Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 39 - General Provisions › Article 1 - General › 5 AAC 39.130 - Reports required of fishermen, processors, buyers, exporters, and operators of certain commercial fishing vessels; transporting requirements

Current through May 31, 2024
(a)
				  Before operating during a calendar year, an individual, company, firm, or other
				  organization that is a first purchaser, catcher-exporter, catcher-processor, or
				  catcher-seller shall submit to the department a completed intent to operate
				  application provided by the department or available online. The individual,
				  company, firm, or other organization may begin to operate only after receiving
				  authorization from the department to begin operating, along with the
				  individual's or organization's processor code for the current year.
(b) An individual, company, firm, or other
				  organization described in (a) of this section that intends or is required to
				  use the eLandings Electronic Reporting System shall access the system by
				  completing an operator documentation and user agreement on the Interagency
				  eLandings Electronic Reporting System's website. In addition to the other
				  requirements of this section, an individual, company, firm, or other
				  organization described in (a) of this section that the commissioner determines
				  has submitted at least 2,000 salmon harvest fish tickets or bought more than 20
				  million pounds of salmon during any of the previous three calendar years shall
				  thereafter use the eLandings Electronic Reporting System for all salmon
				  delivered to a tender vessel, floating processor, or shorebased processor. In
				  addition to the other requirements of this section, a first purchaser shall use
				  the tLandings application for all groundfish delivered to a tender
				  vessel.
(c) An individual, company,
				  firm, or other organization described in (a) of this section shall record each
				  delivery on an ADF&G fish ticket. A fish ticket must be completed for all
				  fish or byproducts of fish harvested in the waters of Alaska and for all fish
				  or byproducts of fish harvested in waters outside of the waters of Alaska and
				  offloaded or processed in the waters of Alaska. Fish tickets for each fishery
				  must be finalized and submitted to a local representative of the department not
				  later than seven days after a delivery or partial delivery, or as otherwise
				  specified by the department, such as for each vessel trip. The operator of a
				  vessel that has harvested fish in the waters of Alaska and whose port of
				  delivery is outside this state, or who sells, transfers, receives, or delivers
				  fish in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), shall submit a completed hailed
				  weight fish ticket or a fish ticket to the department before the fish are
				  transported out of the jurisdiction of this state. At the time of delivery or
				  partial delivery, or as otherwise directed by the department, fish tickets must
				  include the following information:
(1) the
				  name and signature of the applicable individual, company, firm, or other
				  organization described in (a) of this section;
(2) the name and signature of the CFEC permit
				  holder that operated the unit of gear with which the fish were taken;
(3) the processor code imprinted
				  on the fish ticket from the code plate issued by the department, the processor
				  code handwritten on the fish ticket if instructed by an authorized
				  representative of the department, or the electronically captured information
				  from the eLandings Electronic Reporting System, except that if a catcher-seller
				  is shipping fish to a fisheries business, the fisheries business must imprint
				  the fish ticket, or electronically capture the information on the eLandings
				  Electronic Reporting System, with the processor code of the fisheries business;
				  in this paragraph, "fisheries business" has the meaning given in
				  AS
				  43.75.290;
(4) the name, or the United States Coast
				  Guard number or Department of Transportation number, of the vessel employed in
				  taking the fish, if applicable;
(5)
				  the date fishing gear was deployed and the date the delivery or partial
				  delivery of the fish is completed;
(6) the permanent ADF&G vessel license
				  plate number, if applicable;
(7)
				  the type of gear by which the fish were taken by the gear code number specified
				  by the department;
(8) the
				  statistical areas, districts, and subdistricts in which the fish were taken
				  and; if required by a local representative of the department, the nearest
				  headland or bay in which the fish were taken;
(9) the pounds, including any applicable
				  weight modifier such as with ice and slime, delivery condition code, and
				  disposition code, including any applicable overage code, of fish by species,
				  except that
(A) for salmon and crab, the
				  number is also required;
(B) for
				  herring, only the weight, in pounds or tons, and delivery condition are
				  required;
(10) an
				  indication of a partial delivery, including a partial delivery of groundfish as
				  specified in
				  5 AAC 28.070(f), if applicable;
(11) the CFEC permit number of the
				  operator of the unit of gear with which the fish were taken, imprinted on the
				  fish ticket from the valid permit card or electronically captured from the
				  valid permit card; the imprinting requirement under this paragraph may be
				  suspended by a local representative of the department after presentation by the
				  commercial fisherman of the operator's permit application validated by CFEC or
				  documentation from the department or CFEC that the permit card has been
				  damaged, lost, or stolen; if a suspension is granted, the buyer or commercial
				  fisherman must handwrite the name of the permit holder, the permit holder's
				  permit number, and, if applicable, the permanent ADF&G vessel license plate
				  number on the fish ticket, and attach a copy of the supporting documentation;
(12) the number or pounds of fish
				  by species retained by a commercial fisherman for that person's own use, if
				  applicable;
(13) the number of
				  licensed crewmembers, including the vessel operator, if applicable;
(14) the number of certified onboard
				  observers, if applicable;
(15) the
				  management program code, if using the eLandings Electronic Reporting System;
(16) the permanent ADF&G
				  vessel license plate number of the tender vessel, if applicable;
(17) for a dual permit, the second CFEC
				  permit number, if required by the department;
(18) any other information that the commissioner determines is
				  necessary.