Alaska Administrative Code
Title 5 - Fish and Game
Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries
Chapter 28 - Groundfish Fishery
Article 6 - Cook Inlet Area (Registration Area H)
5 AAC 28.330 - Lawful gear for Cook Inlet Area

(a) Except as provided in (b) of this section, groundfish may be taken only by pelagic trawls, hand troll gear, longlines, pots, or mechanical jigging machines.

(b) Groundfish taken incidentally by drift or set gillnet gear lawfully operated for salmon or herring may be retained.

(c) groundfish pot may not be attached to a line connected to another groundfish pot, except that in the Cook Inlet Area sableflsh fishery, groundfish pots may be connected by a line if at least one buoy is attached to each end of the line and each buoy is marked as specified in 5 AAC 28.050; not more than 15 groundfish pots may be attached to the same line.

(d) Repealed 6/25/2023

(e) Except as provided in (f) of this section, in a groundfish fishery for which more than one type of gear is legal gear, a person may have only one type of gear on board the vessel at any one time.

(f) In a directed fishery for lingcod, rockfish, or Pacific cod during a state-waters season as specified in 5 AAC 28.367, those species may be taken by mechanical jigging machines and hand troll gear at the same time. If mechanical jigging machines and hand troll gear are being used under this subsection, only that gear may be on board the vessel.

(g) Lingcod and rockfish may be taken only by mechanical jigging machines and hand troll gear.

(h) Pacific cod may be taken only by groundfish pots, mechanical jigging machines, and hand troll gear during a state-waters season, as specified in 5 AAC 28.367.

(i) In the Cook Inlet Area, a mechanical jigging machine used to take groundfish may not have more than