Alaska Administrative Code
Title 5 - Fish and Game
Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries
Chapter 05 - Yukon Area
Article 3 - Salmon Fishery
5 AAC 05.335 - Minimum distance between units of gear

Universal Citation: 5 AK Admin Code 05.335

Current through August 30, 2024

(a) In District 1, no person may set or operate any part of a set gillnet within 300 feet of any part of another set gillnet.

(b) In District 2, no person may set or operate any part of a set gillnet within 200 feet of any part of another set gillnet.

(c) In Districts 4, 5, and 6, a person may not set or operate commercial fishing gear within 200 feet of other commercial, personal use, or subsistence fishing gear, except as follows:

(1) in District 4 from Old Paradise Village upstream to a point four miles upstream from Anvik there is no minimum distance requirement between fish wheels;

(2) at the site approximately one mile upstream from Ruby on the south bank of the Yukon River between ADF&G regulatory markers containing the area known locally as the "Slide," there is no minimum distance requirement between subsistence gear and commercial gear.

Authority:AS 16.05.251

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