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Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 06 - Bristol Bay Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 06.343 - Vessel identification

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) In addition to the marking requirements
				  in 5 AAC 39.119, a documented salmon
				  gillnet fishing vessel registered for the Bristol Bay Area must display its
				  name
(1) in permanent symbols at least six
				  inches high and with lines at least one inch wide which contrast with the
				  background;
(2) on the transom and
				  both sides of the bow above the water line;
(3) in a manner that is plainly visible and
				  unobscured; and
(4) at all times
				  from June 1 through September 30.
(5) If the vessel is not documented, the
				  vessel's permanent license plate ADF&G number must be displayed as
				  described in (1) - (4) of this section.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 06 - Bristol Bay Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 06.350 - Closed waters

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The following locations in the Nushagak
				  District are closed to the taking of salmon:
(1) those waters north of a line from 58°
				  58.63' N. lat., 158° 33.62' W. long., to 58° 56.79' N. lat., 158°
				  29.53' W, long., except that the commissioner may, by emergency order, open the
				  Wood River Special Harvest Area as provided in
				  5 AAC 06.358:
(2) repealed 4/2/88;
(3) the Snake River Section;
(4) those waters of the Snake River upstream
				  from a line across the river at 58° 52.80' N. lat.;
(5) those waters of the Igushik River
				  upstream of a line from 58° 43.82' N. lat., 158° 52.77' W. long. to
				  58° 43.60' N. lat., 158° 54.06' W. long.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 06 - Bristol Bay Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 06.355 - Bristol Bay Commercial Set and Drift Gillnet Sockeye Salmon Fisheries Management and Allocation Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The purpose of this management and
				  allocation plan is to ensure an adequate escapement, as determined by the
				  department, of sockeye salmon into the river systems of the Nushagak,
				  Naknek-Kvichak, Egegik, and Ugashik Districts and to distribute, to the extent
				  practicable, the harvestable surplus of sockeye salmon to the set and drift
				  gillnet fisheries for the allocation percentages specified in (b) of this
				  section. This plan also provides management guidelines to the department in an
				  effort to preclude allocations conflicts between various users of this
				  resource.
(b) It is the intent of
				  the Board of Fisheries (board) that Bristol Bay sockeye salmon be harvested in
				  the traditional harvest locations and that historical sockeye salmon catches be
				  allocated between drift and set gillnet fisheries by district. To achieve this
				  allocation, the department shall manage, to the extent practicable, the
				  commercial sockeye salmon fisheries to achieve the allocation percentages
				  established in
				  5 AAC 06.364 (Naknek-Kvichak District),
				  5 AAC 06.365 (Egegik District),
				  5 AAC 06.366 (Ugashik District), and
				  5 AAC 06.367 (Nushagak District).
(c) Repealed 3/30/2007.
(d) The department shall manage, subject to
				  existing management plans, fishery openings, closures, and areas to
(1) achieve adequate escapement from all
				  segments of the run by spacing openings throughout the run and, to the extent
				  practicable, manage for escapements to fall within the lower or upper portions
				  of escapement goals proportional to the run size based on the preseason
				  forecast and inscason assessment of tbc run size;
(2) maintain and improve stock specific
				  management through the use of district, subdistrict, and section openings and
				  closures;
(3) distribute fish
				  within individual districts and subdistricts through the spacing and duration
				  of openings;
(4) reduce intensive
				  boundary line fishing through the spacing and duration of openings;
(5) reduce harvest of stocks bound for other
				  districts, subdistricts, or sections in accordance with specific regulatory
				  management plans.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 06 - Bristol Bay Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 06.356 - General District Salmon Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Repealed
				  3/30/2007.
(b) Repealed
				  3/30/2007.
(c) Repealed
				  3/30/2007.
(d) Repealed
				  3/30/2007.
(e) Repealed
				  3/30/2007.
(f) Repealed
				  3/30/2007.
(g) Repealed
				  3/30/2007.
(h) Repealed
				  3/30/2007.
(i) Repealed
				  3/30/2007.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 06 - Bristol Bay Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 06.357 - Ugashik River Sockeye Salmon Special Harvest Area Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The goal of
				  this plan is to prevent the overescapement of sockeye salmon into the Ugashik
				  River.
(b) The commissioner may
				  open, by emergency order, the Ugashik River Special Harvest Area to fishing by
				  both drift and set gillnet when the commissioner projects that the sockeye
				  salmon escapement into the Ugashik River will exceed the minimum of the
				  escapement goal range. Separate set gillnet and drift gillnet areas in the
				  Ugashik River Special Harvest Area are described in (c) and (d) of this
				  section.
(c) The Ugashik River
				  Special Harvest Set Gillnet Area consists of all waters of the Ugashik River
				  upstream of a line from 57º 29.62' N. lat., 157º 37.63' W. long. to
				  57º 29.83' N. lat., 157º 35.22' W. long., and downstream of a line
				  from 57º 28.94' N. lat., 157º 34.56' W. long. to 57º 28.63' N.
				  lat., 157º 35.24' W. long.
(d)
				  The Ugashik River Special Harvest Drift Gillnet Area is all waters upstream of
				  a line from 57º 28.63' N. lat., 157º 35.24' W. long. to 57º
				  28.94' N. lat., 157º 34.56' W. long., and downstream of a line from
				  57º 28.76' N. lat., 157º 29.65' W. long. to 57º 29.60' N. lat.,
				  157º 29.75' W. long.
(e) When
				  the Ugashik River Special Harvest Area is open under this section,
(1) set gillnet gear may be operated only as
				  follows:
(A) a set gillnet may not exceed 25
				  fathoms in length;
(B) a set
				  gillnet may not be set or operated within 150 feet of another set
				  gillnet;
(C) repealed
				  4/4/2013;
(D) no part of a set
				  gillnet may be more than 500 feet from the 18-foot high tide mark;
(E) the shoreward end of a set gillnet must
				  go dry at low tide;
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 06 - Bristol Bay Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 06.359 - Egegik River Sockeye Salmon Special Harvest Area Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The goal of
				  this plan is to minimize the interception of sockeye salmon migrating through
				  the Egegik District and bound for spawning systems within the Naknek-Kvichak
				  and Ugashik Districts, while providing opportunities within the Egegik District
				  to harvest Egegik River sockeye salmon that are in excess of the spawning
				  escapement goal.
(b) The Egegik
				  Special Harvest Area consists of the waters south of a line between 58º
				  18.05' N. lat., 157º 33.15' W. long. and 58º 17.93' N. lat.,
				  157º 32.67' W. long., east of a line between 58º 18.05' N. lat.,
				  157º 33.15' W. long. and 58º 09.91' N. lat., 157º 34.55' W.
				  long., and north of a line between 58º 09.91' N. lat., 157º 34.55' W.
				  long. and 58º 09.44' N. lat., 157º 32.97' W. long. Unless otherwise
				  specified in this section, the applicable provisions in
				  5 AAC 06.001 -
				  5 AAC 06.380 apply to the Egegik Special Harvest
				  Area.
(c) The commissioner may
				  close, by emergency order, that portion of the Egegik District bounded by a
				  line from 58º 19.10' N. lat., 157º 36.65' W. long. to 58º 18.05'
				  N. lat., 157º 33.15' W. long. to 58º 09.91' N. lat. 157º 34.55'
				  W. long. to 58º 11.00' N. lat., 157º 38.10' W. long. to 58º
				  19.10' N. lat., 157º 36.65' W. long. if
(1) the Naknek-Kvichak or Ugashik District is
				  closed to fishing because the total season escapement is projected to be below
				  the lower end of the escapement goal range;
(2) all conservation measures have been taken
				  within the district where the escapement is projected to be below the lower end
				  of the escapement goal range; and
(3) interceptions of Naknek, Kvichak, or
				  Ugashik sockeye stocks within the Egegik District have been documented by past
				  studies and inseason indicators.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 06 - Bristol Bay Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 06.360 - Naknek River Sockeye Salmon Special Harvest Area Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The goal of
				  this plan is to achieve Kvichak River sockeye salmon spawning escapement goals,
				  while providing opportunities to harvest Naknek River salmon stocks that are in
				  excess of spawning goals. It is the intent of the Board of Fisheries that
				  salmon in the Naknek-Kvichak District should be harvested in the fisheries that
				  have historically harvested them, including the methods, means, times, and
				  locations of those fisheries, using the best biological management techniques
				  and practices. This plan has been adopted to provide management alternatives
				  that can be used by the department when differences in salmon run strengths
				  would preclude the achievement of the goal of this plan using only the
				  fisheries that have historically harvested those salmon.
(b) The Naknek River Special Harvest Area
				  (NRSHA) consists of the waters of the Naknek River from a line between two
				  points located at 58° 43.37' N. lat., 157° 03.17' W. long, and at
				  58° 42.67' N. lat., 157° 03.44' W. long, upstream to the power lines
				  across the river.
(c) On or after
				  June 27, when the department projects that the sockeye salmon escapement into
				  the Naknek River will exceed 800,000 fish and the Kvichak River escapement
				  projection is one or more days behind schedule for reaching its escapement
				  goal, the commissioner may open, by emergency order, the NRSHA to the drift
				  gillnet and set gillnet fisheries. The drift gillnet and set gillnet fisheries
				  will open separately, with a seasonal ratio of three drift gillnet gear fishing
				  periods to every one set gillnet fishing period.
(d) The following provisions apply to set
				  gillnet fishing in the NRSHA:
(1) no more
				  than 37.5 fathoms of set gillnet may be used to take salmon;
(2) a set gillnet may not be set or operated
				  within 150 feet of another set gillnet;
(3) beyond 500 feet from shore, all gear
				  associated with set gillnet fishing must be removed when it is not being used
				  to fish in the NRSHA;
(4) repealed
				  4/4/2013;
(5) set gillnet running
				  lines may not be in the water during a drift gillnet fishing period;
(6) repealed 8/14/2006;
(7)5 AAC 06.331(i), (m), (o), and (p) do not apply except that
				  the anchoring device may not be more than 50 feet from the web of the
				  net;
(8) a set gillnet may be set
				  and operated seaward of another set gillnet.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 06 - Bristol Bay Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 06.361 - Nushagak-Mulchatna King Salmon Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The purpose of
				  this management plan is to ensure biological spawning escapement requirements
				  of king salmon into the Nushagak-Mulchatna river systems. It is the intent of
				  the Alaska Board of Fisheries (board) that Nushagak-Mulchatna king salmon be
				  harvested in the fisheries that have historically harvested them. This
				  management plan provides guidelines to the department to preclude allocation
				  conflicts between the various users of this resource. The department shall
				  manage Nushagak-Mulchatna king salmon stocks in a conservative manner
				  consistent with sustained yield principles and the subsistence priority.
				  Additionally, the department shall manage the Nushagak fisheries for the
				  following management measures:
(1) to provide
				  consistent sport fishing opportunity within and among seasons, including a
				  level of inriver abundance as a given year's run timing allows, and a
				  predictably bpen season;
(2) to
				  provide a directed commercial king salmon fishery when surplus is
				  available;
(3) to minimize
				  disruptions to the commercial sockeye salmon fishery;
(4) to provide reasonable opportunity for
				  subsistence harvest of king salmon;
(5) to ensure the subsistence fishery is the
				  last fishery restricted or closed;
(6) to achieve escapement goals for all
				  species in the district;
(7) to
				  maintain a representation of age classes in the escapement similar to the
				  run.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 06 - Bristol Bay Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 06.364 - Naknek-Kvichak District Commercial Set and Drift Gillnet Sockeye Salmon Fisheries Management and Allocation Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The purpose of
				  this management plan is to establish the allocation of sockeye salmon between
				  the commercial set and drift gillnet fisheries within the Naknek-Kvichak
				  District and to establish management measures for the department to achieve the
				  allocation.
(b) Consistent with
				  5 AAC 06.355 and other applicable provisions of this
				  chapter, the department shall manage the Naknek-Kvichak District set and drift
				  gillnet fisheries during the fishing periods specified in
				  5 AAC 06.320(c) (1) to achieve
				  biological escapement goals into the Kvichak and Naknek River systems and to
				  distribute the harvestable surplus of sockeye salmon to the drift and set
				  gillnet fisheries as follows:
(1) drift
				  gillnet - 84 percent; and
(2) set
				  gillnet - 16 percent as follows:
(A) Kvichak
				  Section set gillnet fishery - eight percent; and
(B) Naknek Section set gillnet fishery -
				  eight percent;
(3)
				  repealed 3/30/2007.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 06 - Bristol Bay Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 06.365 - Egegik District Commercial Set and Drift Gillnet Sockeye Salmon Fisheries Management and Allocation Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The purpose of
				  this management plan is to establish the allocation of sockeye salmon between
				  the commercial set and drift gillnet fisheries within the Egegik District and
				  to establish management measures for the department to achieve the
				  allocation.
(b) Consistent with
				  5 AAC 06.355 and other applicable provisions of this
				  chapter, the department shall manage the Egegik District set and drift gillnet
				  fisheries during the fishing periods specified in
				  5 AAC 06.320(c) (1) to achieve
				  biological escapement goals into the Egegik River and to distribute the
				  harvestable surplus of sockeye salmon to the drift and set gillnet fisheries as
				  follows:
(1) drift gillnet - 86 percent;
				  and
(2) set gillnet - 14
				  percent.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 06 - Bristol Bay Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 06.366 - Ugashik District Set and Drift Gillnet Sockeye Salmon Fisheries Management and Allocation Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The purpose of this management plan is to
				  establish the allocation of sockeye salmon between the commercial set and drift
				  gillnet fisheries within the Ugashik District and to establish management
				  measures for the department to achieve the allocation.
(b) Consistent with
				  5 AAC 06.355 and other applicable provisions of this
				  chapter, the department shall manage the Ugashik District set and drift gillnet
				  fisheries during the fishing periods specified in
				  5 AAC 06.320(c) (1) to achieve
				  biological escapement goals into the Ugashik River and to distribute the
				  harvestable surplus of sockeye salmon to the drift and set gillnet fisheries as
				  follows:
(1) drift gillnet - 90 percent;
				  and
(2) set gillnet - 10
				  percent.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 06 - Bristol Bay Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 06.367 - Nushagak District Commercial Set and Drift Gillnet Sockeye Salmon Fisheries Management and Allocation Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The purpose of
				  this management plan is to establish the allocation of sockeye salmon between
				  the commercial set and drift gillnet fisheries within the Nushagak District and
				  to establish management measures for the department to achieve the
				  allocation.
(b) Consistent with
				  5 AAC 06.355 and other applicable provisions of this
				  chapter, the department shall manage the Nushagak District set and drift
				  gillnet fisheries during the fishing periods specified in
				  5 AAC 06.320(b) (1) to achieve
				  biological escapement goals into river systems of the Nushagak District and to
				  distribute the harvestable surplus of sockeye salmon to the drift and set
				  gillnet fisheries as follows:
(1) drift
				  gillnet - 74 percent; and
(2) set
				  gillnet - 26 percent as follows:
(A) Igushik
				  Section set gillnet fishery - six percent; and
(B) Nushagak Section set gillnet fishery - 20
				  percent;
(3) repealed
				  4/4/2013.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 06 - Bristol Bay Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 06.368 - Nushagak River Coho Salmon Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The purpose of
				  this management plan is to provide guidelines to ensure an adequate spawning
				  escapement of coho salmon into the Nushagak River system. It is the intent of
				  the Board of Fisheries (board) that Nushagak coho salmon be harvested by the
				  fisheries that have historically harvested them. The plan in this section
				  provides management guidelines to the department in an effort to preclude
				  allocation conflicts between various users of this resource. The department
				  shall manage coho salmon stocks in a conservative manner consistent with
				  sustained yield principles and the subsistence priority.
(b) The department shall manage the
				  commercial fishery in the Nushagak District to achieve an inriver run goal of
				  70,000 - 130,000 coho salmon present in the Nushagak River upstream from the
				  department sonar counter located near the village of Portage Creek by August
				  25. The inriver goal provides for
(1) the
				  department's sustainable escapement goal of 60,000 - 120,000 coho salmon
				  upstream from the sonar counter by August 25;
(2) a reasonable opportunity for subsistence
				  harvest of coho salmon; and
(3) a
				  daily bag and possession limit of five coho salmon, and a guideline harvest
				  level of 2,000 fishery in the sport fishery; the sport fish guideline harvest
				  level of 2,000 fish does not apply if the total inriver coho salmon return is
				  projected to be greater than 120,000 fish by August 25; the department shall
				  manage the sport fishery to ensure that the sustainable escapement goal of
				  60,000 - 120,000 coho salmon is achieved.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 06 - Bristol Bay Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 06.369 - Togiak District Salmon Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The department
				  shall manage the commercial salmon fishery in the Togiak District in accordance
				  with the guidelines set out in this management plan. The goal of this plan is
				  to ensure adequate spawning and harvest objectives for sockeye, coho, and king
				  salmon stocks returning to the Togiak District. It is the intent of the Board
				  of Fisheries (board) that Togiak District salmon stocks be harvested in the
				  fisheries that have historically harvested them. The department shall manage
				  the Togiak District salmon stocks in a conservative manner consistent with
				  sustained yield principles and the subsistence priority.
(b) The department shall manage the
				  commercial fishery in the Togiak River Section of the Togiak District to
				  achieve adequate escapement from all segments of the run by spacing openings
				  throughout the run and, to the extent practicable, manage for escapements
				  within the lower or upper portions of escapement goals proportional to the run
				  size based on the preseason forecast and inseason assessment of the run
				  size.
(c) Fishing periods in the
				  Togiak District under this section are as follows:
(1) from 9:00 a.m. June 1 to 9:00 a.m.
				  September 30, salmon may be taken in the Togiak District during fishing periods
				  established under
				  5 AAC 06.320, except that in the Togiak River Section of
				  the Togiak District, from July 1 through July 16, the weekly fishing periods
				  shall be 9:00 a.m. Monday to 9:00 p.m. Saturday;
(2) the commissioner may reduce, by emergency
				  order, fishing periods if information sources indicate a lack of spawning
				  escapement; information sources may include such factors as observations by
				  local elders, fish caught and observed in subsistence nets, sonar counts,
				  counting tower counts, creel counts, test fisheries, daily monitoring, and
				  aerial surveys;
(3) the
				  commissioner may increase, by emergency order, the fishing periods in the
				  Togiak River Section of the Togiak District by a maximum of 48 hours each week,
				  in addition to the normal weekly schedule, if the commissioner determines that
				  sockeye salmon run strength warrants additional fishing time.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 06 - Bristol Bay Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 06.373 - Alagnak River Sockeye Salmon Special Harvest Area Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a)The goal of
				  this management plan is to allow the harvest of surplus Alagnak River sockeye
				  salmon stocks in the Alagnak River Special Harvest Area while conserving
				  Kvichak River sockeye salmon.
(b)
				  The Alagnak River Special Harvest Area (ARSHA) consists of the waters of the
				  Alagnak River between a line from 59° 00.33' N. lat., 156° 49.43' W.
				  long. to 59° 00.00' N. lat., 156° 49.00' W. long. upstream to a line
				  from 59° 01.17' N. lat., 156° 45.68' W. long. to 59° 00.90' N.
				  lat., 156° 45.31' W. long.
(c)
				  Salmon may be taken in the ARSHA under this section only during fishing periods
				  established by emergency order. The commissioner may open, by emergency order,
				  the ARSHA only after the Alagnak River sockeye salmon sustainable escapement
				  goal has been met. To ensure adequate Alagnak River king salmon escapement, the
				  department shall, to the extent practicable, manage the ARSHA to minimize the
				  harvest of king salmon.
(d) Salmon
				  may be taken in the ARSHA with set gillnet and drift gillnet gear. Salmon
				  harvested in the ARSHA will not count against the allocations of sockeye salmon
				  to the gillnet fisheries specified in
				  5 AAC 06.364(b). To the extent
				  practicable, drift gillnet and set gillnet fishing will open separately, with
				  openings alternating between the two gear groups. If, after a total of four
				  openings, the harvest from either gear group is less than 50 percent of the
				  other gear group's harvest, alternating openings will not be required, and the
				  department may increase the number of openings for the gear group with the
				  greater harvest.
(e) When the ARSHA
				  is open under this section, a gillnet may only be operated as follows:
(1) a set gillnet may not exceed 25 fathoms
				  in length;
(2) a set gillnet may
				  not be set or operated within 150 feet of another set gillnet;
(3) repealed 5/26/2006;
(4) a set gillnet must be operated in a
				  substantially straight line perpendicular to the nearest bank of the Alagnak
				  River;
(5) repealed
				  4/4/2013;
(6) all gear and
				  equipment associated with set gillnet fishing in the ARSHA must be removed from
				  the water when it is not being used to fish in the ARSHA;
(7) no more than 50 fathoms of drift gillnet
				  may be used to take salmon;
(8) a
				  CFEC permit holder may not use more than one gillnet to take salmon at any
				  time;
(9) a drift gillnet vessel
				  may not have more than 150 fathoms of drift gillnet on board the
				  vessel;
(10)5 AAC 06.331(i), (m), (o), and (p) do
				  not apply except that the anchoring device may not be more than 50 feet from
				  the web of the net;
(11) a set
				  gillnet may be set or operated seaward of another set gillnet.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 06 - Bristol Bay Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 06.375 - Landing requirements

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) All salmon must be landed in the district
				  in which the salmon were taken, except that
(1) a vessel used to take salmon may have
				  salmon on board when the vessel is no more than one mile outside the district
				  from which the salmon were taken;
(2) a vessel that is more than one-half mile
				  inside the boundary of the Snake River Section of the Nushagak District may not
				  have salmon on board the vessel, except that a set gillnet fishing vessel may
				  have salmon on board in the entire Snake River Section;
(3) when outside a district, a vessel used to
				  take salmon may have on board up to 50 salmon for personal use, if the salmon
				  are headed and gutted;
(4) the
				  commissioner may waive the requirements of this subsection if the commissioner
				  determines it is necessary in order to conduct an orderly fishery.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 06 - Bristol Bay Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 06.377 - Reporting requirements

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The operator of a floating salmon
				  processing vessel or tender, or a shorebased processing operation, and a
				  company employing aircraft used for transporting salmon, shall report in person
				  or through an authorized agent to the local representative of the department of
				  the initial district of intended operations before the start of processing or
				  buying operations. The report must include the location and the date of
				  intended operations, and identify and describe each vessel or method of
				  transport employed in hauling or processing salmon. Before moving a processing
				  or buying operation to a new district, the operator shall notify the local
				  representative of the department by radio, telephone, or in person. If
				  requested by the department, the operator or authorized agent of the operator
				  must provide information to the department regarding the operator's processing
				  or buying activities, including processing or buying capacity.
(b) Each commercial fisherman shall report,
				  on an ADF&G fish ticket, at the time of landing, the number of king and
				  coho salmon taken but not sold.
(c)
				  if the department adopts a reporting requirement, an S03T or S04T CFEC permit
				  holder shall report, on a form provided by the department, the total number of
				  king salmon that were harvested in a commercial fishery and retained for
				  personal use annually as follows:
(1) CFEC
				  permit number;
(2) statistical
				  area of harvest;
(3) the permanent
				  ADF&G vessel license plate number; if applicable
(4) date of harvest;
(5) number of king salmon greater than 28
				  inches in length;
(6) number of king
				  salmon between 20 and 28 inches in length;
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 06 - Bristol Bay Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 06.379 - Use of aircraft unlawful

Current through May 31, 2024
A person may not use or employ an aircraft to locate salmon
					 for the commercial taking of salmon or to direct commercial fishing operations
					 in the Bristol Bay Area one hour before, during, and one hour after a
					 commercial salmon fishing period.
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 06 - Bristol Bay Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 06.380 - Unlawful possession of subsistence-taken salmon

Current through May 31, 2024
It is unlawful to purchase or sell salmon from which both
					 lobes of the caudal fin (tail) or the dorsal fin have been
					 removed.
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 06 - Bristol Bay Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 06.390 - Special drift gillnet commercial fishing periods in the Nushagak District

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) It is the intent of the Alaska Board of
				  Fisheries (board) that special drift gillnet fishing periods within the Bristol
				  Bay commercial drift gillnet fishery in the Nushagak District be available to
				  promote the local economy by allowing drift gillnet permit holders to diversify
				  operations and realize benefits from the short-term commercial fishing licenses
				  provided for in
				  AS
				  16.05.480(i).
(b) From June 1 through September 30, the
				  commissioner may, by emergency order, open and close special drift gillnet
				  fishing periods in the waters of the Nushagak River downstream of a line from
				  58º 59.39' N. lat., 158º 32.08' W. long. to 58º 59.20' N. lat.,
				  158º 28.54' W. long., and upstream of a line from 59º 02.18' N. lat.,
				  158º 27.20' W. long. to 59º 02.00' N. lat., 158º 22.17' W.
				  long.
(c) In order to participate
				  in a special drift gillnet fishing period
(1)
				  the drift gillnet vessel and permit holder must be registered for the Nushagak
				  District under
				  5 AAC 06.370;
(2) the permit holder must register in person
				  with the department at the department office in Dillingham; and
(3) there must be at least one paying client
				  on board the vessel and all crewmembers on board the vessel must possess a
				  commercial crewmember license issued under
				  AS
				  16.05.480.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 06 - Bristol Bay Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 06.391 - Nushagak District King Salmon Stock of Concern Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The purpose of
				  this management plan is to provide management tools and guidelines to the
				  department for the management of Nushagak District salmon fisheries, while
				  Nushagak River king salmon are listed as a stock of management concern, which
				  will result in the sustained yield of king salmon stocks large enough to meet
				  sustainable escapement goals, while allowing for harvest opportunity in the
				  subsistence, sport, and commercial fisheries.
(b) While the Nushagak River king salmon are
				  listed as a stock of management concern, it is the intent of the board that all
				  Nushagak District salmon stocks are managed conservatively through June 28 to
				  protect Nushagak River king salmon, consistent with
				  5 AAC 39.222 (policy for the management of sustainable
				  salmon fisheries).
(c) The
				  department shall manage commercial fisheries in the Nushagak District as
				  follows:
(1) to achieve an inriver run goal
				  of 95,000 king salmon in the Nushagak River consistent with the
				  Nushagak-Mulchatna King Salmon Management Plan as described in
				  5 AAC 06.361(b)(1).
(2) when the Wood River sockeye salmon
				  forecast or in season projection is less than 5,000,000 fish the department
				  shall manage for the current sustainable escapement goal (SEG) of 700,000 to
				  1,800,000 fish;
(3) when the Wood
				  River sockeye salmon forecast or inseason assessment of run size is greater
				  than five million fish the department shall manage to achieve a Wood River
				  sockeye salmon optimal escapement goal (OEG) of 700,000 fish to an upper bound
				  that is up to 15 percent of the Wood River run size above the 1,800,000 fish
				  upper bound of the SEG, based on the preseason forecast and in season
				  assessment of run size;
(4) when
				  the Nushagak River sockeye salmon forecast or inseason projection is less than
				  2,500,000 fish, the department shall manage for the current SEG of 370,000 to
				  900,000 fish;
(5) when the Nushagak
				  River sockeye salmon forecast or inseason assessment of run size is greater
				  than 2,500,000 fish the department shall manage to achieve a Nushagak River
				  sockeye salmon OEG of 370,000 fish to an upper bound that is up to 15 percent
				  of the Nushagak run size above the 900,000 fish upper bound of the SEG, based
				  on the preseason forecast and in season assessment of run
				  size.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 06 - Bristol Bay Area › Article 5 - Smelt Fishery › 5 AAC 06.570 - Bristol Bay Capelin Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Capelin
				  (Mallotus villosus) may be taken only in the Togiak District described in
				  5 AAC 06.200(e), and only under the
				  conditions of a permit issued by the commissioner or the commissioner's
				  designee.
(b) The permit required
				  in (a) of this section shall include reporting requirements and any other
				  conditions determined necessary by the commissioner for conservation and
				  management purposes.
(c) Capelin
				  may be taken only from April 15 through May 30.
(d) Capelin may be taken only with purse
				  seines.
(e) No more than 200 tons
				  of capelin may be taken annually.
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 07 - Kuskokwim Area › Article 1 - Description of Area › 5 AAC 07.001 - Application of this chapter

Current through May 31, 2024
Requirements set out in this chapter apply to commercial
					 fishing only, unless otherwise specified. Subsistence, personal use, and sport
					 fishing regulations affecting commercial fishing vessels or affecting any other
					 commercial fishing activity are set out in the subsistence fishing regulations
					 in 5 AAC 01 and 5 AAC 02, personal use fishing regulations in 5 AAC 77, and
					 sport fishing regulations in 5 AAC 71 and 5 AAC 75.
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 07 - Kuskokwim Area › Article 1 - Description of Area › 5 AAC 07.100 - Description of area

Current through May 31, 2024
The Kuskokwim Area consists of all waters of Alaska between
					 the latitude of the westernmost point of the Naskonat Peninsula and the
					 latitude of the southernmost tip of Cape Newenham, including the waters of
					 Alaska surrounding Nunivak and St. Matthew Islands and those waters draining
					 into the Bering Sea.
Authority:
AS
						16.05.251(a)
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 07 - Kuskokwim Area › Article 2 - Fishing Districts, Subdistricts, and Sections › 5 AAC 07.200 - Fishing districts, subdistricts, and sections

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) District 1
				  consists of that portion of the Kuskokwim River upstream from a line from
				  Apokak Slough at 60º 08.50' N. lat., 162º 12' W. long. to the
				  southernmost tip of Eek Island to Popokamiut at 60º 04' N. lat., 162º
				  28' W. long., to a line between ADF&G regulatory markers located at the
				  mouth of Bogus Creek.
(1) Subdistrict 1-A
				  consists of that portion of District 1 upstream from a line between ADF&G
				  regulatory markers located at the downstream end of Steamboat Slough to a line
				  between ADF&G regulatory markers located at the mouth of Bogus
				  Creek;
(2) Subdistrict 1-B consists
				  of that portion of District 1 upstream from a line from Apokak Slough at
				  60º 08.50' N. lat., 162º 12' W. long. to the southernmost tip of Eek
				  Island to the Popokamiut at 60º 04' N. lat., 162º 28' W. long. to a
				  line between ADF&G regulatory markers located at the downstream end of
				  Steamboat Slough.
(A) Lower Section consists
				  of that portion of Subdistrict 1-B upstream from a line from Apokak Slough at
				  60º 08.50' N. lat., 162º 12' W. long. to the southernmost tip of Eek
				  Island to Popokamiut at 60º 04' N. lat., 162º 28' W. long. to a line
				  between ADF&G regulatory markers located at approximately 60º 28' N.
				  lat., 162º 18' W. long. and 60º 28' N. lat., 162º 21' W.
				  long.;
(B) Upper Section consists
				  of that portion of Subdistrict 1-B not included in Lower Section.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 07 - Kuskokwim Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 07.310 - Fishing seasons

Current through May 31, 2024
Except as provided in
					 5 AAC 07.320 -
					 5 AAC 07.360, commercial salmon fishing seasons will be
					 opened and closed by emergency order except that districts will be closed as
					 follows:
(1) Districts 1 and 2 will
				  close on September 1;
(2) Districts
				  4 and 5 will close on September 8;
(3) in District 4, commercial fishing for
				  salmon will be closed on Sundays between June 1 and July 15.
Authority:
AS
						16.05.060
AS
						16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 07 - Kuskokwim Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 07.320 - Fishing periods

Current through May 31, 2024
In the Kuskokwim Area, in all districts, subdistricts, and
					 sections, salmon may be taken only during fishing periods established by
					 emergency order. However, when fish abundance and processing capacity allows,
					 the Lower Section of Subdistrict 1-B will open up to two hours earlier during
					 commercial fishery openings in Subdistrict 1-B.
Authority:
AS
						16.05.060
AS
						16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 07 - Kuskokwim Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 07.330 - Gear

Current through May 31, 2024
In the Kuskokwim Area, salmon may be taken only with set
					 gillnets and drift gillnets. A person may not operate or assist in operating
					 more than one type of gear at any time.
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 07 - Kuskokwim Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 07.331 - Gillnet specifications and operations

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) A gillnet must
				  have a mesh size of six inches or less, and may not be more than 45 meshes in
				  depth. The aggregate length of a set gillnet or drift gillnet may not exceed 50
				  fathoms, except that if the commissioner determines that there is a harvestable
				  surplus of salmon, the commissioner may, by emergency order, close the fishing
				  season and immediately reopen a season during which the aggregate length of a
				  set gillnet or drift gillnet may not exceed 100 fathoms.
(b) Repealed 5/22/2016.
(c) Repealed 5/22/2016.
(d) Repealed 5/22/2016.
(e) No gillnet gear may be operated in a
				  manner to obstruct more than one-half the width of any waterway. In the
				  intertidal zone this restriction applies at all stages of the tide.
(f) In District 4, between June 1 and July
				  15, only one gillnet may be operated per vessel.
Before Register 218, Julv 2016, a portion of the
						substance of
						5 AAC 07.331(a) was contained in former
						5 AAC 07.331(b) -
						(d).
Authority:
AS
						16.05.060
AS
						16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 07 - Kuskokwim Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 07.334 - Identification of gear

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Each drift gillnet in operation must have
				  at one end a red keg, buoy or cluster of floats plainly and legibly marked with
				  the fisherman's five-digit CFEC permit serial number.
(b) Each set gillnet in operation must be
				  identified as required by
				  5 AAC 39.280.
Authority:
AS
						16.05.251(a)
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 07 - Kuskokwim Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 07.335 - Minimum distance between units of gear

Current through May 31, 2024
In District 5, no part of a set gillnet may be set or
					 operated within 300 feet of any part of another set gillnet.
Authority:
AS
						16.05.251(a)
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 07 - Kuskokwim Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 07.340 - Vessel identification

Current through May 31, 2024
Notwithstanding
					 5 AAC 39.119, a vessel used to commercially fish for
					 salmon in the Kuskokwim Area must permanently display the vessel's ADF&G
					 license plate number, or the permit holder's CFEC permit number, on both sides
					 of the vessel in symbols no less than 12 inches high and one inch
					 wide.
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 07 - Kuskokwim Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 07.350 - Closed waters

Current through May 31, 2024
Salmon may not be taken in the following locations:
(1) waters of the Kuskokwim River drainage
				  not included in Districts 1 and 2;
(2) repealed 5/11/85;
(3) tributaries of the Kuskokwim
				  River;
(4) waters of Kuskokuak
				  Slough of the Kuskokwim River drainage between department regulatory markers
				  located at the downstream and upstream mouths of the slough;
(5) repealed 4/14/82;
(6) all other waters of the Kuskokwim Area
				  except those waters described in
				  5 AAC 07.200;
(7) the Goodnews River east of a line between
				  ADF&G regulatory makers placed near the mouth of the Ufigag River and
				  ADF&G regulatory markers placed near the mouth of the Tunulik
				  River;
(8) the Kanektok River
				  upstream of ADF&G regulatory markers placed near its terminus;
(9) the Arolik River upstream of ADF&G
				  regulatory markers placed near its terminus.
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 07 - Kuskokwim Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 07.355 - Requirements for transporting salmon and salmon roe in the Kuskokwim Area

Current through May 31, 2024
A salmon buyer or processor transporting salmon or salmon
					 roe to the point of initial processing must have in possession, and display,
					 upon request, to a peace officer of the state, a completed fish ticket, or a
					 copy of the fish ticket, for all salmon or salmon roe in the buyer's or
					 processor's possession at the time. While transporting commercially-harvested
					 salmon or salmon roe, a buyer or processor may not possess or transport
					 subsistence-harvested salmon or salmon roe.
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 07 - Kuskokwim Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 07.367 - Districts 4 and 5 Salmon Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The objective
				  of the Districts 4 and 5 Salmon Management Plan is to maintain a level of
				  sustained yield which will provide for subsistence needs, the long-term
				  economic health of the commercial and sport fishing industries, and
				  recreational opportunities in the districts and freshwater systems flowing into
				  the districts.
(b) The District 4
				  commercial salmon fishery is to open before June 16.
(c) When the catch of king salmon in the
				  commercial fishery is less than 50 percent of the catch of king and sockeye
				  salmon combined, the department shall manage, to the extent practicable, the
				  commercial salmon fishery based on the strength of the sockeye salmon
				  return.
(d) Commercial salmon
				  fishing periods are established by emergency order. The department shall allow
				  at least one fishing period per week, unless a severe conservation problem
				  develops.
(e) When a closure of the
				  commercial salmon fishery is required, the department shall decide, on or
				  before the 10th day of the closure, whether to close the sport fishery to the
				  taking of the species of the biological concern and whether additional
				  management actions on the sport fishery are needed.
(f) During times of king salmon conservation,
				  the commercial fishery in District 5 may be restricted to that portion of
				  Goodnews Bay east of a line from an ADF&G regulatory marker located
				  approximately two miles south on the seaward side of the entrance of Goodnews
				  Bay to an ADF&G regulatory marker located approximately two miles north on
				  the seaward side of the entrance of Goodnews Bay and west of a line from Big
				  Beluga to Little Beluga.
Authority:
AS
						16.05.060
AS 16.05.251
AS
						16.05.258