Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries › Chapter 18 - Kodiak Area › Article 3 - Salmon Fishery › 5 AAC 18.363 - North Shelikof Strait Sockeye Salmon Management Plan

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The purpose of
				  the North Shelikof Strait Sockeye Salmon Management Plan is to allow
				  traditional fisheries in the area to be conducted on Kodiak Area salmon stocks,
				  while minimizing the directed harvest of Cook Inlet sockeye salmon stocks. The
				  board recognizes that some incidental harvest of other stocks has and will
				  occur in this area while the seine fishery is managed for Kodiak Area salmon
				  stocks. The board intends, however, to prevent a repetition of the
				  non-traditional harvest pattern which occurred during 1988.
(b) From July 6 through August 1 in the
				  Alinchak Bay, Katmai, Dakavak Bay, Outer Kukak Bay, Irmer Kukak Bay, Hallo Bay,
				  and Big River Sections of the Mainland District, and in the Shuyak Island and
				  Northwest Afognak Sections of the Afognak District, the department shall manage
				  the fishery as follows:
(1) management of the
				  fishery must be based on local stocks;
(2) the fishery may remain open during normal
				  fishing periods until the harvest exceeds 20,000 sockeye salmon;
(3) when the harvest exceeds 20,000 sockeye
				  salmon, the department shall restrict the fishery by emergency order to waters
				  of the
(A) Alinchak Bay, Katmai, Dakavak Bay,
				  Outer Kukak Bay, Inner Kukak Bay, Hallo Bay, and Big River Sections west of a
				  line from Cape Douglas at 58° 51.10' N. lat, 153° 15.10' W. long., to a
				  point at 58° 42.90' N. lat, 153° 25.95' W. long., to a point east of
				  Swikshak River at 58° 37.97' N. lat., 153° 35.55' W. long., to Cape
				  Chiniak at 58° 30.96' N. lat., 153° 54.50' W. long., to Cape Nukshak at
				  58° 23.50' N. lat, 153° 58.90' W. long., to Cape Ugyak at 58°
				  16.55' N. lat., 154° 06.15' W. long., to Cape Gull at 58° 13.04' N.
				  lat., 154° 08.60' W. long., to Cape Kuliak at 58° 08.10' N. lat.,
				  154° 12.30' W. long., to Cape Atushagvik at 58° 05.00' N. lat.,
				  154° 18.90' W. long., to Cape Ilktugitak at 58° 01.17' N. lat.,
				  154° 35.00' W. long., to the southern entrance of Dakavak Bay at 58°
				  01.00' N. lat., 154° 43.60' W. long., to Cape Kubugkli at 57° 52.39' N.
				  lat., 155° 05.01' W. long., to Cape Kekurnoi at 57° 43.50' N. lat.,
				  155° 18.09' W. long., to a point at 57° 39.51' N. lat., 155° 35.74'
				  W. long.;
(B) Shuyak Island Section
				  south and east of a line from Point Banks at 58° 37.95' N. lat., 152°
				  18.90' W. long., to Dark Island at 58° 38.72' N. lat., 152° 33.15' W.
				  long., to Gull Island at 58° 35.80' N. lat., 152° 38.70' W. long., to
				  the northern entrance of Big Bay at 58° 33.85' N. lat., 152° 40.30' W.
				  long., to the western entrance of Blue Fox Bay at 58° 27.68' N. lat.,
				  152° 43.65' W. long.;
(C)
				  Northwest Afognak Section south and east of a line from one-half mile west of
				  the northern entrance of Big Bay at 58° 33.85' N. lat., 152° 40.30' W.
				  long., to one-half mile west of the western entrance of Blue Fox Bay at 58°
				  27.68' N. lat., 152° 43.65' W. long., to one-half mile west of Black Cape
				  at 58° 24.50' N. lat., 152° 53.30' W. long., to one-half mile west of
				  Cape Paramanof at 58° 18.33' N. lat., 153° 02.65' W. long.