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 09.366 - Post-June Salmon Management Plan for the South Alaska Peninsula

(a) The purpose of this management plan is to provide management guidelines to the department for the management of the post-June salmon fisheries along the South Alaska Peninsula, to provide for the harvest of local stocks in terminal harvest areas, and to establish fishing periods for the South Alaska Peninsula salmon fisheries outside of terminal harvest areas.

(b) The commissioner shall establish, to the extent practicable, concurrent fishing periods in the Southeastern, South Central, Southwestern, and Unimak Districts.

(c) Fishing periods may be established under this section only as follows:

(d) Notwithstanding (c)(1) of this section, from July 6 through July 31, the commissioner may establish, by emergency order, fishing periods as follows:

(e) Repealed 6/4/2004.

(f) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, the commissioner may open, by emergency order, the following terminal harvest areas to salmon fishing from July 6 through July 21:

(g) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, the commissioner may open, by emergency order, the terminal harvest areas specified in (f) of this section and the following terminal harvest areas to salmon fishing from July 22 through July 31:

(h) The commissioner may open, by emergency order, the commercial salmon fishery in the South Alaska Peninsula as follows:

(i) The department shall conduct a seine test fishery in the Shumagin Islands Section to assess the presence of immature salmon. If 100 or more immature salmon, per set, are present, the commissioner shall close, by emergency order, the seine fishery in an area to be determined by the department. If the seine fishery is closed in an area under this subsection, the set gillnet fishery shall remain open in that area. For the purposes of this subsection, "immature salmon, per set, are present" means the number of immature king, sockeye, coho, and chum salmon observed to be gilled in the seine web.

(j) Notwithstanding (c) and (d) of this section, commercial salmon fishing will close in the waters of the Volcano Bay Section of the Southwestern District south and east of a line from Arch Point at 55° 12.30' N. lat., 161° 54.30' W. long. to a point on Belkofski Peninsula at 55° 09.50' N. lat., 161° 57.80' W. long. and in the portion of the West Pavlof Bay Section south of Black Point (55° 24.48' N. lat.), if the harvest of sockeye salmon from the South Central District, the Volcano Bay Section of the Southwestern District, and the Belkofski Bay Section, excluding those waters inside of a line between Vodapoini Point and Bold Cape, fro in the opening of the commercial salmon season through July 25 reaches 191,000 sockeye salmon based on fish ticket information. If the waters described in this subsection are closed, that portion of the West Pavlof Bay Section south of Black Point (55° 24.48' N. lat.) will reopen to commercial salmon fishing on July 17 consistent with (c) and (d) of this section.