Alaska Administrative Code
Title 5 - Fish and Game
Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries
Chapter 27 - Herring Fishery
Article 13 - Kuskokwim Area (Registration Area W)
5 AAC 27.887 - Seine specifications and operations for Kuskokwim Area
Universal Citation: 5 AK Admin Code 27.887
Current through August 30, 2024
(a) A herring purse seine may not exceed 100 fathoms in length and may not be more than 625 meshes in depth, of which no more than 600 meshes may have a mesh size larger than one and one-half inches.
(b) In the Nunivak Island District, during the open herring fishing season described in 5 AAC 27.880, a herring fishing vessel may not have on board, or have on a vessel towed by it
(1)
more than a single herring purse seine as described in (a) of this section;
or
(2) any other assembled purse
seine as described in
5
AAC 39.105(d) (4).
(c) Herring may not be retained in a purse seine for more than 36 hours after the closure of a herring fishing period.
Authority:AS 16.05.251
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