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Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 41 - Collection, Transportation, Possession, Propagation, or Release of Aquatic Organisms; Aquatic Farming › Article 4 - Aquatic Farming › 5 AAC 41.310 - Disease control and inspection

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The department
				  will continue to develop and implement a statewide fish health program in
				  accordance with
				  AS
				  16.40.150 and
				  5 AAC 41.001 -
				  5 AAC 41.400.
(b) An aquatic farm operation permit holder
				  shall submit a verbal incident report within 48 hours when a significant loss
				  occurs that is attributable to disease. An incident report shall be initiated
				  by phoning the department pathology laboratory in Anchorage or
				  Juneau.
(c) A written report
				  related to each incident shall be submitted to the department within 15 days
				  after discovery of the incident. A written report must include, at a minimum,
(1) a description of the nature of the
				  incident;
(2) the cause of the
				  incident;
(3) the time of the
				  incident;
(4) the effect on the
				  stocks and aquatic farm products;
(5) corrective action taken and proposed
				  measures to eradicate future problems; and
(6) an assessment of the general impact on
				  the program.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 41 - Collection, Transportation, Possession, Propagation, or Release of Aquatic Organisms; Aquatic Farming › Article 4 - Aquatic Farming › 5 AAC 41.390 - Appeal process

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) A person adversely affected by the
				  commissioner's decision under
				  5 AAC 41.240,
				  5 AAC 41.250,
				  5 AAC 41.255, or
				  5 AAC 41.280 may request that the commissioner
				  reconsider that decision under this section only if the person has new or
				  additional information relevant to the decision.
(b) A request for reconsideration must be in
				  writing and received by the commissioner within 30 days after the date of the
				  decision.
(c) Within 30 days after
				  receiving the request for reconsideration, the commissioner will issue a
				  written decision granting or denying the request for reconsideration. If the
				  commissioner does not act on the request for reconsideration within 30 days
				  after receiving the request, the request is denied. If the commissioner grants
				  the request for reconsideration, the commissioner will either affirm the
				  original decision or issue a new or modified decision based on the new or
				  additional information.
(d) The
				  commissioner's decision on reconsideration or denial of reconsideration under
				  this section is the final administrative decision for purposes of appeal to the
				  superior court under
				  AS
				  22.10.020.
Authority:
AS
						16.05.050
AS
						16.40.160
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 41 - Collection, Transportation, Possession, Propagation, or Release of Aquatic Organisms; Aquatic Farming › Article 4 - Aquatic Farming › 5 AAC 41.400 - Definitions

Current through May 31, 2024
Unless the context requires otherwise, in
					 5 AAC 41.200 -
					 5 AAC 41.400,
(1) "aquatic farm" has the meaning given in
				  AS
				  16.40.199;
(2) "aquatic farm product" has the meaning
				  given in AS 16.40.199;
(3) "aquatic farm site" means a tract of land
				  permitted and used for commercial production of aquatic farm
				  products;
(4) "broodstock" means
				  specimens of a species collected to produce seed stock;
(5) "commissioner" means the commissioner of
				  fish and game;
(6) "culture" means
				  to use or the use of methods to manipulate the biology and the physical habitat
				  of a desired species to optimize survival, density, growth rates, uniformity of
				  size, and use of the available habitat, and to efficiently produce a product
				  suitable for a commercial market;
(7) "department" means the Department of Fish
				  and Game;
(8) "established use"
(A) means a
(i) commercial fishery that is subject to
				  limited entry under AS 16.43, or to permit, registration, management, or other
				  authorization requirements under this title;
(ii) sport fishery that occurs with
				  historical regularity, as indicated by department field surveys, creel census
				  sampling, sport use surveys, or other reliable sources of information or
				  validated testimony;
(iii) personal
				  use fishery that occurs with historical regularity, as indicated by personal
				  use permit reports, department field surveys, personal use surveys, or other
				  reliable sources of information or validated testimony;
(iv) subsistence fishery that occurs with
				  historical regularity, as indicated by subsistence permit reports, department
				  field surveys, community use surveys, or other reliable sources of information
				  or validated testimony;
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 41 - Collection, Transportation, Possession, Propagation, or Release of Aquatic Organisms; Aquatic Farming › Article 5 - Aquarium Stocking › 5 AAC 41.505 - Reporting

Current through May 31, 2024
A permit holder must submit an annual report to the
					 commissioner for each aquarium stocking permit held by the permit holder.
					 Reports are public information. The commissioner will not issue another
					 aquarium stocking permit to a permit holder unless unless the permit holder has
					 compiled with the reporting requirements of this section and met other
					 applicable requirements.
(a) The
				  report shall include: number of each specie collected, date and place taken,
				  disposition of the specimens. and, if applicable, sex, life stage, age, lengths
				  and weights of organisms, and any other information specified in the
				  permit.
(b) If a project involving
				  the holding of specimens will continue past the permit expiration date, a
				  report and new application must be submitted before expiration to ensure a new
				  permit authorizes the continued holding of the specimens.
Authority:
AS
						16.05.020
AS
						16.05.251
AS
						16.05.270
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 41 - Collection, Transportation, Possession, Propagation, or Release of Aquatic Organisms; Aquatic Farming › Article 6 - Scientific and Educational Projects › 5 AAC 41.600 - General

Current through May 31, 2024
The provisions of this section govern aquatic resource
					 permits required for collection, transport, possession, propagation, or release
					 of aquatic organisms for scientific or educational purposes. Aquatic resource
					 permits for scientific or educational purposes will be issued only to those
					 organizations and individuals who meet the departmental requirements specified
					 in this chapter.
Authority:
AS
						16.05.020
AS
						16.05.251
AS
						16.05.340
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 41 - Collection, Transportation, Possession, Propagation, or Release of Aquatic Organisms; Aquatic Farming › Article 6 - Scientific and Educational Projects › 5 AAC 41.610 - Permit Classifications

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The
				  commissioner may issue an aquatic resource permit for scientific and
				  educational activities:
(1) to authorize
				  collection, transport, or possession of aquatic organism; to qualify an
				  applicant must be involved in scientific or educational research
				  activities;
(2) to authorize
				  propagation of aquatic organism; to qualify an applicant must be involved in
				  scientific or educational research activities; a permit issued under this
				  paragraph include specifications as follows:
(A) for classroom incubation projects, to
				  authorize the permit holder to collect up to 500 eggs or one spawning pair,
				  transport, hold alive, and release aquatic organisms.
(B) for vocational, technical, and
				  post-secondary school programs, to authorize the permit holder to collect eggs,
				  transport, hold alive, and release aquatic organisms as follows:
(i) salmonids: may collect up to 50,000 eggs
				  or equivalent in spawning pairs;
(ii) invertebrates and aquatic plants: may
				  collect the number necessary to achieve educational objectives;
(C) for propagative research, to
				  authorize accredited institutions of higher learning, or federal, state, local,
				  tribal entities, and persons or entities cooperating therewith to collect,
				  propagate, transport, and release aquatic organisms for purposes of propagative
				  research as follows:
(i) finfish: may collect
				  the number necessary to achieve the objectives of the research, not to exceed
				  the number of eggs expected to result in 5,000 or fewer adults;
(ii) invertebrates and aquatic plants: may
				  collect the number necessary to achieve the objectives of the
				  research.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 41 - Collection, Transportation, Possession, Propagation, or Release of Aquatic Organisms; Aquatic Farming › Article 6 - Scientific and Educational Projects › 5 AAC 41.620 - Reporting

Current through May 31, 2024
The department may require that the holder of a aquatic
					 resource permit submit a collection report and a completion report. Reports are
					 public information. The commissioner will not issue another permit to an
					 aquatic resource unless the permit holder has compiled with the reporting
					 requirements of this section and met other applicable requirements.
(1) A collection report must be submitted to
				  the department within 30 days after the expiration date of the permit, unless
				  otherwise specified. The report shall include: number of each species
				  collected, date and place taken, disposition of the specimens, and, if
				  applicable, sex, life stage, age, lengths and weights of organisms, and any
				  other information specified in the permit.
(2) If a project involving the holding of
				  specimens will continue past the permit expiration date, a collection report
				  and new application must be submitted before expiration to ensure a new permit
				  authorizes the continued holding of the specimens.
(3) A completion report detailing the results
				  and findings of any data analysis for the project must be submitted to the
				  department within six months of the expiration of the permit, as specified in
				  the permit.
Authority:
AS
						16.05.020
AS
						16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 41 - Collection, Transportation, Possession, Propagation, or Release of Aquatic Organisms; Aquatic Farming › Article 6 - Scientific and Educational Projects › 5 AAC 41.630 - Restrictions

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Aquatic
				  organisms collected for scientific or educational purposes may only be used for
				  the purposes specified in the aquatic resource permit.
(b) Collected aquatic organisms may be
				  transferred to other entities for scientific or educational purposes only as
				  specified in the permit.
(c) For
				  any species to be collected or held that require a federal permit, the
				  applicant must obtain the federal permit and submit a copy of it with the
				  application for an aquatic resource permit.
(d) Sampling or collecting activities must
				  stop when the maximum number of specimens allowed under the permit is obtained.
				  All aquatic organisms collected must be documented, and any aquatic organisms
				  collected in excess of the number allowed under the permit must be released
				  immediately and unharmed at the capture location, unless otherwise specified in
				  the permit. All unintended mortalities must be recorded and returned to the
				  capture site unless otherwise specified in the permit.
(e) All unattended capture devices must be
				  labeled with the permit holder's name and permit number.
(f) Specific approval is required for any
				  marking or tagging.
Authority:
AS
						16.05.020
AS
						16.05.251
AS
						16.05.340
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 41 - Collection, Transportation, Possession, Propagation, or Release of Aquatic Organisms; Aquatic Farming › Article 7 - Definitions › 5 AAC 41.899 - Definitions

Current through May 31, 2024
In addition to the definitions set out in
					 AS
					 16.05.940 and
					 AS
					 16.40.199, in
					 5 AAC 41.001 - 5 AAC 41.799.
(1) "aquaculture" means the cultivation of
				  aquatic animals, including aquatic fish and invertebrates, under positive
				  control;
(2) "aquarium stocking"
(A) means the taking of fish from the natural
				  waters of the state or placement of fish originating from the natural waters of
				  the state for purposes of live display;
(B) does not include placement of fish taken
				  in a commercial fishery in a live tank for sale or resale;
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 47 - Southeast Alaska Area › 5 AAC 47.001 - Application of this chapter

Current through May 31, 2024
This chapter applies to sport fishing in the Southeast Alaska
				  Area, including all drainages that flow into the Southeast Alaska
				  Area.
Authority:
AS
					 16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 47 - Southeast Alaska Area › 5 AAC 47.005 - Description of the Southeast Alaska Area

Current through May 31, 2024
The Southeast Alaska Area consists of all salt waters of
				  Alaska east of the longitude of Cape Suckling (144º W. long.) and north of
				  the International Boundary at Dixon Entrance, and all freshwater drainages
				  flowing into these salt waters.
Authority:
AS
					 16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 47 - Southeast Alaska Area › 5 AAC 47.020 - General provisions for seasons and bag, possession, annual, and size limits for the salt waters of the Southeast Alaska Area

Current through May 31, 2024
Unless otherwise specified through an emergency order issued
				  under
				  AS
				  16.05.060, and subject to the special
				  provisions under 5 AAC 47.021 and the provisions of
				  5 AAC 47.030 - 5 AAC 47.095, the following are the general
				  provisions for the seasons and bag, possession, annual, and size limits that
				  apply to sport fishing for finfish and shellfish in the salt waters of the
				  Southeast Alaska Area:
(1) king
				salmon: may be taken from January 1 - December 31; must be 28 inches or greater
				in length; the commissioner shall establish bag, possession, and annual limits
				as specified in
				5 AAC 47.055; a harvest record is required for a
				nonresident as specified in 5 AAC 75.006;
(2) salmon, other than king salmon: may be
				taken from January 1 - December 31; no annual limit; no size limit; bag and
				possession limits, as follows:
(A) 16 inches
				or greater in length; bag limit of six fish per species; possession limit of 12
				fish per species;
(B) less than 16
				inches in length; bag and possession limit of 10 fish in combination;
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 47 - Southeast Alaska Area › 5 AAC 47.021 - Special provisions for seasons, bag, possession, annual, and size limits, and methods and means for the salt waters of the Southeast Alaska Area

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Unless otherwise specified through an
				emergency order issued under
				AS
				16.05.060, the special provisions in this
				section apply in the salt waters listed. The special provisions are exceptions
				to the general provisions specified in 5 AAC 47.020,
				5 AAC 47.030, and
				5 AAC 47.035, and modify the general provisions only to
				the extent specified in this section.
(b) In the Yakutat vicinity:
(1) in Ankau Lagoon,
(A) the bag and possession limit for king
				salmon
(i) 20 inches or greater in length is
				one fish;
(ii) less than 20 inches
				in length is 10 fish;
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 47 - Southeast Alaska Area › 5 AAC 47.022 - General provisions for seasons and bag, possession, annual, and size limits for the fresh waters of the Southeast Alaska Area

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Unless
				otherwise specified through an emergency order issued under
				AS
				16.05.060, and subject to the special
				provisions under
				5 AAC 47.023 and the provisions of
				5 AAC 47.030 - 5 AAC 47.095, this section contains the
				general provisions for the seasons and bag, possession, annual, and size limits
				that apply to sport fishing for finfish in the fresh waters in Southeast Alaska
				Area.
(b) In the fresh waters east
				of the longitude of Cape Fairweather:
(1)
				king salmon: sport fishing for king salmon is closed;
(2) salmon, other than king salmon: may be
				taken from January 1 - December 31; no annual limit, no size limit; bag and
				possession limits, as follows:
(A) 16 inches
				or greater in length; bag limit of six fish per species; possession limit of 12
				fish per species;
(B) less than 16
				inches in length; bag and possession limit of 10 fish in combination;
(3) rainbow and cutthroat trout,
				in combination: may be taken from January 1 - December 31; bag and possession
				limit of two fish; no annual limit; must be no less than 11 inches and no
				greater than 22 inches in length;
(4) steelhead: may be taken from January 1 -
				December 31; bag limit of one fish; possession limit of two fish; must be 36
				inches or greater in length; annual limit of two fish; a harvest record is
				required as specified in
				5 AAC 75.006;
(5) Dolly Varden: may be taken from January 1
				- December 31; bag and possession limit of 10 fish; no annual limit; no size
				limit;
(6) brook trout: may be
				taken from January 1 - December 31; bag and possession limit of 10 fish; no
				annual limit; no size limit;
(7)
				grayling: may be taken from January 1 - December 31; bag and possession limit
				of 10 fish; no annual limit; no size limit;
(8) other freshwater finfish species not
				specified in this subsection: may be taken from January 1 - December 31; no
				bag, possession, annual, or size limits.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 47 - Southeast Alaska Area › 5 AAC 47.023 - Special provisions for seasons, bag, possession, annual, and size limits, and methods and means for the fresh waters of the Southeast Alaska Area

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Unless otherwise specified through an
				emergency order issued under
				AS
				16.05.060, the special provisions in this
				section apply to the fresh waters listed. The special provisions are exceptions
				to the general provisions specified in
				5 AAC 47.022 and
				5 AAC 47.030, and modify the general provisions only to the
				extent specified in this section.
(b) In the freshwater drainages in the
				Yakutat vicinity that are crossed by the Yakutat road system and all streams
				draining into Yakutat Bay between Ocean Cape and Point Latouche:
(1) except as provided in (5) of this
				subsection,
(A) only unbaited, artificial
				lures may be used;
(B) the bag and
				possession limit for coho salmon 16 inches or greater in length is two
				fish;
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 47 - Southeast Alaska Area › 5 AAC 47.024 - Harvest record required; annual limit (Repealed)

Current through May 31, 2024
In Register 209, April 2014, the provisions of
					 5 AAC 47.024 were repealed because the substance of the
					 harvest record provisions appears in
					 5 AAC 75.006, which applies on a statewide basis, and
					 the annual limit provisions for king salmon and steelhead trout appear in the
					 general provisions for salt waters in
					 5 AAC 47.020 and for fresh waters in
					 5 AAC 47.022.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 47 - Southeast Alaska Area › 5 AAC 47.030 - Methods, means, and general provisions - Finfish

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Unless otherwise provided in
				5 AAC 47.021,
				5 AAC 47.023,
				5 AAC 47.055, or by emergency order issued under AS
				16.05.060, the provisions in this section apply to finfish sport fishing in the
				Southeast Alaska Area.
(b) Sport
				fishing may be conducted only by the use of a single line per angler, and not
				more than six lines may be fished from a vessel.
(c) Repealed 5/25/2000.
(d) Repealed 5/25/2000.
(e) Upon request by a representative of the
				department or a peace officer of the state, external tags on all salmon and
				trout and the tags and heads of all adipose-fin-clipped salmon and trout must
				be forfeited, and the date and location of their catch must be
				disclosed.
(f) Fishing within 300
				feet of a fish ladder is allowed unless otherwise posted by department markers.
				No person may fish from, on, or in a fish ladder.
(g) Repealed 5/31/2009.
(h) Repealed 3/13/2004.
(i) Only unbaited, artificial lures may be
				used in fresh water from November 16 - September 14.
(j) Notwithstanding
				5 AAC 75.026, in the Southeast Alaska Area, pink and
				chum salmon taken in a sport fishery may be used as bait in a sport, personal
				use, or subsistence fishery.
(k)
				Repealed 6/10/2010.
(l) A person
				sport fishing from a charter vessel when releasing a nonpelagic rockfish shall
				immediately use a deep water release mechanism to return the fish to the depth
				it was hooked or to a depth of at least 100 feet. A charter vessel must have at
				least one functional deep water release mechanism on board and readily
				available for use when sport fishing activities are taking place. Upon request,
				a person sport fishing from a charter vessel and the operator of the vessel
				must present a deep water release mechanism must be presented to a local
				representative of the department, or a peace officer of the state, or federal
				law enforcement officer changed with enforcing fish and game laws. In this
				subsection, "deep water release - "mechanism" means a device designed to return
				a rockfish back near the bottom where it was hooked, or to a specified depth,
				and to assist the fish in recompression and to improve the fish's chance of
				survival. Beginning January 1, 2020, a person sport fishing from a vcssel and
				the operator of the vessel must comply with the requirements of 5 AAC 75.020(f).
Authority:
AS 16.05.060
AS 16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 47 - Southeast Alaska Area › 5 AAC 47.035 - Methods, means, and general provisions - Shellfish

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Unless otherwise provided in
				5 AAC 47.021 or by emergency order issued under
				AS
				16.05.060, the provisions in this section
				apply to shellfish sport fishing in the Southeast Alaska Area.
(b) Shellfish may be taken only as follows:
(1) shrimp may be taken by pots and ring
				nets; pots operated to take shrimp may pot be longlined, and one buoy is
				required for each pot:
(2) crab may
				be taken by pots, ring nets, diving gear, dip nets, and hooked or hookless hand
				lines, or by hand;
(3) clams may be
				taken by rakes, shovels, or manually operated clam guns, or by hand;
(4) repealed 6/17/2018.
(5) scallops may be taken by diving gear, dip
				nets, or by hand;
(6) shellfish not
				otherwise specified in this chapter may be taken by hook and line in addition
				to all gear specified in (b) of this section.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 47 - Southeast Alaska Area › 5 AAC 47.036 - Prohibitions

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Repealed 7/13/2012.
(b) Repealed 7/13/2012.
(c) Operators and crew members working on a
				charter vessel may not retain king salmon while clients are on board the
				vessel. The maximum number of fishing lines that may be fished from a vessel
				engaged in sport fishing charter activities is equal to the number of paying
				clients on board the vessel. The number of fishing lines may not exceed six
				lines as specified in
				5 AAC 47.030(b).
Authority:
AS
					 16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 47 - Southeast Alaska Area › 5 AAC 47.041 - Sport fishing from commercially licensed vessels; charter vessel registration

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) A person may sport fish from a registered
				commercial salmon hand troll or power troll vessel.
(b) Repealed 5/13/95.
(c) A person who sport fishes from a vessel
				licensed for commercial salmon fishing, other than a charter vessel when paying
				clients are on board, shall, immediately upon bringing a salmon on board, mark
				the salmon by removing its dorsal (large back) fin.
(d) Sport fishing from a commercially
				licensed vessel while commercially caught salmon are in possession is illegal
				in waters closed to commercial salmon fishing.
(e) A commercially licensed vessel registered
				to fish commercially for shrimp, Dungeness crab, or Tanner crab may not be used
				to take that species for sport fishing purposes during the period starting 14
				days before an opening and ending 14 days following the closure of an open
				commercial season for that species in the district, area, or areas for which
				the vessel is registered.
(f) A
				person may not sport fish and commercial fish for salmon from the same vessel
				on the same day.
(g) A person may
				possess sport-caught salmon on board a commercial salmon vessel while that
				vessel is engaged in commercial salmon fishing only if the salmon is preserved
				fish at the time the vessel is engaged in commercial salmon fishing. In this
				subsection, "preserved fish" has the meaning given in
				5 AAC 75.995.
Authority:
AS
					 16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 47 - Southeast Alaska Area › 5 AAC 47.045 - Cutthroat and Rainbow Trout Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The Board of
				Fisheries (board) finds that there are some fresh waters near communities in
				the Southeast Alaska Area that do not naturally produce cutthroat or rainbow
				trout that reach 12 inches in length, the minimum size limit for trout in the
				area. The board recognizes the importance of providing for harvest
				opportunities for trout in fresh waters near communities within the
				area.
(b) If the commissioner
				determines that a fresh water near a community does not produce trout at least
				12 inches in length, the commissioner may open, by emergency order, a season
				and reduce the minimum size limit for trout to nine inches, establish a bag and
				possession limit of two fish, and prohibit the use of bait in that fresh water.
				The following four criteria must be met before the commissioner will authorize
				a nine inch minimum size limit for trout in a fresh water:
(1) there must be good road, trail, or boat
				access to the fresh water from a community;
(2) the fresh water must be landlocked or
				otherwise inaccessible to sea-run trout;
(3) there must be no documented history of
				the fresh water producing trout over 12 inches in length; and
(4) the department must have sampled the
				fresh water to determine length of trout present.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 47 - Southeast Alaska Area › 5 AAC 47.055 - Southeast Alaska King Salmon Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The
				commissioner shall establish by emergency order the king salmon sport fish bag
				and possession limits and all other necessary management measures based on the
				allocation to the sport fishery as determined by
				5 AAC 29.060. The bag and possession limits and other
				management measures established by the commissioner will remain in effect until
				March 31 of the following year.
(b)
				The objectives of the management plan under this section are to
(1) manage the sport fishery to attain an
				average harvest of 20 percent of the annual harvest ceiling specified by the
				Pacific Salmon Commission, after the subtraction of the commercial net
				allocation specified in
				5 AAC 29.060 from the harvest ceiling;
(2) allow uninterrupted sport fishing in salt
				waters for king salmon, while not exceeding the harvest ceiling;
(3) minimize regulatory restrictions on
				resident anglers; and
(4) allow for
				the transfer of any projected unused balance in sport allocation to the troll
				fishery at a date determined by the department.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 47 - Southeast Alaska Area › 5 AAC 47.057 - Stikine River King Salmon Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The objective
				of this management plan is to allow for an additional sport harvest opportunity
				on Stikine River king salmon when the projected preseason or inseason abundance
				level indicates the presence of an allowable catch for the Stikine River king
				salmon as determined under the provisions of the Pacific Salmon
				Treaty.
(b) Notwithstanding the
				provisions of
				5 AAC 47.055, if an allowable catch is available, the
				commissioner will open, by emergency order, on May 1 or as soon as the
				available catch has been announced, a directed king salmon sport fishery in
				District 8 with the following provisions:
(1)
				sport fishing for king salmon may be conducted with the use of two rods per
				angler;
(2) a resident bag limit of
				three king salmon 28 inches or greater in length, and a possession limit of six
				king salmon;
(3) a nonresident bag
				limit of two king salmon, 28 inches or greater in length, and a possession
				limit of two king salmon; an annual limit of six king salmon, 28 inches or
				greater in length.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 47 - Southeast Alaska Area › 5 AAC 47.060 - Lingcod delegation of authority and provisions for management

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The Alaska
				Board of Fisheries (board) has allocated the harvest of lingcod in seven
				management areas of Southeast Alaska (Eastern Gulf of Alaska) to the commercial
				and sport fisheries under
				5 AAC 28.160 and
				5 AAC 28.165. The board recognizes that harvest
				regulations in the sport fishery may need to be modified to attain the
				allocations in the seven management areas.
(b) If the commissioner determines that the
				regulations must be modified to attain the allocation, the commissioner may
				establish, by emergency order, minimum size limits, maximum size limits, and
				annual limits in any of the seven management areas for nonresident sport
				anglers.
(c) Repealed
				3/13/2004.
(d) Notwithstanding any
				bag limit, possession limit, annual limit, or maximum size limit established
				under (b) of this section, from May 16 through November 30, unless otherwise
				specified by emergency order, there is an additional nonresident bag,
				possession, and annual limit of one lingcod 55 inches or greater in
				length.
Authority:
AS
					 16.05.060
AS
					 16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 47 - Southeast Alaska Area › 5 AAC 47.065 - Demersal shelf rockfish delegation of authority and provisions for management

Current through May 31, 2024
Under
				  5 AAC 28.160, the Board of Fisheries has allocated 16
				  percent of the annual allowable catch of the demersal shelf rockfish in the
				  Southeast Outside Subdistrict, described in
				  5 AAC 28.105(a) (4), to the sport
				  fishery. If the commissioner determines that the demersal shelf rockfish sport
				  fishing regulations must be modified to keep the sport fishery within its
				  allocation, the commissioner may, by emergency order, require one or more of
				  the following management measures:
(1)
				reduced bag and possession limits for nonresident anglers;
(2) repealed 6/17/2018;
(3) charter operators and crewmembers may not
				retain demersal shelf rockfish while clients are on board the vessel;
(4) annual limits for demersal shelf rockfish
				for nonresident anglers;
(5) reduce
				the bag and possession limits for resident anglers;
(6) repealed 6/17/2018;
(7) annual limits for demersal shelf rockfish
				for resident anglers;
(8) time and
				area closures.
Authority:
AS
					 16.05.060
AS
					 16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 47 - Southeast Alaska Area › 5 AAC 47.095 - Application of regulations

Current through May 31, 2024
The regulations in this chapter also apply in the adjoining
				  waters of the exclusive economic zone.
Authority:
AS
					 16.05.251
AS
					 16.10.190
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 52 - Upper Copper River and Upper Susitna River Area › 5 AAC 52.001 - Application of this chapter

Current through May 31, 2024
This chapter applies to sport fishing in the Upper Copper
				  River and the Upper Susitna River, including their drainages.
Authority:
AS
					 16.05.251(a)
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 52 - Upper Copper River and Upper Susitna River Area › 5 AAC 52.005 - Description of the Upper Copper River and Upper Susitna River Area

Current through May 31, 2024
The Upper Copper River and Upper Susitna River Area consists
				  of all waters and drainages of the Copper River upstream from a line crossing
				  the Copper River between the south bank of the mouth of Haley Creek and the
				  south bank of the mouth of Canyon Creek in Wood Canyon, and all waters and
				  drainages of the Upper Susitna River upstream from the confluence of the
				  Oshetna River.
Authority:
AS
					 16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 52 - Upper Copper River and Upper Susitna River Area › 5 AAC 52.023 - Special provisions for seasons, bag, possession, and size limits, and methods and means for the Upper Copper River and Upper Susitna River Area

Current through May 31, 2024
Unless otherwise specified by an emergency order issued under
				  AS
				  16.05.060, the following are special
				  provisions to the seasons, bag, possession, and size limits, and methods and
				  means provisions under
				  5 AAC 52.022 for the Upper Copper River and Upper
				  Susitna River Area:
(1) repealed
				4/24/2009;
(2) in Chokosna River,
				sport fishing for king salmon is closed; king salmon may not be taken or
				possessed;
(3) in the Copper River
				drainage, in that portion of the mainstem of the Copper River downstream from
				the confluence of the Copper River and the Slana River,
(A) bait and artificial lures may be
				used;
(B) burbot may be taken with
				more than one line and hook, including a set line, as described in
				5 AAC 75.033;
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 52 - Upper Copper River and Upper Susitna River Area › 5 AAC 52.024 - Harvest record required; annual limit (Repealed)

Current through May 31, 2024
In Register 209, April 2014, the provisions of
					 5 AAC 52.024 were repealed because the substance of the
					 harvest record provisions appears in
					 5 AAC 75.006, which applies on a statewide basis, and
					 the annual limit provisions for king salmon appear in the general provisions in
					 5 AAC 52.022.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 52 - Upper Copper River and Upper Susitna River Area › 5 AAC 52.025 - Ice house registration

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) In the upper Copper River and Susitna
				River drainages, a person using an ice house that is not removed from the ice
				daily shall register the ice house with, and receive a permit from the
				department for that year.
(b) An ice
				house registered under this section must display the department's permit number
				on one side and on the roof of the ice house in numbers not less than 12 inches
				high, one inch wide, and plainly visible. The numbers must be in a color that
				contrasts with the color of the ice house.
(c) The department may designate time, area,
				and other conditions on the permit.
Authority:
AS
					 16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 52 - Upper Copper River and Upper Susitna River Area › 5 AAC 52.030 - Methods, means, and general provisions - finfish (Repealed)

Current through May 31, 2024
As of Register 166, July 2003, the substance of former
					 5 AAC 52.030 appears in
					 5 AAC 52.022.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 52 - Upper Copper River and Upper Susitna River Area › 5 AAC 52.035 - Methods and means (Repealed)

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Repealed
				5/4/94.
(b) Repealed
				4/30/91.
(c) Repealed
				5/4/94.
(d) Repealed
				5/4/94.
(e) Repealed
				5/4/94.
(f) Repealed
				5/4/94.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 52 - Upper Copper River and Upper Susitna River Area › 5 AAC 52.037 - Freshwater guiding requirements

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) In the Copper
				River drainage, a sport fishing guide while providing sport fishing guide
				services in fresh water may sport fish, but may not retain a king salmon, while
				a client is present or is within the guide's control or
				responsibility.
(b) Repealed
				5/13/95.
(c) Repealed
				3/30/2000.
Authority:
AS
					 16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 52 - Upper Copper River and Upper Susitna River Area › 5 AAC 52.055 - Wild Arctic Grayling Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) By employing a
				conservative harvest regime, the department shall manage wild Arctic grayling
				populations in the Upper Copper River and Upper Susitna River Area for
				long-term sustained yield. Following sustained yield principles, the department
				may manage wild Arctic grayling fisheries to provide or maintain fishery
				qualities that are desired by sport anglers.
(b) In a sport fishery covered by this
				management plan, the commissioner, by emergency order, may take one or more of
				the management actions specified in this subsection if there are conservation
				or biological concerns for the sustainability of the fishery or for a stock
				harvested by that fishery. The concerns must arise from harvest, effort, or
				catch data for that fishery which has been derived from statewide harvest
				survey data, on-site creel survey data, stock status data, stock exploitation
				rates, or from inferential comparisons with other fisheries. The management
				actions are as follows:
(1) reduce the bag
				and possession limits;
(2) reduce
				fishing time;
(3) allowing only a
				catch-and-release fishery;
(4)
				modify methods and means of harvest.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 52 - Upper Copper River and Upper Susitna River Area › 5 AAC 52.060 - Wild Lake Trout Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Notwithstanding
				the other provisions in this chapter regarding lake trout, the department shall
				manage wild lake trout populations in the Upper Copper River and Upper Susitna
				River Area by employing a conservative harvest regime and by maintaining
				harvest below the maximum sustained yield level. Following sustained yield
				principles, the department may manage wild lake trout fisheries to provide or
				maintain fishery qualities that are desired by sport anglers.
(b) In a sport fishery covered by this
				management plan, the commissioner, by emergency order, may take one or more of
				the management actions specified in this subsection if there is a conservation
				or biological concern for the sustainability of the fishery or for a stock
				harvested by that fishery. The concern must arise from harvest, effort, or
				catch data for that fishery which has been derived from statewide harvest
				survey data, on-site creel survey data, stock status data, stock exploitation
				rates, or from inferential comparisons with other fisheries. The management
				actions are as follows:
(1) reduce the bag
				and possession limits;
(2) reduce
				fishing time;
(3) allow only a
				catch-and-release fishery;
(4)
				modify methods and means of harvest.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 52 - Upper Copper River and Upper Susitna River Area › 5 AAC 52.065 - Upper Copper River and Upper Susitna River Area Stocked Waters Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The department shall manage stocked
				waters in the Upper Copper River and Upper Susitna River Area in order to meet
				public demand for diverse fishing opportunities. The department may manage
				fisheries to provide or maintain qualities that are desired by sport anglers.
				The department shall manage the stocked waters according to one of three
				management approaches. The management approaches are the
(1) regional management approach;
(2) conservative management approach;
				and
(3) special management
				approach.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 55 - Prince William Sound Area › 5 AAC 55.001 - Application of this chapter

Current through May 31, 2024
This chapter applies to sport fishing in the Prince William
				  Sound Area, including all of the drainages which flow into the Prince William
				  Sound Area, excluding the waters of the Upper Copper River.
Authority:
AS
					 16.05.251(a)
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 55 - Prince William Sound Area › 5 AAC 55.005 - Description of the Prince William Sound Area

Current through May 31, 2024
The Prince William Sound Area consists of all waters of the
				  Gulf of Alaska and its drainages, west of the longitude of Cape Suckling
				  (144º W. long.), and east of the longitude of Cape Fairfield (148º
				  50.25' W. long.), excluding the Copper River drainage upstream of a line
				  crossing the Copper River between the south bank of the confluence of Haley
				  Creek and the south bank of the confluence of Canyon Creek in Wood
				  Canyon.
Authority:
AS
					 16.05.251
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 55 - Prince William Sound Area › 5 AAC 55.022 - General provisions for seasons, bag, possession, and size limits, and methods and means for the Prince William Sound Area

Current through May 31, 2024
(a)
				Unless otherwise specified in
				5 AAC 55.023, or by an emergency order issued under
				AS
				16.05.060, the following are the seasons,
				bag, possession, and size limits, and methods and means that apply to sport
				fishing for finfish and shellfish in the Prince William Sound Area:
(1) in all fresh waters of the Prince William
				Sound Area, only unbaited, artificial lures may be used from April 15 - June
				14;
(2) king salmon: may be taken
				from January 1 - December 31, as follows:
(A)
				in fresh waters, as follows:
(i) king salmon
				20 inches or greater in length; bag limit of two fish; possession limit of four
				fish;
(ii) king salmon less than 20
				inches in length; bag and possession limit of 10 fish;
(B) in the salt waters; bag limit of two
				fish; possession limit of four fish; no size limit;
(3) salmon, other than king salmon: may be
				taken from January 1 - December 31; bag limit of six fish; possession limit of
				12 fish, of which only three fish per day and in possession may be coho salmon;
				no size limit;
(4)
				rainbow/steelhead/cutthroat trout, as follows:
(A) repealed 3/30/2006;
(B) in stocked lakes: may be taken from
				January 1 - December 31; bag and possession limit of 10 fish; no size limit;
				for the purposes of this subparagraph, "stocked lakes" includes Ruth Lake and
				Blueberry Lake;
(C) in all other
				waters not specified in this paragraph: may be taken only from June 15 - April
				14; bag and possession limit of two fish, and notwithstanding
				5 AAC 75.222, with a size limit of at least 11 inches in
				length but not more than 16 inches in length;
(5) Dolly Varden/Arctic char: may be taken
				from January 1 - December 31; bag and possession limit of 10 fish; no size
				limit;
(6) Arctic grayling: may be
				taken from January 1 - December 31; bag and possession limit of 10 fish; no
				size limit;
(7) halibut: may be
				taken only from February 1 - December 31; bag limit of two fish; possession
				limit of four fish; no size limit;
(8) lingcod: may be taken only from July 1 -
				December 31; bag and possession limit of one fish; must be 35 inches or greater
				in length including the head, or 28 inches or greater in length with the head
				removed;
(9) rockfish:
(A) may be taken from January 1 - December
				31; bag limit of four fish; possession limit of eight fish, of which only per
				day and in possession may be nonpelagic rockfish; no size limit;
(B) repealed 3/29/2018;
(10) sharks may be taken only as specified in
				5 AAC 75.012;
(11) other finfish not specified in this
				subsection: may be taken from January 1 - December 31; no bag, possession, or
				size limits;
(12) lake trout; may
				be taken from January 1 - December 31; bag and possession limit of two fish; no
				size limit;
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery › Chapter 55 - Prince William Sound Area › 5 AAC 55.023 - Special provisions for seasons, bag, possession, and size limits, and methods and means for the Prince William Sound Area

Current through May 31, 2024
Unless otherwise specified by an emergency order issued under
				  AS
				  16.05.060, the following are special
				  provisions to seasons, bag, possession, and size limits, and methods and means
				  provisions under
				  5 AAC 55.022 in the Prince William Sound Area:
(1) the following special provisions apply to
				salmon, other than king salmon:
(A) in all
				freshwater drainages crossed by the Copper River Highway from and including
				Eyak River to the Million Dollar Bridge, including Clear Creek at mile 42,
(i) the bag and possession limit is three
				fish; a coho salmon removed from the water shall be retained and becomes part
				of the bag limit of the person originally hooking it; a person may not remove a
				coho salmon from the water before releasing the fish;
(ii) from August 15 - September 15, after
				taking and retaining a bag limit of coho salmon, a person may not sport fish
				with bait for the remainder of that day in any of the waters described in this
				subparagraph;