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 3 - Norton Sound-Port Clarence Area
5 AAC 01.170 - Lawful gear and gear specifications

(a) Salmon may be taken only by

(b) Fish other than salmon may be taken only by set gillnet, drift gillnet, beach seine, fish wheel, pot, longline, fyke net, dip net, cast net, jigging gear, spear, and lead, or, as specified in (h) of this section, by a hook and line attached to a rod or 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 Norton Sound District, kegs or buoys attached to subsistence gillnets may be any color except red.

(e) In Subdistrict 1, only set gillnets may be used, except that beach seines may also be used only during subsistence set gillnet openings from June 15 through August 15.

(f) In Subdistrict 1, no person may operate in the aggregate more than

(g) In the Unalakleet River from June 1 - July 15, no person may operate more than 25 fathoms of gillnet in the aggregate and no person may operate an unanchored fishing net.

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

(i) Notwithstanding (a) - (h) of this section, during times when the commissioner determines that it is necessary for the conservation of chum salmon, the commissioner may, by emergency order, close the fishing season in any portion of the Norton Sound-Port Clarence Area and immediately reopen the season in any portion of the Norton Sound-Port Clarence Area during which gillnets

(j) Notwithstanding (a) - (h) of this section, during times when the commissioner determines that it is necessary for the conservation of king salmon, the commissioner may, by emergency order, close the fishing season in any portion of the Norton Sound-Port Clarence Area and immediately reopen the season in any portion of the Norton Sound-Port Clarence Area during which gillnets

(k) Repealed 5/22/2016.

(l) Repealed 5/22/2016.

(m) During times when the commissioner determines that it is necessary for the conservation of specific salmon species, the commissioner may, by emergency order, close the fishing season in any portion of the Norton Sound-Port Clarence Area and immediately reopen the season in any portion of the Norton Sound-Port Clarence Area to subsistence fishing with beach seines and require that specific salmon species caught with a beach seine be returned immediately to the water alive.