
				  5 AAC 30.200 and
				  5 AAC 33.200.
(b) For the purposes of this chapter, the
				  "winter boundary line" for the winter season and periods established in
				  5 AAC 29.070 is a line across Yakutat Bay from the
				  westernmost tip of Point Manby, at 59° 41.66' N. lat., 140° 19.70' W.
				  long., to 59° 40.02' N. lat., 140° 24.36' W. long. to 59° 31.25' N.
				  lat., 139° 53.69' W. long. to Ocean Cape at 59° 32.06' N. lat.,
				  139° 51.46' W. long., and a line from the southernmost tip of Cape Spencer
				  to the westernmost tip of Yakobi Rock to the southernmost tip of Cape Cross to
				  the southernmost tip of Point Theodore to the westernmost tip of Cape Edward to
				  the westernmost tip of Khaz Point to the westernmost tip of Point Slocum to the
				  westernmost tip of Klokachef Island to the westernmost tip of Cape Georgiana to
				  the westernmost tip of Point Amelia to Cape Edgecumbe Light to the southernmost
				  tip of Point Woodhouse to the southernmost tip of Rogers Island to the
				  westernmost tip of Aspid Cape to the southernmost tip of North Cape to 56°
				  22.77' N. lat., 134° 57' W. long. to 56° 19.50' N. lat., 134° 54'
				  W. long. to the southwesternmost tip of Puffin Point to the northwesternmost
				  tip of Bahrovoi Point to the southernmost tip of Cape Ommaney to Nation Point
				  to Helm Point to the southernmost tip of Cape Addington to the westernmost tip
				  of Cape Chirikof to Cape Bartolome Light to the southernmost tip of Cape Felix
				  to the westernmost tip of Bruin Point to the westernmost tip of Sakie Point to
				  the westernmost tip of Cape Augustine to the westernmost tip of Rockwell Point
				  to the westernmost tip of Ritter Point to the westernmost tip of Point Bazan to
				  the westernmost tip of Security Point to Point Cornwallis Light to the
				  southernmost tip of Liscome Point to the westernmost tip of Wolk Point to
				  54° 39.87' N. lat., 132° 43.53' W. long. to Cape Muzon Light to the
				  southernmost tip of Point Nunez to the southernmost tip of Cape Chacon to the
				  southernmost tip of West Rock to the southernmost tip of Yellow Rocks to Tree
				  Point Light to Lord Rock Light to a point on the International Boundary at
				  130° 49' W. long.
Before Register 147, Oct. 1998, the substance of
						5 AAC 29.020 was contained in former
						5 AAC 30.200,
						5 AAC 33.200,
						5 AAC 33.311(d), and
						5 AAC 33.312(a) -(b). The history note
						for 5 AAC 29.020 does not reflect the
						history of the provision before Register 147, Oct.
						1998.
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Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 29 - Salmon Troll Fishery › Article 2 - Description of Area › 5 AAC 29.025 - Waters of frequent high king salmon abundance

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The following
				  waters are identified as water of frequent high abundance of king salmon:
(1) waters off the west coast of Baranof
				  Island between the latitude of Point Lauder and the latitude of Redfish Cape,
				  to a distance of one mile from the shore;
(2) waters off the Kruzof Island shore from
				  Shoals Point west to Cape Edgecumbe and from Cape Edgecumbe north to Cape
				  Georgiana, to a distance of one mile from the shore;
(3) waters off the west coast of Yakobi
				  Island between the latitude of Yakobi Rock at 58º 05.00' N. lat. and the
				  latitude of Cape Cross at 57º 55' N. lat., to a distance of one mile from
				  the main shoreline of Yakobi Island;
(4) waters of Palma Bay, Dixon Harbor, Torch
				  Bay, Murk Bay, and Graves Harbor east of a line beginning at the mouth of
				  Kaknau Creek located approximately one mile northeast of Icy Point at 58º
				  23.88' N. lat., 137º 04.45' W. long. to Astrolabe Point, then to a point
				  on the south shore of Dixon Harbor at 58º 20' N. lat., 136º 51.17' W.
				  long., then to Venisa Point, then to the westernmost tip of Polka Point;
				  and
(5) the outer banks of the
				  Fairweather Grounds bounded by the following lines:
(A) on the north by a line extending from
				  58º 46.63' N. lat., 138º 54.82' W. long. to 58º 24.55' N. lat.,
				  139º 48.98' W. long.;
(B) on
				  the south by a line extending from 58º 15.83' N. lat., 137º 21.80' W.
				  long. to 57º 50.08' N. lat., 138º 20.03' W. long.;
(C) on the shoreward side by a line extending
				  from 58º 46.63' N. lat., 138º 54.82' W. long. to 58º 15.83' N.
				  lat., 137º 21.80' W. long.;
(D) on the seaward side by a line extending
				  from 58º 24.55' N. lat., 139º 48.98' W. long. to 57º 50.08' N.
				  lat., 138º 20.03' W. long.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 29 - Salmon Troll Fishery › Article 3 - Management and Allocation Management Plans › 5 AAC 29.050 - Management of salmon troll fisheries in the Southeastern Alaska-Yakutat Area

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The management of the Southeastern
				  Alaska-Yakutat Area king and coho salmon troll fisheries is complex because of
				  mixing of the salmon stocks and fishing effort placed upon those salmon stocks
				  by the subsistence, commercial, and sport fishing user groups. The Board of
				  Fisheries (board) is concerned that some user groups, particularly those who
				  traditionally fish the final interception waters for spawning king and coho
				  salmon and the inshore waters, may have reduced opportunities to take king and
				  coho salmon because of increasing fishing effort by the salmon power troll
				  fleet on mixed stocks of those species of salmon in coastal and offshore
				  waters. The board is also concerned that continued increases in fishing effort
				  on mixed king and coho salmon stocks may result in overharvest of individual
				  salmon stocks and that individual stock escapements to specific streams in this
				  case may not be of a sufficient level to maintain a sustained yield of those
				  stocks. Because of the above concerns, the board has adopted regulations that
				  control the time, area of operation, and efficiency of the salmon power and
				  hand troll fisheries.
(b) The board
				  recognizes that changes in size and timing of the king and coho salmon runs and
				  changes in the distribution of fishing effort by the hand and power troll fleet
				  may require inseason adjustments to salmon fishing seasons, periods, and open
				  and closed waters to allow king and coho salmon to escape the coastal and
				  offshore fisheries and move into the inshore terminal fishing waters.
(c) Before 1981, the commercial salmon troll
				  fishing season was year around with a winter season of October 1 through April
				  14 and a summer season of April 15 through September 30. Since 1981, the
				  opening of the summer season has been delayed by one month to an opening date
				  of May 15 to provide for a three-cycle king salmon rebuilding program.
				  Additional delays in the opening of the summer salmon troll season have been
				  instituted in an effort to spread the king salmon harvest throughout the
				  season. In 1992, the start of the winter salmon troll fishery was delayed until
				  October 11 to provide additional fish for the summer salmon troll
				  season.
(d) It is the goal of the
				  board to restore the king salmon stock to a level that will allow a return to
				  the pre-1981 season dates.
Before Register 147, Oct. 1998, the substance of
						5 AAC 29.050 was contained in former
						5 AAC 33.363(a)-(c). The history note
						for 5 AAC 29.050 does not reflect the
						history of the provision before Register 147, Oct.
						1998.
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Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 29 - Salmon Troll Fishery › Article 3 - Management and Allocation Management Plans › 5 AAC 29.060 - Allocation of king salmon in the Southeastern Alaska-Yakutat Area

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The
				  department shall manage the commercial and sport king salmon fisheries in the
				  Southeastern Alaska-Yakutat Area in accordance with the conservation and
				  harvest goals of the Pacific Salmon Treaty, as implemented by the Pacific
				  Salmon Commission.
(b) The
				  department shall manage the sport and commercial net and troll fisheries in
				  accordance with the annual harvest ceiling established by the Pacific Salmon
				  Commission. During a directed king salmon fishery in District 8 and District
				  11, an allowable catch above the baseline harvest level will not be counted
				  towards the annual harvest ceiling. The annual harvest allocation of the annual
				  harvest ceiling for each fishery is as follows:
(1) purse seine fishery: 4.3 percent of the
				  annual harvest ceiling;
(2) drift
				  gillnet fishery: 2.9 percent of the annual harvest ceiling;
(3) set gillnet fishery: 1,000 king
				  salmon;
(4) troll fishery: 80
				  percent, after the net fishery allocations in (1) - (3) of this subsection are
				  subtracted from the annual harvest ceiling;
(5) sport fishery: 20 percent, after the net
				  fishery allocations in (1) - (3) of this subsection are subtracted from the
				  annual harvest ceiling;
(6) if the
				  projected annual Southeast Alaska all-gear harvest is below the annual harvest
				  ceiling, any remaining allocation from those gear groups listed in (1) - (3)
				  and (5) of this subsection may be allocated to the troll fishery beginning at a
				  season date determined by the department and established by emergency
				  order.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 29 - Salmon Troll Fishery › Article 3 - Management and Allocation Management Plans › 5 AAC 29.065 - Allocation of coho salmon

Current through May 31, 2024
The historical harvest allocation (1969 - 1988) of coho
					 salmon in the Southeastern Alaska and Yakutat commercial salmon fisheries is 19
					 percent purse seine, 13 percent drift gillnet, seven percent set gillnet, and
					 61 percent troll. While these percentages may vary from season to season, given
					 fluctuations in salmon abundance and the distribution and limitations of
					 fisheries management, the department shall manage the fishery to maintain these
					 allocation guidelines over the long-term. In that management the
					 department
(1) may not disrupt any of
				  the traditional commercial fisheries upon which this historical allocation is
				  founded;
(2) may make inseason
				  adjustments to attempt to achieve these historical harvest allocation
				  guidelines.
Before Register 147, Oct. 1998, the substance of
						5 AAC 29.065 was contained in former
						5 AAC 33.365(b)(11). The history note
						for 5 AAC 29.065 does not reflect the
						history of the provision before Register 147, Oct.
						1998.
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Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 29 - Salmon Troll Fishery › Article 4 - Fishing Seasons and Periods › 5 AAC 29.070 - General fishing seasons and periods

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The fishing
				  seasons for the salmon troll fishery are as follows:
(1) winter season from October 1 through
				  April 30;
(2) summer season from
				  May 1 through September 30.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 29 - Salmon Troll Fishery › Article 5 - Fishery Management Plans › 5 AAC 29.080 - Management of the winter salmon troll fishery

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The department
				  shall manage the winter salmon troll fishery so that the harvest of king salmon
				  does not exceed a guideline harvest level of 45,000 non-Alaska
				  hatchery-produced fish, with a guideline harvest range of 43,000 - 47,000
				  non-Alaska hatchery-produced fish, plus the number or Alaska hatchery king
				  salmon harvested during the winter troll fishery. In this subsection,
				  "non-Alaska hatchery-produced fish" means king salmon not originating from a
				  hatchery in this state.
(b) Except
				  in areas closed by emergency order or in the waters specified in
				  5 AAC 29.150, king
				  salmon may be taken in all waters of Alaska east of the winter boundary line
				  described in
				  5 AAC 29.020(b), with the following
				  exceptions:
(1) in District 1, the waters of
				  Behm Canal in Section 1-D between a line from Nose Point to Snail Point and a
				  line from Cactus Point to Point Eva are closed;
(2) in District 8, the waters of the Stikine
				  River inside a line from Babbler Point to Hour Point, along the shore of
				  Wrangell Island to Point Highfield to the southernmost tip of Liesnoi Island to
				  the southernmost tip of Greys Island to the small island near the eastern
				  entrance of Blind Slough, to the nearest point of Mitkof Island, to the
				  prominent point of Mitkof Island nearest Coney Island, to the northernmost tip
				  of Coney Island, to a point 500 yards north of Japanese Creek on the mainland
				  shore are closed;
(3) in District
				  11, king salmon may be taken only
(A) in
				  Section 11-A west of a line from Outer Point to Point Louisa and south and east
				  of a line from Salisbury Point to Point Tantallion, from the opening of the
				  winter fishery, specified in
				  5 AAC 29.070(b), through April
				  14;
(B) in Sections 11-B, 11-C, and
				  11-D, except that king salmon may be taken in Section 11-B north of the
				  latitude of Graves Point Light only from the opening of the winter fishery,
				  specified in
				  5 AAC 29.070(b), through March
				  31;
(4) in District 15,
				  king salmon may be taken only in Sections 15-A and 15-C.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 29 - Salmon Troll Fishery › Article 5 - Fishery Management Plans › 5 AAC 29.090 - Management of the spring salmon troll fisheries

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) In this
				  chapter, a spring salmon troll fishery means a fishery that is
(1) opened and closed by emergency
				  order;
(2) restricted in
				  area;
(3) designated by number so
				  that each opening in a specific body of water is uniquely identified for catch
				  reporting purposes.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 29 - Salmon Troll Fishery › Article 5 - Fishery Management Plans › 5 AAC 29.095 - District 8 King Salmon Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Except as
				  specified in (b) of this section, the commissioner may open, by emergency
				  order, weekly king salmon troll fishing periods in the waters of District 8,
				  beginning on the first Monday in May through June 30, to occur from
(1) 12:01 a.m. Monday through 11:59 p.m.
				  Wednesday when the commercial gillnet salmon fishery is open for 24 hours;
				  and
(2) 12:01 a.m. Monday through
				  11:59 p.m. Friday when the commercial gillnet salmon fishery is open for more
				  than 24 hours.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 29 - Salmon Troll Fishery › Article 5 - Fishery Management Plans › 5 AAC 29.097 - District 11 King Salmon Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
In District 11, the commissioner may open and close, by
					 emergency order, directed Taku River king salmon troll fishing periods, from
					 the first Monday in May through the third Saturday in June, as follows:
(1) in the waters of Section 11-A that are
				  east and south of a line from Piling Point at 58º 19.25' N. lat.,
				  134º 48.17' W. long. to Middle Point at 58º 14.90' N. lat., 134º
				  37.73' W. long. then south and west of a line from Marmion Island Light to
				  Circle Point,
(A) from 12:01 a.m. Monday
				  through 11:59 p.m. Wednesday when the gillnet fishery is open for 24 hours;
				  and
(B) from 12:01 a.m. Monday
				  through 11:59 p.m. Friday when the gillnet fishery is open for more than 24
				  hours;
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 29 - Salmon Troll Fishery › Article 5 - Fishery Management Plans › 5 AAC 29.100 - Management of the summer salmon troll fishery

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) During the
				  summer salmon troll fishery, salmon may be taken only during open fishing
				  periods. Unless otherwise specified in this section or by emergency order,
				  salmon may be taken throughout the Southeastern Alaska-Yakutat Area unless
				  restricted
(1) by a provision of this
				  section; or
(2) in the closed
				  waters specified in
				  5 AAC 29.150.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 29 - Salmon Troll Fishery › Article 5 - Fishery Management Plans › 5 AAC 29.110 - Management of coho salmon troll fishery

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Coho salmon may
				  be taken from June 1 through September 20. However, the commissioner, in years
				  when wild coho salmon abundance is projected by the department to meet
				  escapement needs after considering harvest and effort, may extend, by emergency
				  order, the coho salmon fishery in any portions of Districts 1 - 16 for up to 10
				  days after September 20.
(b) The
				  commissioner may close, by emergency order, the coho salmon troll fishery in
				  the Southeastern Alaska-Yakutat Area for conservation of coho salmon stocks as
				  follows:
(1) for up to seven days beginning
				  on or after July 25 if the total projected commercial harvest of wild coho
				  salmon is less than 1.1 million; or
(2) for up to 10 days, if the department
				  makes an assessment and determines that
(A)
				  the number of coho salmon reaching inside waters might be inadequate to provide
				  for spawning requirements under normal or restricted inside fisheries for coho
				  salmon and other species; the primary abundance indicators for the assessment
				  consist of relative harvest levels by all fisheries and, in particular, catch
				  per unit of effort in inside drift gillnet and sport fisheries as compared to
				  average 1971 - 1980 levels and escapement projections for streams where
				  escapement goals have been established; or
(B) the proportional share of coho salmon
				  harvest by the salmon troll fishery is larger than that of inside gillnet and
				  sport fishing fisheries compared to average 1971 - 1980 levels; primary inside
				  fisheries indicators for the assessment are overall coho salmon harvests and
				  catch per unit of effort in the District 1, 6, 11, and 15 drift gillnet
				  fisheries and by anglers sport fishing from boats in the salt water sport
				  fishery that return to any port connected to the Juneau road system.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 29 - Salmon Troll Fishery › Article 5 - Fishery Management Plans › 5 AAC 29.112 - Management of chum salmon troll fishery

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The
				  commissioner may open, by emergency order, a hatchery chum salmon troll fishery
				  only during the summer coho salmon troll fishery closures specified in
				  5 AAC 29.110(b) (2).
(b) If the commissioner opens a season under
				  (a) of this section, chum salmon fishing will occur only
(1) in the waters of Sitka Sound and the
				  Eastern Channel east of a line from Vitskari Rock Light to Inner Point, south
				  of a line from Inner Point to Black Rock at 57º 03.12' N. lat., 135º
				  25.63' W. long., to Signal Island Light at 57º 02.78' N. lat., 135º
				  23.58' W. long., and north of a line from Cape Burunof at 56º 59.03' N.
				  lat., 135º 23.23' W. long., to Kulichkof Rock at 56º 59.52' N. lat.,
				  135º 26.62' W. long., to Vitskari Rock Light;
(2) in the waters of Neets Bay east of the
				  longitude of Chin Point to the longitude of the easternmost tip of Bug Island;
(3) in the waters of Crawfish
				  Inlet Terminal Harvest Area south of 56° 47.14' N. lat.. in Cedar Pass,
				  northeast of a line from 56° 43.83' N. lat., 135° 16.13' W. long., to
				  56° 43.49' N. lat.. 135° 15.50' W. long., in Middle Channel, and north
				  of a line from 56° 43.01' N. lat, 135° 12.93' W. long., to 56°
				  43.25' N. lat., 135° 12.18' W. long., in Walker Channel: and
(4) in the waters of West Crawfish Inlet and
				  Windy Passage, southeast of a line from 56° 47.1 l'N. lat, 135° 18.87'
				  W. long., to 56° 46.89'N. lat., 135° 19.92' W. long., northeast of a
				  line from 56° 45.80' N. lat., 135° 20.06' W. long., to 56° 45.30'
				  N. lat., 135° 17.64' W. long, and northwest of a line from 56° 42.32'
				  N. lat, 135° 16.99' W. long, to 56° 46.36' N. lat, 135° 16.89' W.
				  long, in First Narrows.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 29 - Salmon Troll Fishery › Article 5 - Fishery Management Plans › 5 AAC 29.114 - Districts 9, 10, 12 and 14 Enhanced Chum Salmon Troll Fisheries Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The purpose of the management plan in
				  this section is to give the department direction for the orderly development of
				  enhanced chum salmon troll fisheries during the directed troll fisheries in
				  Cross Sound, Icy Strait, Northern Chatham Straiyt, and in the waters of
				  Districts 9 and 10 enclosed by a line extending from approximately one mile
				  north of Cornwallis Point Light at 56° 56.80' N. lat., 134° 16.43' W.
				  long., to Pinta Rocks Light at 57° 05.15' N . . lat., 134° 00.76' W.
				  long., to Cape Bendel at 57° 04.27' N. lat., 134° 00.76' W. long.,
				  while providing for the conservation of wild stocks.
(b) The commissioner may open, by emergency
				  order, the Northern Chatham Strait Fishery Area in District 12 and the Point
				  Couverden Fishery Area in District 14 for up to four weekdays per week
				  beginning on the second Monday in June through the last week in June to the
				  retention of pink and chum salmon only. The Northern Chatham Strait Fishery
				  Area consists of those waters enclosed by a line from 58° 11.29' N. lat.,
				  134° 53.27' W. long. to 58° 10.40' N. lat., 135° 02.63' W. long. to
				  58° 07.78' N. lat., 135° 00.78' W. long. to 58° 05.81' N. lat.,
				  134° 47.09' W. long. The Point Couverden Fishery Area consists of those
				  waters enclosed by a line from 58° 11.63' N. lat., 135° 09.60' W. long.
				  to 58° 09.58' N. lat., 135° 09.60' W. long. to 58° 07.78' N. lat.,
				  135° 00.78' W. long. to 58° 10.00' N. lat., 135° 02.35' W. long. to
				  58° 10.00' N. lat., 135° 06.24' W. long. to 58° 11.63' N. lat.,
				  135° 09.60' W. long.
(c)
				  Notwithstanding the provisions of
				  5 AAC 29.090, the spring troll fisheries in District 14
				  will be managed to minimize the harvest of wild chum salmon and may be closed
				  to the retention of chum salmon by emergency order based on wild chum salmon
				  abundance.
(d) Participants in
				  Districts 9, 10, 12, and 14 enhanced chum salmon troll fisheries shall comply
				  with the following retention and recordkeeping requirements:
(1) the operator of a salmon troll vessel
				  shall keep the fish caught in each enhanced chum salmon fishery area separate
				  from any other fish on board the vessel;
(2) a fish buyer shall separate fish caught
				  in each enhanced chum salmon fishery area until delivered to the port of
				  landing and shall issue a separate fish ticket for fish caught in each enhanced
				  chum salmon fishery area.
(3) a
				  person may not have king salmon on board a salmon troll vessel when fishing in
				  an area closed to king salmon retention.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 29 - Salmon Troll Fishery › Article 6 - Gear and Vessel Specifications and Registration › 5 AAC 29.115 - Registration

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The owner or operator of a vessel that is
				  to be used to take salmon with hand or power troll gear shall register that
				  vessel before engaging in salmon trolling during a calendar year. The
				  registration is valid for the entire calendar year in which a vessel is
				  registered.
(b) A person may not
				  register a salmon troll fishing vessel simultaneously as a salmon hand troll
				  vessel and power troll vessel. A person may change a salmon troll vessel's
				  registration from one troll gear type to the other troll gear type during the
				  open season if a written request is submitted to, and validated, by the
				  department.
Before Register 147, Oct. 1998, the substance of
						5 AAC 29.115 was contained in former
						5 AAC 39.120(g). The history note for
						5 AAC 29.115 does not contain the history of the
						provision before Register 147, Oct.
						1998.
Authority:
AS
						16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 29 - Salmon Troll Fishery › Article 6 - Gear and Vessel Specifications and Registration › 5 AAC 29.120 - Gear specifications and operations

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Salmon may be
				  taken by hand troll gear and power troll gear only in the Southeastern
				  Alaska-Yakutat Area.
(b) The
				  maximum number of trolling lines that may be operated from a salmon troll
				  vessel is as follows:
(1) from a power troll
				  vessel:
(A) no more than six lines may be
				  operated in the exclusive economic zone north of the latitude of the
				  southernmost tip of Cape Spencer;
(B) except as provided in (A) of this
				  paragraph, no more than four lines;
(C) from each power troll gurdy: only one
				  line to which multiple leaders and hooks may be attached; a person may not use
				  hand troll gurdies or fishing rods to take salmon commercially on board a
				  registered power troll vessel;
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 29 - Salmon Troll Fishery › Article 6 - Gear and Vessel Specifications and Registration › 5 AAC 29.125 - Vessel identification

Current through May 31, 2024
In addition to the requirements of
					 5 AAC 39.119, a registered salmon hand troll vessel
					 owner shall display the letters HT in block letters on both sides of the
					 vessel's hull or cabin. The letters must be in a color that contrasts with the
					 color of the background and be at least eight inches high, at least one-half
					 inch wide, and be plainly visible and unobscured at all times. The letters must
					 be displayed at all times until the end of the calendar year for which the
					 vessel is registered for a hand troll permit, unless that registration is
					 changed to power troll gear under
					 5 AAC 29.115(b).
Before Register 147, Oct. 1998, the substance of
						5 AAC 29.125 was contained in former
						5 AAC 39.119(b). The history note for
						5 AAC 29.125 does not reflect the history of the
						provision before Register 147, Oct.
						1998.
Authority:
AS
						16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 29 - Salmon Troll Fishery › Article 7 - Size and Landing Requirements › 5 AAC 29.130 - Fish tickets requirements for spring fisheries (Repealed)

Current through May 31, 2024
As of Register 214, July 2015 the substance of former
						5 AAC 29.130 appears in
						5 AAC 29.090(k).
Before Register 147, Oct. 1998, the substance of
						5 AAC 29.130 was contained in former
						5 AAC 33.311(p)(6) and
						5 AAC 33.314. The history note for
						5 AAC 29.130 does not contain the history of the
						provision before Register 147, Oct.
						1998.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 29 - Salmon Troll Fishery › Article 7 - Size and Landing Requirements › 5 AAC 29.140 - Size limits, possession, and landing requirements

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Unless
				  otherwise specified in this chapter, king salmon taken and retained must
				  measure at least 28 inches from tip of snout to tip of tail (in its natural
				  open position) or 23 inches from the midpoint of the clethral arch to the tip
				  of the tail. Undersized king salmon that are taken must be returned to the
				  water unharmed. A person may not mutilate or otherwise disfigure a king salmon
				  in any manner that would prevent the determination of the minimum size
				  restriction specified in this section.
(b) Except under a permit issued under
				  5 AAC 29.145(c), the heads of all
				  adipose-fin-clipped salmon must remain attached to the fish until the fish are
				  offloaded from a catcher vessel.
(c) In waters closed to the taking of coho
				  salmon by troll gear, a person may not use a salmon troll vessel to take salmon
				  when coho salmon are on board that vessel.
(d) If the commissioner determines that king
				  salmon in a terminal harvest area are predominately Alaska hatchery-produced,
				  the commissioner may close, by emergency order, a salmon troll fishery in a
				  terminal harvest area and immediately reopen a season during which king salmon
				  no less than 26 inches in length may be retained.
(e) A salmon troll permit holder is not
				  required to offload salmon other than king salmon at the end of a king salmon
				  fishing period. In addition to the requirements of
				  5 AAC 29.145, a fish ticket must be submitted to the
				  department within seven days after offloading king salmon that includes an
				  estimate of the number and pounds of salmon that remain on board the vessel and
				  a notation that the estimated fish have not been offloaded.
Before Register 147, Oct. 1998, the substance of
						5 AAC 29.140 was contained in former
						5 AAC 30.392(a) and (c),
						5 AAC 30.393,
						5 AAC 33.392(a), (d) and (f), and
						5 AAC 33.393. The history note for
						5 AAC 29.140 does not contain the history of the
						provision before Register 147, Oct.
						1998.
Authority:
AS
						16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 29 - Salmon Troll Fishery › Article 7 - Size and Landing Requirements › 5 AAC 29.145 - Permit, reporting, and landing requirements for salmon troll catcher-processor vessels

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Notwithstanding the provisions in
				  5 AAC 39.130, the owner or operator of a
				  catcher-processor vessel shall submit a separate fish ticket for each week that
				  the vessel fished. A fish ticket must document the estimated number and pounds
				  of salmon caught during that week. Fish tickets must be submitted to the
				  department within seven days after the fish are offloaded from the vessel. Fish
				  tickets for fish frozen at sea must be marked "frozen at sea" or
				  "FAS".
(b) The commissioner may
				  require the owner or operator of a catcher-processor vessel to contact the
				  department during an open fishing period to provide catch information needed
				  for inseason management of the fishery. The information required may include
				  the permit holder's name, the vessel's ADF&G number, the districts and
				  subdistricts fished, and the number of salmon, by species, landed on board the
				  vessel.
(c) Notwithstanding
				  5 AAC 29.140(a) and (b), the owner or
				  operator of a catcher-processor vessel may remove the heads from
				  adipose-fin-clipped salmon under a permit issued by the department.
(d) For the purposes of this section,
(1) "catcher-processor vessel" means a salmon
				  troll vessel on which the permit holder catches and sells processed fish or
				  fish products off that vessel;
(2)
				  "week" means a seven-day period beginning on Sunday 12:01 a.m. and running
				  until Saturday at 11:59 p.m.