(b) The herring harvest
quota for bait pound operations is as follows:
(1) Scow Bay: 100 tons;
(2) Section 13-B: 100 tons;
(3) Lisianski Inlet: 25 tons;
(4) Section 1-E: 10 percent of the guideline
harvest level for the West Behm Canal stock;
(5) Sections 11-A, 15-B, and 15-C: 120 tons;
if there are no active herring bait pound permits issued by April 1 of a year,
the remainder of the 120-ton harvest quota will be allocated to the commercial
sac roe purse seine fishery;
(6)
District 7: 10 percent of the guideline harvest level for the Ernest Sound
stock; the harvest quota for the winter food and bait fishery is 90 percent of
that guideline harvest level; if there are no active herring bait pound permits
issued by March 15 of a year, the unharvested remainder of that guideline
harvest level will be allocated to the herring spawn-on-kelp fishery; after the
spawn-on-kelp fishery in District 7 is closed, any remaining unharvested
portion of that guideline harvest level will be allocated to the bait pound
fishery;
(7) District 12: 10
percent of the guideline harvest level for the Tenakee Inlet stock; the harvest
quota for the winter food and bait fishery is 90 percent of that guideline
harvest level; if there are no active herring bait pound permits issued by
March 15 of a year, the unharvested remainder of that guideline harvest level
will be allocated to the herring spawn on kelp fishery; after the spawn-on-kelp
fishery in District 12 is closed, any remaining unharvested portion of that
guideline harvest level will be allocated to the bait pound fishery;
(8) Section 13-C: in the bait pound fishery,
herring may be harvested only after the spawn-on-kelp fishery is closed and
only if the guideline harvest level has not been taken;
(9) for districts and sections in the
Southeastern Alaska Area not specified in this subsection: the department may
open a bait pound fishery in a district or section that has a harvestable
surplus as determined by annual department stock assessments; in a fishery
opened under this paragraph, no more than 100 tons of herring may be
harvested.
(f) The guideline harvest
level for the District 10 set gillnet fishery described in
5
AAC 27.110(b) (2)(C) is the portion
of the annual harvest amount established for the District 10 winter food and
bait fishery under
5
AAC 27.190 that is not taken by that
fishery.
(g) The guideline harvest
level for the herring sac roe fishery in Sections 13-A and 13-B shall be
established by the department and will be a harvest rate percentage that is not
less than 12 percent, not more than 20 percent, and within that range shall be
determined by the following formula:
Harvest Rate Percentage = 2 + 8 [Spawning
Biomass (in tons)] /20,000)
The fishery will not be conducted if the spawning biomass
is less than 25,000 tons.
(h) For purposes of this section, "active
herring bait pound permit" means a permit that allows the holder of that permit
to capture and retain herring in a herring bait pound.
