Alaska Administrative Code
Title 5 - Fish and Game
Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries
Chapter 28 - Groundfish Fishery
Article 4 - Eastern Gulf of Alaska Area (Registration Area A)
5 AAC 28.106 - Eastern Gulf of Alaska Area registration

(a) The Eastern Gulf of Alaska Area is a nonexclusive registration area for Pacific cod: notwithstanding 5 AAC 28.020(a), before a person uses a vessel to operate gear to take Pacific cod in a directed Pacific cod fishery in the Eastern Gulf of Alaska Area, the vessel owner or the owner's agent shall register the vessel with the department by completing a registration form with the vessel's name, management areas the vessel will be fishing in, contact number, and the signature of the owner or owner's agent.

(b) Notwithstanding 5 AAC 28.020(a), before a person uses a vessel to operate gear to take sablefish in the Northern Southeast Inside (NSEI) Subdistrict or the Southern Southeast Inside (SSEI) Subdistrict, the vessel owner, or the owner's agent, shall register the vessel with the department as follows:

(c) Notwithstanding 5 AAC 28.020(a), before a person uses a vessel to operate gear to take lingcod in a directed lingcod fishery in the Eastern Gulf of Alaska Area, the vessel owner or the owner's agent shall register the vessel with the department by completing a registration form with the vessel's name, management areas the vessel will be fishing in, and the signature of the owner or owner's agent.

(d) Notwithstanding 5 AAC 28.020(a), before a person uses a vessel to operate gear to take demersal shelf rockfish in a directed fishery in the Eastern Gulf of Alaska Area, the vessel owner or owner's agent shall register the vessel with the department by completing a registration from with the vessel's name, management areas the vessel will be fishing, contact number, and the signature of the owner or owner's agent. A separate registration is required for the winter and fall fisheries described in 5 AAC 28.111(a).

(e) Notwithstanding 5 AAC 28.020(a), before a person uses a vessel to operate gear to take black rockfish in a directed black rockfish fishery in the Eastern Gulf of Alaska Area, the vessel owner or owner's agent shall register the vessel with the department by completing a registration form with the vessel's name, management areas the vessel will be fishing, contact number, and the signature of the owner or owner's agent.

(f) The Icy Bay Subdistrict is a superexclusive registration area for the directed commercial lingcod fishery. Notwithstanding 5 AAC 28.020(b), a CFEC permit holder who participates in the directed commercial taking of lingcod in the Icy Bay Subdistrict may not participate or have participated in the directed commercial taking of lingcod as a CFEC permit holder in any other registration area or portion of a registration area during that calendar year. A vessel used in the directed commercial taking of lingcod in the Icy Bay Subdistrict may not be used or have been used in the directed commercial taking of lingcod in any other registration area or portion of a registration area during that calendar year.

(g) The Southeast District is a superexclusive area for the commercial flatfish trawl fishery. Notwithstanding 5 AAC 28.020(a), before a vessel is used to take flatfish in the commercial flatfish trawl fishery in the Southeast District, the vessel owner, or the owner's authorized agent, must register the vessel with the department. The CFEC permit holder that will be operating the gear from the vessel being used and registered to take flatfish under this section must also register with the department. During the calendar year of registration, the