Alaska Administrative Code
Title 5 - Fish and Game
Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries
Chapter 28 - Groundfish Fishery
Article 2 - General Specifications
5 AAC 28.015 - Guiding policy on groundfish fisheries resource management

(1) conservation of the groundfish resource to ensure sustained yield, which requires that the total allowable catch in any fishery be based upon the biological abundance of the stock;

(2) minimization of bycatch of other associated fish and shellfish and prevention of the localized depletion of stocks;

(3) conservation of the habitat and other associated fish and shellfish species from nonsustainable fishing practices with consideration of ecosystem interactions;

(4) maintenance of slower harvest rates by methods-and-means and time-and-area restrictions to ensure adequate reporting and analysis necessary for management of the fishery and ensuring adherence to annual and seasonal total allowable catch limits;

(5) extension of the length of fishing seasons by methods-and-means and time-and-area restrictions to provide for the maximum benefit to the state and local areas of the state;

(6) harvest of the resource in a manner that emphasizes the quality and value of the fishery product;

(7) provision of opportunities for subsistence, sport, commercial, and personal use fisheries;

(8) cooperation with federal agencies associated with groundfish fisheries;

(9) management of the groundfish fisheries based on information that, in the commissioner's discretion, will tend to promote the purposes of state statutes pertaining to fisheries management.