Alaska Administrative Code
Title 5 - Fish and Game
Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries
Chapter 28 - Groundfish Fishery
Article 7 - Kodiak Area (Registration Area K)
5 AAC 28.430 - Lawful gear for Kodiak Area

(a) A groundfish pot may not be attached to a line connected to another groundfish pot.

(b) Repealed 6/25/2023

(c) Repealed 7/21/99.

(d) A vessel registered as a salmon seine vessel under 5 AAC 39.120 may not be used to take groundfish with seine gear from June 1 through October 31 unless the vessel owner, or the owner's agent, has registered the vessel as specified in 5 AAC 28.406(c).

(e) Rockfish may be taken in a directed fishery for rockfish only by mechanical jigging machine and hand troll gear.

(f) In the Kodiak Area, a mechanical jigging machine used to take groundfish may not have more than

(g) In the Kodiak Area, a vessel using mechanical jigging machines in the directed black rockfish fishery or state-waters Pacific cod fishery may have no more than 500 hooks, in the aggregate, deployed in the water and on board the vessel, of which no more than 180 hooks may be deployed in the water as described in (f) of this section.

(h) Lingcod may be taken in a directed fishery for lingcod only by mechanical jigging machine and hand troll gear.