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 2 - General Provisions
5 AAC 35.053 - Operation of other pot gear
Universal Citation: 5 AK Admin Code 35.053
Current through August 30, 2024
Unless otherwise specified in 5 AAC 31 - 5 AAC 38,
(a) in a Tanner crab registration area, or with respect to Registration Area J, in a district of Registration Area J,
(1) a person or vessel that operates
commercial, subsistence, sport, or personal use pots, during the 14 days
immediately before the opening of the commercial Tanner crab season may not
participate in the commercial Tanner crab fishery in the Tanner crab
registration area where the fishing with pots occurred, except that a person or
vessel is not disqualified from the commercial Tanner crab fishery by placing
the vessel's Tanner crab pots in storage, as specified in
5
AAC 35.052;
(2)
a person or vessel that participates in a commercial Tanner crab
fishery may not operate commercial, subsistence, sport, or personal use pots in
that registration area during the 14 days after the close of the commercial
Tanner crab season, except a vessel or person may operate other commercial pots
in that registration area after
(A) placing
the vessel's Tanner crab pots in storage, as specified in
5
AAC 35.052: and
(B) the vessel owner, or the owner's agent,
contacts a representative of the department, in person, and requests that the
Tanner crab registration be invalidated; unless the registration is already
invalidated under
5
AAC 35.020(k).
(b) during a commercial Tanner crab fishery,
a person or vessel validly registered for that fishery may not operate
commercial, subsistence, sport, or personal use pots other than commercial
Tanner crab pots, except that a person or vessel may stop participating in the
commercial Tanner crab fishery and instead operate commercial pots other than
Tanner crab pots if
(1) the vessel's Tanner
crab pots are put in storage as specified in
5
AAC 35.052; and
(2) the vessel owner, or the owner's agent,
contacts a representative of the department, in person, and requests that the
Tanner crab registration be invalidated.
Authority:AS 16.05.251
AS 16.05.258
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