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 28.360 - Cook Inlet Sablefish Management Plan

Universal Citation: 5 AK Admin Code 28.360

Current through February 24, 2025

(a) Sablefish may be retained only during an open directed sablefish fishery on board a vessel that is registered to participate in the Cook Inlet sablefish fishery.

(b) An operator of a vessel participating in the Cook Inlet Area sablefish fishery shall obtain sablefish log sheets provided by the department. The vessel operator must have the log sheets on board the vessel at all times and must submit to the department no later than seven days following delivery completed log sheets that correspond with each ADF&G sablefish fish ticket.

(1) A log sheet described in this section must:
(A) include the date, the specific location of harvest by latitude and longitude, the number of hooks fished or the number of pots fished, the average depth, and the time gear is deployed and hauled, for each set;

(B) include for the target species, and for each bycatch species, the number of fish retained and discarded for each set;

(C) be updated not later than 11 :59 p.m. local time on the day after the day of operation; and

(D) be made available to a local representative of the department upon request.

(2) A person may not make a false entry in a log sheet described in this section.

(c) An operator of a vessel participating in the Cook Inlet sablefish fishery may not land or have on board the vessel more than 3, 000 pounds (round weight) of sablefish in any two consecutive days.

(d) At least six hours before landing sablefish, an operator of a vessel participating in the Cook Inlet Area sablefish fishery must notify the department by telephone, to a telephone number specified in writing by the department on the registration forms at the time of registration, the following information:

(1) vessel name and ADF & G number;

(2) date and location of landing, and estimated time of arrival;

(3) name of fish buyer or processor;

(4) estimated number of pounds of sablefish on board the vessel;

(5) whether the catch is dressed fish or whole (in the round) fish.

(e) A vessel retaining sablefish in federal waters may not operate gear in state waters of the Cook Inlet Area during the same trip.

Authority:AS 16.05.251

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