Current through August 30, 2024
(a) Qualifications for a Tier II subsistence
chum salmon fishing permit for Subdistrict 1 of the Norton Sound District shall
be based on a point system with a maximum score totaling 85 points, using the
following criteria:
(1) an applicant's
customary and direct dependence on the chum salmon stock for human consumption
as a mainstay of livelihood may provide up to 75 points; one point will be
given for each year above the age of five years, in which any one member of the
applicant's household has fished for chum salmon in Subdistrict 1, or processed
chum salmon taken in Subdistrict 1, plus the number of years in which that
member of the household would have fished for chum salmon or processed chum
salmon, but did not because fishing for chum salmon was closed due to a low
number of returning stock, or the department did not issue a permit to fish to
that member of the household for which the member applied;
(2) an applicant's direct dependence on
subsistence chum salmon fishing and ability to obtain food if subsistence uses
of Subdistrict 1 chum salmon are restricted or eliminated, based on the
relative availability of alternative sources of the chum salmon to the
applicant's household may provide up to 10 points; the point system is measured
by the formula of 10(W), in which W is the percent of chum salmon that the
applicant's household has taken in Subdistrict 1 over the four years
immediately preceding the date of application.
(b) Applications for a Tier II chum salmon
fishing permit are available at the department's office in Nome and will be
accepted from April 30 through May 30.
(c) A person may appeal a Tier II permit
allocation decision or score to the department within 10 days after the public
release of the list of names of those awarded a Tier II permit, as follows:
(1) an appeal must be submitted in writing or
by telephone; if an appeal is submitted in writing it must be postmarked or
hand delivered to the department within the 10-day period specified in this
section; if an appeal is submitted by telephone, it must be made within the
10-day appeal period; the department shall record telephone appeals by
electronic means;
(2) the
department shall provide a written decision on the appeal to the applicant by
first class mail within seven days after the department's receipt of the
appeal;
(3) a person that disagrees
with a decision issued under (2) of this subsection, regarding that person's
application, may appeal to the commissioner in writing within seven days after
the mailing of a decision by the department.
(d) The annual harvest limit for a Tier II
permit issued under
5
AAC 01.182 and this section is 100 chum salmon per
household.
The address to submit a written appeal under 5 AAC 01.184
is Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Division of Commercial Fisheries, 320 E.
Front Street, Pouch 1148, Nome, Alaska 99762. The address to submit a written
appeal to the commissioner under 5 AAC 01.184 is Alaska Department of Fish and
Game, Office of the Commissioner, P.O. Box 115526, Juneau, AK
99811-5526.
Authority:AS
16.05.251
AS
16.05.258
