Alaska Administrative Code
Title 5 - Fish and Game
Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries
Chapter 07 - Kuskokwim Area
Article 3 - Salmon Fishery
5 AAC 07.331 - Gillnet specifications and operations

(a) A gillnet must have a mesh size of six inches or less, and may not be more than 45 meshes in depth. The aggregate length of a set gillnet or drift gillnet may not exceed 50 fathoms, except that if the commissioner determines that there is a harvestable surplus of salmon, the commissioner may, by emergency order, close the fishing season and immediately reopen a season during which the aggregate length of a set gillnet or drift gillnet may not exceed 100 fathoms.

(b) Repealed 5/22/2016.

(c) Repealed 5/22/2016.

(d) Repealed 5/22/2016.

(e) 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.

(f) In District 4, between June 1 and July 15, only one gillnet may be operated per vessel.