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 8 - General Provisions
5 AAC 40.840 - Annual management plans

(a) Beginning with the first year of operation of the hatchery, and on an annual basis after that, the department will prepare, in conjunction with the permit holder, an annual management plan to guide and condition hatchery operations.

(b) An annual Mangement plan must organize and guide the hatchery's operations regarding producation, goals broodstock management, and harvest mangement of hatchery returns. The plan must be developed with consideration of the hatchery's production cycle. The production cycle begins with adult returns, that lead to egg take and end with fish relases. Action may be taken outside of the management plan if allowed under the hatchery permit or modified by emergency order.

(c) The PNP coordinator shall organize the appropriate department staff and the permit holder in preparing a draft annual management plan. The appropriate regional planning team and the Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development may also review the plan. The operator shall submit a draft plan to the department not later than April 1 of each year.