Alaska Administrative Code
Title 5 - Fish and Game
Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries
Chapter 01 - Subsistence Finfish Fishery
Article 10 - Kodiak Area
5 AAC 01.520 - Lawful gear and gear specifications

(a) Unless restricted by this section or under the terms of a subsistence fishing permit, fish may be taken by gear listed in 5 AAC 01.010(a).

(b) Salmon may be taken only by gillnet and seine. Gillnet and seine gear may not be operated in a manner to obstruct more than one-half the width of any waterway and any channel or side channel of a waterway.

(c) Halibut may be taken only by a single hand-held line with not more than two hooks attached to it.

(d) Subsistence fishermen must be physically present at the net at all times the net is being fished.

(e) Lingcod may be taken only by a single hand-held line or a single longline, none of which may have more than five hooks attached to it, except that lingcod taken incidentally in another subsistence finfish fishery may be retained for subsistence purposes as described in 5 AAC 01.510(c).

(f) Rockfish may be taken only by a single hand-held line or a single longline, none of which may have more than five hooks attached to it, except that rockfish taken incidentally in another subsistence finfish fishery may be retained for subsistence purposes as described in 5 AAC 01.510(c).