Alaska Administrative Code
Title 5 - Fish and Game
Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries
Chapter 21 - Cook Inlet Area
Article 3 - Salmon Fishery
5 AAC 21.372 - Tutka Bay Lagoon Salmon Hatchery Management Plan

(a) The department, in consultation with the hatchery operator, shall manage the Tutka Bay Subdistrict and the Paint River Subdistrict to provide for Common property fisheries and to achieve the hatchery broadstock and cost recovery goals set by the hatchery operator and approved by the department for the Tutka Bay Lagoon Hatchery. The department will manage the sport fisheries in accordance with regulations in 5 AAC 56 - 62 and 5 AAC 75. The commissioner may issue emergency orders to liberalize or restrict sport fisheries based on achievement of broodstock goals.

(b) The Tutka Bay Lagoon Hatchery special harvest areas are as follows:

(c) Notwithstanding 5 AAC 21.320 and 5 AAC 21.330, and except as otherwise provided by emergency order issued under AS 16.05.060, the permit holder for the Tutka Bay Lagoon Hatchery, and the permit holder's agents, contractors, or employees authorized under 5 AAC 40.005(g) may harvest salmon in the Tutka Bay Lagoon Hatchery Special Harvest Area, Paint River Special Harvest Area, and Halibut Cove Lagoon Special Harvest Area from 6:00 a.m. June 15 until 6:00 p.m. September 15 using purse seines, hand purse seines, and beach seines.