Alaska Administrative Code
Title 5 - Fish and Game
Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries
Chapter 35 - Tanner Crab Fishery
Article 1 - Registration Areas
5 AAC 35.033 - Tenders for Tanner crab

(a) A vessel used to tender Tanner crab for a vessel validly registered to take Tanner crab may not have Tanner crab gear or equipment on board the tendering vessel and may not use that vessel to take Tanner crab.

(b) Before engaging in a tendering operation, the operator of a tendering vessel shall register that vessel with a local representative of the department within the Tanner crab registration area, district, or section in which the operator intends to operate that vessel.

(c) Before leaving a Tanner crab registration area, district, or section for which it is registered, the operator of a tendering vessel shall contact, in person or by radio or telephone, a local representative of the department in the registration area where the vessel is operating. At the time of the contact with the representative, the tendering vessel operator shall state the number of Tanner crab on board the vessel and the vessel's unloading destination.