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 38.147 - Dive gear restrictions for Registration Area A
Current through August 30, 2024
(a) Notwithstanding 5 AAC 38.054, a person may use dive gear to fish commercially for other shellfish and miscellaneous shellfish during the 14 days immediately before the scheduled opening date of a commercial red sea urchin fishery except that a person who participates in that fishery may not during that period use dive gear for subsistence, personal use, or sport dive fishing.
(b) Notwithstanding 5 AAC 38.054, a person who uses dive gear to fish in a commercial red sea urchin fishery may fish in other commercial shellfish and miscellaneous shellfish dive fisheries within the 14-day period specified in 5 AAC 38.054.
(c) In Registration Area A, a person who or vessel that operates dive gear during any time period specified in 5 AAC 38.054(a), except as provided in 5 AAC 38.054(b), may not participate in any commercial, sport, personal use, or subsistence dive fishery for 28 days following the use of dive gear.
At its January 21 - 31, 1997 meeting, and in accordance with 5 AAC 39.210, the Board of Fisheries approved the commissioner of fish and game's adoption of 5 AAC 38.147, which took effect 12/8/96.
Authority:AS 16.05.251
