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 28.086 - Parallel groundfish fishery emergency order authority

(a) In addition to the provisions of this chapter and the reporting requirements specified in 5 AAC 39.130, and notwithstanding any contrary provisions of this chapter, the commissioner may open and close, by emergency order, a parallel groundfish fishery during which area closures, gear and vessel size restrictions, and bycatch control measures may be imposed as the commissioner determines are reasonably necessary to correspond with federal groundfish fishery management measures in adjacent federal waters.

(b) For the purposes of this section, "parallel groundfish fishery" means a groundfish fishery in state waters opened by the commissioner, by emergency order, to correspond with a federal groundfish fishery in adjacent federal waters.