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 24.368 - Wally Noerenberg (Esther Island) Hatchery Management Plan

(a) The department, in consultation with the hatchery operator, shall manage the Esther Subdistrict, the Perry Island Subdistrict, and the Granite Bay Subdistrict to achieve the corporation's escapement goal for the Wally Noerenberg (Esther Island) salmon hatchery. The Granite Bay Subdistrict will be closed only if the Esther and the Perry Island Subdistricts are not achieving adequate hatchery escapement.

(b) Deleted 4/19/91.

(c) The Wally Noerenberg Hatchery Terminal Harvest Area consists of the waters of Lake Bay: and Quillian Bay inside of a line from Hodgkin Point at 60° 46.93' N. lat., 148° 02.10' W. long, to Esther Light at 60° 47.14' N. lat., 148° 06.02' W. long., excluding the waters of the Wally Noerenberg Special Harvest Area.

(d) The Wally Noerenberg Hatchery Special Harvest Area consists of the waters of Lake Bay north of 60° 47.56' N. lat.

(e) Notwithstanding 5 AAC 24.320 and 5 AAC 24.330, and except as otherwise provided by emergency order, a corporation holding a permit under AS 16.10.400 for the Wally Noerenberg Hatchery, and an agent, contractor, or employee of that corporation who is authorized under 5 AAC 40.005(g), may harvest salmon within the Wally Noerenberg Special Harvest Area from 6:00 a.m. May 25 through 6:00 p.m. September 15, using purse seines, hand purse seines, and beach seines.

(f) The commissioner may open, by emergency order, a season and establish fishing periods during which seine gear may be used in the Esther Subdistrict for the purpose of preventing deterioration of fish quality of the harvestable surplus of chum salmon that is not being adequately harvested by the drift gillnet fleet.