Alaska Administrative Code › Title 20 - Miscellaneous Boards and Commissions › Chapter 05 - Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission › Article 3 - Limited Fisheries › 20 AAC 05.310 - Other designated fisheries

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The commission
				designates the following salmon fisheries as those that have reached levels of
				participation that require the limitation of entry:

(1) Southeastern Alaska (A)

purse seine fishery

(2) Yakutat (D)

set gillnet fishery

(3) Prince William Sound (E)

purse seine fishery

set gillnet fishery

(4) Cook Inlet (H)

purse seine fishery*

(5) Kodiak (K)

beach seine fishery

set gillnet fishery

(6) Chignik (L)

purse seine fishery

(7) Alaska Peninsula-Aleutian Islands (M)

purse seine fishery*

set gillnet fishery

(8) Statewide (B)

power troll fishery

hand troll fishery

(9) Kuskokwim (W)

gillnet fishery**

(10) Kotzebue (X)

gillnet fishery**

(11) Lower Yukon (Y)

gillnet fishery**

(12) Upper Yukon (P)***

gillnet fishery**

fish wheel fishery

(13) Norton Sound (Z)

gillnet fishery**
*In areas H and M, the purse seine fishery includes the beach seine fishery.
**In areas W, X, Y, P, and Z, the gillnet fishery includes both set and drift net fisheries.
***In area P, the gillnet and fish wheel fisheries include gear authorized by the Alaska Board of Fisheries for the Anvik River chum salmon fishery.
(b) As used in
				20 AAC 05.300 -
				20 AAC 05.320, "power troll" means the taking of a salmon
				fishery resource with troll lines operated by nonmanual gurdys.
(c) The commission designates the following roe
				herring fisheries as those which have reached levels of participation which
				require the limitation of entry:

(1) Southeastern Alaska (A)

purse seine fishery

(2) Prince William Sound (E)

purse seine fishery

gillnet fishery*

(3) Kodiak (K)

purse seine fishery

gillnet fishery*
*In areas E and K, the roe herring gillnet fishery includes the set gillnet and drift gillnet fisheries.
(d) The commission
				designates the following combined roe herring and herring fisheries as those that
				have reached levels of participation that require the limitation of entry:

(1) Cook Inlet (H)

purse seine fishery

(2) Southeastern Alaska (A)

gillnet fishery*

(3) Nelson Island (N)

gillnet fishery

(4) Lower Yukon (Cape Romanzof) (Y)

gillnet fishery

(5) Norton Sound (Z)

beach seine fishery

gillnet fishery

(6) Nunivak Island (U)

gillnet fishery

(7) Goodnews Bay (W)

gillnet fishery
*In area A, the herring gillnet fishery includes the set gillnet and the drift gillnet fisheries.
(e) The commission
				designates the following crab fisheries as those that have reached levels of
				participation that require the limitation of entry:

(1) Southeastern Alaska (A)

red and blue king crab pot fishery

brown king crab pot fishery

Tanner crab pot fishery

Dungeness crab pot fishery

Dungeness crab ring net fishery

Dungeness crab diving gear fishery

(2) Cook Inlet (H)

Dungeness crab pot fishery

Dungeness crab ring net fishery

(3) Kodiak (K)

bairdi Tanner crab pot fishery
(f) The commission
				designates the following sablefish fisheries as those that have reached levels of
				participation that require the limitation of entry:

(1) Northern Southeast Inside (A)

longline fishery

(2) Southern Southeast Inside (C)

longline fishery

pot fishery

(3) Prince William Sound (E)

fixed gear fishery

pot gear fishery

net gear fishery
(g) The commission
				designates the following herring spawn-on-kelp pound fisheries as those that have
				reached levels of participation that require the limitation of entry:
(1) Northern Southeast (A)
(2) Southern Southeast (C)
(3) Prince William Sound (E)