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 3 - Prince William Sound Area
5 AAC 02.210 - Subsistence shrimp fishery

(1) repealed 7/12/86;

(2) repealed 7/12/86;

(3) in addition to the marking requirements specified in 5 AAC 02.010(e) (1), each keg or buoy must also be plainly and legibly inscribed with the vessel name or the division of motor vehicles boat registration number, issued under 2 AAC 70, of the vessel used to operate the pot;

(4) all shrimp pots must have at least two adjacent vertical sides, or near-vertical sides, excluding tunnels, completely composed of uncovered net webbing or rigid mesh; pots that do not have a definable side, including round pots, must have net webbing or rigid mesh panels covering a minimum of 50 percent of the vertical, or near-vertical, surface area of the pot; the net webbing or rigid mesh on all pots must be large enough to allow the unaided passage of a maximum 12-inch long, seven-eighths inch diameter, round wooden peg without deforming the opening, except for the selvage;

(5) a person may take shrimp only from April 15 through September 15;

(6) no more than five pots per person, and no more than five pots per vessel, may be used;

(7) a person may take shrimp only under a permit issued by the department as specified in 5 AAC 02.015.