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 9 - Registration Area J (Westward)
5 AAC 38.417 - Registration Area J Octopus Management Plan
Current through August 30, 2024
In Registration Area J, octopus may be taken during a directed fishery or as bycatch in a directed groundfish or shellfish fishery as follows:
(1) in a directed fishery, a person may take octopus only under the authority of a permit issued by the commissioner under 5 AAC 38.062; octopus taken under a commissioner's permit shall be recorded on a fish ticket with a CFEC permit card for octopus;
(2) when octopus are taken as bycatch, a commissioner's permit is not required; octopus taken as bycatch shall be recorded on the fish ticket for the directed fishery; octopus taken as bycatch may not exceed 20 percent, by weight, of the directed species on board a vessel, unless modified by emergency order.
Authority:AS 16.05.251
