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 9 - Chignik Area
5 AAC 01.470 - Lawful gear and gear specifications
Current through August 30, 2024
(a) Salmon may be taken by seines and gillnets, or with gear specified on a subsistence fishing permit, except that in Chignik Lake salmon may not be taken with purse seines. A gillnet may not be set, staked, anchored, or otherwise fixed in a stream while it obstructs more than one-half of the width of the waterway and any channel or side channel of the waterway.
(b) Fish other than salmon may be taken by gear listed in 5 AAC 01.010(a), unless restricted under the terms of a subsistence fishing permit.
(c) Halibut may be taken for subsistence purposes only by a single handheld line with no more than two hooks attached.
At its January 5 - 11, 1993 meeting, the Board of Fisheries readopted 5 AAC 01.470 in its entirety without change, under ch. 1, SSSLA 1992 (the 1992 subsistence law), which repealed and reenacted AS 16.05.258.
Authority:AS 16.05.251
AS 16.05.258
