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 21.377 - Port Graham Salmon Hatchery Management Plan

(a) The department, in consultation with the hatchery operator, shall manage the Port Graham Subdistrict to provide for a common property fishery and to achieve the hatchery broadstock and cost recovery goals set by the hatchery operator and approved by the department for the Port Graham salmon 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 Port Graham Special Harvest Area consists of the marine waters of Port Graham Subdistrict in the Southern District south of a line from the southern tip of Passage Island at 151° 53 .08' W. long., 59° 22.00' N. lat., to a point offshore at 59° 21.45' N. lat., 151° 50.05' W. long, to a point on shore at 59° 20.83' N. lat., 151° 48.53' W. long.

(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 Port Graham Salmon Hatchery, and the permit holder's agents, contractors, or employees authorized under 5 AAC 40.005(g) may harvest salmon in the Port Graham Salmon Hatchery Special Harvest Area from 6:00 a.m. July IS until 6:00 p.m. September 15 using purse seines, hand purse seines, and beach seines.