Alaska Administrative Code
Title 5 - Fish and Game
Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries
Chapter 28 - Groundfish Fishery
Article 10 - Bering Sea - Aleutian Islands Area (Registration Area O)
5 AAC 28.690 - Vessel length restrictions for the Bering Sea-Aleutian Islands Area
Current through August 30, 2024
(a) A person may not use a vessel that is longer than 60 feet in overall length to take rockfish in the waters of Sitkin Sound and the surrounding area enclosed by lines from Cape Adagdak northeast to Swallow Head to Teapot Rock southeast to a point on the northwesternmost tip of Tagalak Island, and then from the southernmost tip of Tagalak Island to the southernmost tip of Umak Island, and then from the southernmost tip of Umak Island south southwest to Cape Azimas, and then from Cape Azimas west southwest to the southernmost tip of Kagalaska Island, and then from the southernmost tip of Kagalaska Island to Boot Point on Adak Island, and then from Boot Point southwest to Cape Kagigkak, to 51º 53' N. lat., 176º 45.75' W. long., south to Careful Point.
(b) Repealed 10/16/2011.
(c) In the Bering Sea-Aleutian Islands Area, a vessel participating in a parallel season for Pacific cod with longline gear may not be more than 58 feet in overall length.
(d) In this section, "overall length" means the straight line length between extremities of the vessel, excluding anchor rollers.
Authority:AS 16.05.251