Alaska Administrative Code
Title 5 - Fish and Game
Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries
Chapter 02 - Subsistence Shellfish Fishery
Article 2 - Southeastern Alaska-Yakutat Area
5 AAC 02.125 - Subsistence Tanner crab fishery

(1) the possession limit for Tanner crab is 30 crab per person, per day; only male Tanner crab five and one-half inches or greater in width of shell may be taken or possessed; male Tanner crab less than the minimum legal size and female Tanner crab that have been taken must be immediately returned to the water unharmed;

(2) repealed 7/14/85;

(3) a pot used to take Tanner crab under this section must have at least two circular escape rings on opposing vertical or sloping sides of the pot that each are not less than four and three-quarter inches inside diameter;

(4) no more than 10 ring nets per person, with a maximum of 20 ring nets per vessel, may be used to take Tanner crab;

(5) a person may not utilize a live holding facility to accumulate or pool multiple bag limits of Tanner crab.