Alaska Administrative Code
Title 5 - Fish and Game
Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries
Chapter 31 - Shrimp Fishery
Article 9 - Registration Area G (Outer Cook Inlet)
5 AAC 31.426 - Lawful gear for Registration Area G

A shrimp pot must have at least two adjacent vertical sides, or near-vertical sides, excluding tunnels, completely composed of uncovered, rigid mesh. A shrimp pot that does not have a definable side, including round pots, must have rigid mesh panels covering a minimum of 50 percent of the vertical or near-vertical surface area of the pot. The rigid mesh on a shrimp pot must be large enough to allow the unaided passage of a maximum 12 inch long, seven-eighths inch diameter round, wooden peg without deforming the opening, except for the selvage.

Authority:AS 16.05.251