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 27.960 - Harvest strategy for Bering Sea-Kotzebue Area

(a) The department shall manage the Norton Sound District herring sac roe fishery so that the seine harvest does not exceed 10 percent of the total herring sac roe harvest projection as published by the department. The board realizes that herring biomass projections, inseason assessments, and harvest monitoring by gear type are not accurate; therefore, the department may not adjust the harvest projection after it has been published.

(b) The harvest limit in Subdistrict 7 of the Norton Sound District from September 1 through November 15 is 10 metric tons of herring.

(c) Repealed 5/11/85.

(d) Repealed 5/11/85.

(e) Repealed 5/11/85.

(f) Repealed 5/11/85.

(g) The department shall manage the Port Clarence District herring sac roe fishery so that 10 percent of the available harvest is reserved for the herring food and bait fishery.

(h) In the Norton Sound District, the guideline harvest level for the wild herring spawn-on-kelp fishery described in 5 AAC 27.934, is 30 metric tons.