Alaska Administrative Code
Title 5 - Fish and Game
Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries
Chapter 40 - Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries
Article 2 - Special Harvest Areas
5 AAC 40.071 - District 9: Gunnuk Creek Special Harvest Area

(a) The Gunnuk Creek Special Harvest Area consists of the waters of Keku Strait enclosed by a line from a point about one-third mile northwest of Kake at 56º 58.95' N. lat., 133º 57.42' W. long. to the southernmost tip of the southern Mosquito Island to the northwest tip of Hamilton Island to Wooten's Dock at 56º 57.55' N. lat., 133º 54.70' W. long.

(b) A hatchery permit holder harvesting salmon within the special harvest area is exempt from the provisions of 5 AAC 33.310. The commissioner shall open and close, by emergency order, fishing periods for the hatchery permit holder to harvest salmon returning to the Gunnuk Creek salmon hatchery.

(c) The commissioner shall open and close, by emergency order, fishing periods for common property fisheries to harvest excess salmon returning to the Gunnuk Creek salmon hatchery.

(d) Notwithstanding 5 AAC 33.330, legal gear types for the hatchery permit holder in the special harvest area are beach seine, purse seine, gillnet, and troll gear.