Alaska Administrative Code
Title 5 - Fish and Game
Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries
Chapter 38 - Miscellaneous Shellfish Fishery
Article 5 - Registration Area A (Southeastern Alaska)
5 AAC 38.133 - Abalone fishing permits for Registration Area A

(a) Abalone fishing may be conducted only under authority of a permit issued by the commissioner. The permit may specify reporting requirements and additional harvest restrictions.

(b) Before engaging in the subsistence abalone fishery, a commercial abalone fisherman shall return the commercial permit to the department and land the commercial catch in possession. A person that returns a permit to the department during the open commercial abalone fishing season may not obtain another permit until 30 days after the closure of the commercial abalone fishing season.