Alaska Administrative Code
Title 5 - Fish and Game
Part 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon Hatcheries
Chapter 41 - Collection, Transportation, Possession, Propagation, or Release of Aquatic Organisms; Aquatic Farming
Article 3 - General Provisions
5 AAC 41.075 - Classification of banned invasive species

Universal Citation: 5 AK Admin Code 41.075

Current through August 30, 2024

(a) In consultation with the department, the board will classify certain normative species as banned invasive species under this section.

(b) When considering proposals to classify a certain normative species as a banned invasive species, or removing a species from the list of banned invasive species specified in (c) of this section, the board will consider and determine the potential of the species to

(1) survive, grow, reproduce, and establish reproductive populations in this state;

(2) cause a genetic alteration of a species indigenous to this state;

(3) compete for food, habitat, and resources with a species indigenous to this state;

(4) degrade or make uninhabitable habitats used by species indigenous to this state;

(5) transmit a disease to a species indigenous to this state or to humans;

(6) threaten the health or population of a species indigenous to this state or to humans;

(7) cause economic or environmental harm.

(1) Class A banned invasive species:

Common Name	Scientific Name
Amphibians
Pacific chorus frog	Pseudacris regilla or Hyla regilla
Red-legged frog	Rana aurora
Crustaceans
Rusty crayfish	Orconectes rusticus
European green crab	Carcinus maenas
Virile crayfish/Northern crayfish	Faxonius virilis
Fish
Yellow perch	Perca flavescens
Cyprinid fishes	Cyprinidae Family (includes invasive carps, redside shiners, solden shiners, and fathead minnows)
American shad	Alosa sapidissima
Eastern Mosauitofish	Gambusia holbrooki
Round goby	Apollonia melanostromus
Mollusks
New Zealand mudsnail	Potamopyrgus antipodarum
Dreissenid mussels	Dreissenidae Family
Quagga mussel	Dreissenia bugensis
Zebra mussel	Dreissenia polymorpha
Conrad's or dark false mussel	Mytilopsis leucophaeta
Asian clam	Corbicula fluminea

(2) Class B banned invasive species;

Common Name	Scientific Name
Amphibians
American bull fros	Lithobates catesbeianus
Crustaceans
Signal crayfish	Pacifastacus leniusculus
Red swamp crayfish	Procambarus clarkii
European green crab	Carcinus maenas
Fish
Yellow perch	Perca flavescens
Muskellunse	Esox masauinonsv
Walleye	Sander vitreus
Blue2ill	Lepomis macrocbirus
Larsemouth bass	Micropterus salmoides
Smallmouth bass	Micropterus dolontieu
Black crappie	Pomoxis nisromaculatus
White crappie	Pomoxis annularis
Ictalurid fishes	Ictaluridae Familv (catfish)
Brook trout	Salvelinus fontinalis
Brown trout	Salmo trutta
White Perch	Morone americana
Pumpkinseed	Lepomis sihbosus

(d) A person may not possess any part of a Class A banned invasive species, including reproductive or genetic material, at any stage of its life cycle, except as follows:

(1) when transporting a specimen to any department office or another location as directed by the department In a sealed container for the purpose of containing, Identifying, or reporting the presence of the species; or

(2) under the provisions of an aquatic resource permit as described in 5 AAC 41.005.

(e) A person may not possess any live Class B banned invasive species at any stage of its life cycle.

Authority:AS 16.05.050

AS 16.05.251

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