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 2 - Arctic-Kotzebue Area
5 AAC 01.120 - Lawful gear and gear specifications

(a) Salmon may be taken only by gillnets, beach seines, or, as specified in (f) of this section, by a hook and line attached to a rod or pole.

(b) Fish other than salmon may be taken by set gillnet, drift gillnet, beach seine, fish wheel, pot, longline, fyke net, dip net, jigging gear, spear, and lead, or, as specified in (f) of this section, by a hook and line attached to a rod or a pole.

(c) A gillnet may not obstruct more than one-half the width of any fish stream and any channel or side channel of a fish stream. A stationary fishing device may not obstruct more than one-half the width of any salmon stream and any channel or side channel of a salmon stream.

(d) In the Kotzebue District, kegs or buoys attached to subsistence gillnets may be any color except red.

(e) In the Kotzebue District, gillnets used to take sheefish may not be more than 50 fathoms in aggregate length nor 12 meshes in depth, nor have a mesh size larger than seven inches.

(f) A person may use a hook and line attached to a rod or a pole when subsistence fishing only