Alaska Administrative Code
Title 5 - Fish and Game
Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries
Chapter 09 - Alaska Peninsula Area
Article 3 - Salmon Fishery
5 AAC 09.331 - Gillnet specifications and operations
Universal Citation: 5 AK Admin Code 09.331
Current through November 28, 2024
(a) The size and operation of drift gillnets is as follows:
(1) the aggregate length of drift gillnets on
a salmon fishing boat or in use by such boat shall be no more than 200 fathoms
in length;
(2) repealed
6/5/2016;
(3) in the Northwestern,
Unimak, and Southwestern Districts, no drift gillnet may exceed 90 meshes in
depth;
(4) in the Northern
District, a drift gillnet may not exceed 70 meshes in depth, except that in the
Nelson Lagoon Section a drift gillnet may not exceed 29 meshes in depth before
August 16 and 38 meshes in depth from August 16 through September 30; a drift
gillnet may have only one leadline, which may not exceed 60 fathoms per 50
fathoms of corkline, and no portion of the leadline may exceed 1.5 pounds per
fathom.
(b) The size and operation of set gillnets is as follows:
(1)
a set gillnet may be no more than 100 fathoms in length; the aggregate length
of set gillnets operated by a CFEC permit holder may be no more than 200
fathoms; no more than two gillnet sites may be operated by a CFEC permit
holder, except that in the
(A) Inner Port
Heiden Section a set gillnet may be no more than 50 fathoms in length; the
aggregate length of set gillnets operated by a CFEC permit holder may be no
more than 100 fathoms; and no more than two gillnet sites may be operated by a
CFEC permit holder;
(B) Ilnik
Lagoon (portion of the Ilnik Section) a set gillnet may be no more than 50
fathoms in length; the aggregate length of set gillnets operated by a CFEC
permit holder may be no more than 150 fathoms; and no more than three gillnet
sites may be operated by a CFEC permit holder;
(C) in the Northwestern, Unimak,
Southwestern, South Central, and Southeastern Districts, a set gillnet may not
exceed 90 meshes in depth; and
(2) set gillnets shall be operated in
substantially a straight line; no more than 30 fathoms of each set gillnet may
be used as a single hook;
(3)
repealed 5/31/2019;
(A) there is no minimum
mesh size in the
(i) Northern District and
the Northwestern District;
(ii)
South Unimak and Shumagin Islands fisheries described in
5
AAC 09.365(b) and (c) when the
commissioner opens fishing periods under
5
AAC 09.365(d);
(B) the mesh size of a set gillnet may not be
less than four and one-half inches beginning
(i) July 26 in the Southern District Mainland
fishery; and
(ii) August 1 in the
Shumagin Islands fishery;
(C) repealed 6/22/2001;
(4) in the Northern District, the maximum
depth of a set gillnet may not exceed 70 meshes in depth; except that in the
Nelson Lagoon Section, a set gillnet may not exceed 29 meshes in
depth;
(5) in the Unimak,
Southwestern, South Central, and Southeastern Districts, 25 fathoms of seine
webbing may be used on the shoreward end of a set gillnet;
(6) during hours of darkness, each set
gillnet must be marked with at least one red light on the seaward end of the
net, and at least one red light on both ends of the net if that net is more
than 300 feet from shore;
(7) in
Swanson Lagoon, within the Swanson Lagoon Section of the Northwestern District,
a person may not place a set gillnet in the water if that placement would
result in more than 50 percent of the channel east of 163° 38.75' W. long.
being blocked to the movement of boat traffic at any stage of the
tide;
(8) in the Ilnik Section of
the Northern District, a person may not place the seaward end of a set gillnet
more than one-half mile from the permanent vegetation line of the beach, except
that in the Cinder River Section and Seal Islands of the Ilnik Section a person
may not place the seaward end of a set gillnet more than one-half mile from the
mean high tide mark;
(9) in the
Unimak District during the June fishery described in
5
AAC 09.365, a person may not place the shoreward end
of a set gillnet further than one-half mile from the mean high tide
mark.
(c) Notwithstanding 5 AAC 39.250(c), in a set gillnet in the Northern District, the gillnet web may be single filament.
Authority:AS 16.05.251
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