Alaska Administrative Code
Title 5 - Fish and Game
Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries
Chapter 27 - Herring Fishery
Article 10 - Alaska Peninsula-Aleutian Islands Area (Registration Area M)
5 AAC 27.655 - Dutch Harbor Food and Bait Herring Fishery Management Plan

(a) The herring available for harvest in the Dutch Harbor food and bait herring fishery is provided under 5 AAC 27.865(b)(4).

(b) If the harvest by the food and bait herring fishery in a given year is greater than the amount allocated to that fishery under (a) of this section, the excess tonnage is subtracted from the following year's allocation to that fishery. If the harvest by the food and bait herring fishery in a given year is less than the amount allocated to that fishery under (a) of this section, no effect on future allocations to that fishery will occur.

(c) In the Dutch Harbor food and bait fishery, the department may reserve up to 100 tons from the allocation specified in (a) of this section for the purposes of an experimental herring seine and pound fishery conducted in compliance with the terms of a permit issued by the commissioner or commissioner's designee.

(d) For purposes of this section, "Dutch Harbor food and bait fishery" is the herring food and bait fishery that occurs during the seasons described in 5 AAC 27.610(e).