Alaska Administrative Code
Title 11 - Natural Resources
Part 6 - Lands
Chapter 64 - Shore Fisheries Leasing
11 AAC 64.570 - Definitions

(1) repealed 3/30/85;

(2) "adjacent" means touching or lying in close proximity, as opposed to "contiguous" which requires a common boundary;

(3) "boundary lines" means lines having a course and distance that enclose one tract;

(4) repealed 3/30/85;

(5) repealed 3/30/85;

(6) "commercial fishing" means the taking, fishing for, or possession of fish, with the intent of disposing of them for profit, or by sale, barter, or in commercial channels;

(7) "commercial fishing season" means the locally recognized commercial fishing season opened by field announcement by the Alaska Board of Fish and Game;

(8) "commissioner" means the Commissioner of the Department of Natural Resources, State of Alaska;

(9) "department" means the Department of Natural Resources, State of Alaska;

(10) "director" means the Director of the Division of Lands;

(11) "division" means the Division of Lands within the Department of Natural Resources;

(12) "endline" means that boundary line of any lease tract that is parallel or nearly so with the shoreline;

(13) repealed 3/30/85;

(14) repealed 3/30/85;

(15) "lease" means a surface lease for shore fisheries development issued or held pursuant to these regulations;

(16) repealed 3/30/85;

(17) repealed 3/30/85;

(18) repealed 3/30/85;

(19) "monument" means a natural, physical, artificial, or record monument, as customarily used to appropriately define or mark an area;

(20) "neighbor" means an adjacent commercial fisherman who is to be designated as right or left side, or seaward or shoreward neighbor;

(21) "offshore" means those submerged lands lying seaward from the line of mean low tide;

(22) repealed 3/30/85;

(23) repealed 3/30/85;

(24) repealed 3/30/85;

(25) repealed 3/30/85;

(26) repealed 3/30/85;

(27) repealed 3/30/85;

(28) "site" means setnet site, individual setnet location, setnet fishing site, and set gillnet site;

(29) repealed 3/30/85;

(30) "tidelands" are those lands that are periodically covered by tidal waters between the elevation of mean high and mean low tides;

(31) "tract" means a parcel of tidelands leased under this chapter and may include one, two, or three set gillnet sites;

(32) repealed 3/30/85;

(33) repealed 3/30/85;

(34) repealed 3/30/85;

(35) "party at fault" means the lessee or lessees who, following a dispute over tract or site boundaries or locations, is determined by the director to be in error;

(36) "permanent" means not capable of being readily dismantled or removed from a site or tract within the 24 hours after notification, without destroying the object dismantled or removed or damaging the site or tract, and does not include setnet anchors;

(37) "shore fishery diagram" means a graphic depiction of an applicant's or lessee's site which indicates the relationship of the site to local landmarks and adjacent or neighboring sites.