Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 3 - Game › Chapter 92 - Statewide Provisions › Article 4 - Methods and Means › 5 AAC 92.095 - Unlawful methods of taking furbearers; exceptions

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The following
				  methods and means of taking furbearers under a trapping license are prohibited,
				  in addition to the prohibitions in
				  5 AAC 92.080:
(1) by
				  disturbing or destroying a den, except that any muskrat pushup or feeding house
				  may be disturbed in the course of trapping;
(2) by disturbing or destroying any beaver
				  house;
(3) taking beaver by any
				  means other than a steel trap or snare, except that
(A) a firearm may be used to take beaver in
				  Units 8, 16, 18, 22, and 23 throughout the seasons and with the bag limits
				  established in 5 AAC 84;
(B) a
				  firearm or bow and arrow may be used to take beaver throughout the seasons and
				  with the bag limits established in 5 AAC 84;
(4) taking land otter with a steel trap
				  having an inside jaw spread of less than five and seven-eighths inches during
				  any closed mink and marten season in the same game management unit;
(5) using a dog, net, or fish trap (except a
				  blackfish or fyke trap);
(6)
				  repealed 7/1/2012;
(7) taking a
				  wolf or coyote with a steel trap, or with a snare smaller than
3
/
32
inch diameter in
(A) Units 7, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14(B), 15, 16,
				  17, 19 - 21, 24, and 25 during April or October;
(B) Units 7, 9, 10, 13, 15, and 16 from
				  November 1 through November 9;
(8) a person who has been airborne may not
				  use a firearm to take or assist in taking a wolf or wolverine until after 3:00
				  a.m. on the day following the day in which the flying occurred; or in taking a
				  coyote, arctic fox, red fox, or lynx, unless that person is over 300 feet from
				  the airplane at the time of the taking; this paragraph does not apply to a
				  trapper using a firearm to dispatch an animal caught in a trap or
				  snare;
(9) taking a red fox in Unit
				  15 by any means other than a steel trap or snare;
(10) taking beaver in Units 11, 13, and 16
				  from September 25 through November 9, in the remainder of Unit 20(8) and in
				  Unit 20(D) from September 25 through October 31 and from April 16 through May
				  31, and in Units 7 and 15 from October 15 through November 9 and from April 1
				  through April 30, except with underwater traps or snares;
(11) by using a hook;
(12) by placing or leaving an active trap or
				  snare set on land or ice that is within 300 feet of the site at which a moose,
				  caribou, or deer was killed as a result of being caught in a trap or snare;
				  this prohibition applies for the duration of the regulatory year in which the
				  moose, caribou, or deer was killed as a result of being caught in the trap or
				  snare;
(13) repealed
				  7/1/2016;
(14) repealed
				  8/10/2010;
(15) repealed
				  7/1/2004;
(16) in Unit 1(C), that
				  portion west of Excursion Inlet and north of Icy Passage, by using
(A) a snare with a cable diameter of 1/32
				  inch or larger that is set out of water, except under the terms of a
				  registration permit;
(B) a trap or
				  snare, unless the trap or snare is checked at least once every 72
				  hours;
(17) repealed
				  7/1/2016;
(18) in Unit 22, from
				  June 11 through September 15, taking beaver by any means other than a
				  firearm;
(19) in Unit 23, from June
				  11 through October 31, taking muskrat by any means other than a
				  firearm;
(20) in Unit 5(A), the
				  Yakutat area, by using snares or body-gripping traps with a jaw spread greater
				  than eight inches, in the following areas:
(A) within 500 yards of permanent residences
				  in Yakutat city limits;
(B) 500
				  yards inland from the mean high tide line between the intersection of Coast
				  Guard Beach Road and the coast, and a point 1/2 mile south of the intersection
				  of Cannon Beach Road and the coast, locally known as "the barge";
(C) within 150 yards on either side of Cannon
				  Beach Road; and
(D) within 50 yards
				  on either side of the Train Trail.