Alaska Administrative Code
Title 5 - Fish and Game
Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries
Chapter 27 - Herring Fishery
Article 8 - Kodiak Area (Registration Area K)
5 AAC 27.525 - Seine specifications and operations for Kodiak Area

(a) From April 1 through July 31, a purse seine may not exceed 18 fathoms stretch measure in depth or 100 fathoms in length. The depth shall be determined by using a stretch measure of the web from the cork line to the bottom of the net, including any lines that hang below the lead line.

(b) Repealed 4/14/82.

(c) From August 1 through February 28, a purse seine may not be more than 1,625 meshes in depth, including meshes used as chafing gear, or more than 150 fathoms in length.

(d) From April 1 through July 31, an Area K CFEC sac roe seine permit holder may use only one vessel to take herring - either the vessel identified on the holder's permit or a replacement vessel that the holder has registered, in person, at the department's Kodiak office. Only one seine vessel at a time may be registered as a replacement vessel.

(e) From March 1 through April 13, a person may make practice purse seine sets from a purse seine vessel in the Kodiak Area within one-half mile of the Sealand dock. All fish caught shall be immediately released back to the water unharmed.