Current through August 30, 2024
(a)
In the Northern District, salmon may be taken in the
(1) Cinder River Section: with drift gillnets
or set gillnets only;
(2) Inner
Port Heiden Section: with drift gillnets or set gillnets only;
(3) Ilnik Section: with drift gillnets or set
gillnets only;
(4) Three Hills
Section: with drift gillnets only;
(5) Bear River Section: with drift gillnets,
purse seines, and hand purse seines;
(6) Port Moller Bight Section: with drift
gillnets, set gillnets, purse seines, and hand purse seines;
(7) Herendeen-Moller Bay Section: with drift
gillnets, set gillnets, purse seines, and hand purse seines;
(8) Nelson Lagoon Section: with drift
gillnets or set gillnets;
(9) Black
Hills Section: with drift gillnets or set gillnets only;
(10) Outer Port Heiden Section: with drift
gillnets only.
(b) In
the Northwestern District, salmon may be taken with drift gillnets, set
gillnets, purse seines, and hand purse seines.
(c) In the Unimak District, salmon may be
taken with drift gillnets, set gillnets, purse seines, and hand purse seines.
Salmon may be taken by gillnet gear during periods when the seine fishery is
closed by emergency order due to the presence of immature salmon.
(d) In the Southwestern District, salmon may
be taken only with purse seines, hand purse seines, and set gillnets, except
that
(1) salmon may also be taken with drift
gillnets
(A) in the waters of the Ikatan Bay
Section west of a line from Kenmore Head to Hague Rocks to the easternmost tip
of the Sanak Islands;
(B) from June
1 through June 30, in the waters
(i) south
and east of a line from Cape Pankof Light at 54° 39.60' N. lat., 163°
03.70' W. long., to Thin Point at 54° 57.32' N. lat., 162° 33.50' W.
long.; and
(ii) south of a line
from Thin Point at 54° 57.32' N. lat., 162° 33.50' W. long., to the
northernmost tip of Stag Point at 54° 59.10' N. lat., 162° 18.10' W.
long., on Deer Island to the southernmost tip of Dolgoi Cape at 55° 03.15'
N. lat., 161° 44.35' W. long., on Dolgoi Island and south of the latitude
of the northeastern tip of Dolgoi Island at 55° 07.50' N. lat., 161°
38.30' W. long.;
(2) repealed 3/19/78;
(3) salmon may be taken by gillnet gear
during periods when the seine fishery is closed by emergency order due to the
presence of immature salmon.
(e) In the South Central District, salmon may
be taken with set gillnets, purse seines, and hand purse seines, except that
(1) repealed 3/19/78;
(2) within Canoe Bay, salmon may be taken
only with purse seines and hand purse seines;
(3) repealed 6/2/88;
(4) salmon may be taken by set gillnet gear
during periods when the seine fishery is closed by emergency order due to the
presence of immature salmon.
(f) In the Southeastern District, salmon may
be taken only with set gillnets, purse seines, and hand purse seines, except
that
(1) salmon may be taken only with purse
seines and hand purse seines in the area between Popof Head and Dark Cliffs
(Popof Island) from June 1 through August 31; however, salmon may be taken by
set gillnet during periods when the seine fishery is closed by emergency order
due to the presence of immature salmon;
(2) repealed 3/19/78;
(3) salmon may be taken only with set
gillnets from June 1 through July 10 in the Beaver Bay, Balboa Bay, Southwest
Stepovak, Northwest Stepovak, Stepovak Flats, and East Stepovak Sections;
however, if the department determines that the Orzinski Lake sockeye salmon
escapement objectives have been exceeded as described in
5
AAC 09.360(k), beginning July 1, in
addition to set gillnet gear, the commissioner may open, by emergency order,
the waters of Orzinski Bay west of 160° 04.25' W. long. to fishing with
purse seine and hand purse seine gear;
(4) salmon may be taken by set gillnet during
periods when the seine fishery is closed by emergency order due to presence of
immature salmon.
(g)
Notwithstanding
5
AAC 39.240(a),
(1) a CFEC set gillnet permit holder may use a registered salmon
fishing vessel, when it has set gillnet gear on board, to tow another
registered salmon fishing vessel with set gillnet gear on board if the permit
holder for the vessel being towed is on board one of the vessels;
(2) a registered salmon fishing vessel may
transport no more than hvo legal limits of set gillnct fishing gear in the
aggregate in an area that is open or closed to salmon fishing if two permit
holders arc on board the vessel, provided that, before transporting gear in an
area that is open to salmon fishing under this subsection, the permit holders
must receive authorization from the department and comply with any conditions
specified.
Authority:AS
16.05.060
AS
16.05.251
