Alaska Administrative Code
Title 5 - Fish and Game
Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries
Chapter 34 - King Crab Fishery
Article 5 - Registration Area A (Southeastern)
5 AAC 34.111 - Section 11-A Red and Blue King Crab Management and Allocation Plan

(a) The Board of Fisheries (board) find that there exists strong competing demands between the personal use and commercial user groups for red and blue king crab in Section 11-A of the Southeastern Alaska Area. The board finds that personal use of red and blue king crab in the Juneau area is a historical use, that this use has grown in recent years concurrent with the growth of the king crab population in Section 11-A, and that there are both summer and winter components to the personal use fishery. The board also finds that the commercial use of red and blue king crab in Section 11-A is historical, economically important, and should be maintained.

(b) When managing red and blue king crab in Section 11-A, the board authorizes the department to conduct the personal use and commercial fisheries according to the following allocation plan:

(c) The board finds that the personal use red and blue king crab fishery should be conducted so that the summer and winter seasons last as long as possible within the allocation plan described in (b) of this section. To accomplish this objective the commissioner may close, by emergency order, a personal use red and blue king crab season and immediately reopen a personal use red and blue king crab season during which any of the following restrictions, selected at the discretion of the commissioner, are in effect: