Alaska Administrative Code
Title 5 - Fish and Game
Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries
Chapter 24 - Prince William Sound Area
Article 3 - Salmon Fishery
5 AAC 24.360 - Copper River District Salmon Management Plan

(a) The department shall manage the Copper River District commercial salmon fishery to achieve a sustainable escapement goal of 360,000 - 750,000 sockeye salmon into the Copper River.

(b) The department shall manage the Copper River District commercial salmon fishery to achieve an inriver goal of salmon, as measured at the sonar counter near Miles Lake, based on the total of the following categories:

Spawning escapementlower end of sockeye salmon sustainable escapement goal

17,500 other salmon Glennallen Subdistrict subsistence fishery 61,000 - 82,500 salmon Chitina Subdistrict personal use fishery 100,000 - 150,000 salmon Sport fishery 15,000 salmon Hatchery brood (sockeye salmon) estimated annually Hatchery surplus (sockeye salmon) estimated annually TOTAL announced annually

(c) Repealed 4/24/2009.

(d) Repealed 3/30/2000.