Opinion ID: 2509091
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Heading: Stock Acquisition Permits

Text: Alaska Statute 16.40.120 describes the second kind of permit required for aquatic farming, an aquatic stock acquisition permit. Section .120 provides that [a] person may not acquire aquatic plants or shellfish from wild stock in the state for the purpose of supplying stock to an aquatic farm or hatchery required to have a permit under AS 16.40.100 unless the person holds an acquisition permit. [19] An aquatic stock acquisition permit enables permit holders to acquire wild stock, but only for the purposes of supplying stock ... to an aquatic farm or hatchery required to have [an operating] permit under AS 16.40.100 ... [or to] the department. [20] Any wild shellfish acquired under a stock acquisition permit become the property of the permit holder and are no longer a public or common resource. [21]