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 04.390 - Subdistricts 2 and 3 of the Norton Sound District Salmon Management Plan
Universal Citation: 5 AK Admin Code 04.390
Current through February 24, 2025
(a) repelaed 6/28/2019;
(b) The department shall manage salmon fisheries in the Subdistricts 2 and 3 as follows:
(1) in the commercial chum salmon
fishery,
(A) repealed 6/28/2019;
(i) Kwiniuk River: 11,500 - 23,000 chum
salmon; and
(ii) Tubutulik River:
9,200 - 18,400 chum salmon;
(B) the chum salmon harvest may not exceed
15,000 fish before the department's mid-July run assessment in Subdistrict
2;
(C) the fishery may occur only
if the department projects that chum salmon escapement goals will be achieved
and the harvestable surplus will more than meet subsistence needs;
(2) a commercial pink salmon
fishery may occur only if subsistence needs are expected to be met and chum
salmon escapement goals achieved, or the department determines that, after July
6 in Subdistrict 3 and after July 14 in Subdistrict 2, there is a harvestable
surplus of pink salmon and that a directed pink salmon commercial fishery will
not have a significant impact on escapement goals or subsistence use of chum
salmon;
(3) in the commercial coho
salmon fishery, the fishery may occur only when the department determines that
further restrictions would have no impact on achieving chum salmon escapement
goals;
(4) the commissioner may not
place restrictions on subsistence fishing for chum salmon by emergency order,
unless all directed chum salmon commercial fishing has been closed and sport
fishing has been appropriately restricted in the subdistrict as provided in
5
AAC 01.180 -
5
AAC 01.184.
Authority:AS 16.05.251
AS 16.05.258
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