Alaska Administrative Code
Title 5 - Fish and Game
Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries
Chapter 27 - Herring Fishery
Article 14 - Bering Sea-Kotzebue Area (Registration Area Q)
5 AAC 27.934 - Wild herring spawn-on-kelp harvest specifications and operations for the Norton Sound District

(1) wild herring spawn on kelp may be taken only during periods established by emergency order;

(2) wild herring spawn on kelp may be taken only by hand picking and by a hand-held rake;

(3) only a holder of a valid CFEC Norton Sound limited entry or interim-use herring permit may harvest wild herring spawn on kelp under this section; participation includes harvesting wild herring spawn on kelp by hand or hand-held rake, placing wild herring spawn on kelp in containers at the point of harvest, and transporting the containers of wild herring spawn on kelp to a registered buyer or tender;

(4) a person that participates in the wild herring spawn-on-kelp fishery may not also participate in the gillnet, beach seine herring sac roe fishery, or the herring pound spawn-on-kelp fishery in the Norton Sound District during the same year;

(5) all wild herring spawn on kelp harvested in the Norton Sound District must be in containers at the close of the fishing period.