Alaska Administrative Code
Title 5 - Fish and Game
Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries
Chapter 04 - Norton Sound-Port Clarence Area
Article 3 - Salmon Fishery
5 AAC 04.331 - Gillnet specifications and operations

(a) The aggregate length of a gillnet may not exceed 100 fathoms, except that if the commissioner determines that there is a harvestable surplus of pink salmon, the commissioner may, by emergency order, close the fishing season and immediately reopen a season during which a set gillnet may not exceed

(b) No gillnet gear may be operated in a manner to obstruct more than one-half the width of any waterway. In the intertidal zone this restriction applies at all stages of the tide.

(c) In the Norton Sound District, no person may take salmon with a gillnet that has a mesh size larger than

(d) In the Norton Sound District, no more than 200 fathoms of gillnet in the aggregate may be operated from a vessel.

(e) Notwithstanding (c) of this section, during times when the commissioner determines it to be necessary for the conservation of chum salmon, the commissioner, by emergency order, may close the fishing season in any portion of the Norton Sound District and immediately reopen the season in that portion during which a person may not take salmon with a gillnet that has a mesh size smaller than seven and one-half inches.