Alaska Administrative Code
Title 5 - Fish and Game
Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries
Chapter 28 - Groundfish Fishery
Article 9 - South Alaska Peninsula Area (Registration Area M)
5 AAC 28.570 - Lawful gear for South Alaska Peninsula Area

Universal Citation: 5 AK Admin Code 28.570

Current through August 30, 2024

(a) Unless otherwise specified in this chapter, groundfish may be taken with the gear specified in 5 AAC 28.050.

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

(c) 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 28.556(c).

(d) In the South Alaska Peninsula Area, a mechanical jigging machine used to take groundfish may not have more than

(1) five lines; and

(2) 30 hooks per line.

(e) Repealed 6/25/2023

(f) Sablefish may be taken only with pots, longlines, mechanical jigging machines, and hand troll gear as described in 5 AAC 28.640

Authority:AS 16.05.251

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