Alaska Administrative Code
Title 5 - Fish and Game
Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery
Chapter 47 - Southeast Alaska Area
5 AAC 47.035 - Methods, means, and general provisions - Shellfish

(a) Unless otherwise provided in 5 AAC 47.021 or by emergency order issued under AS 16.05.060, the provisions in this section apply to shellfish sport fishing in the Southeast Alaska Area.

(b) Shellfish may be taken only as follows:

(c) No more than four pots, other than shrimp pots, or 10 ring nets per person, with a maximum of 10 pots or 20 ring nets per vessel, may be used in the taking of shellfish other than shrimp at any time, except that no more than four pots or 10 ring nets per vessel may be used to take Tanner crab. No more than five additional shrimp pots per person with a maximum of 10 additional shrimp pots per vessel may be used in the taking of shrimp at any time.

(d) Pot gear must include an escape mechanism in accordance with the following provisions:

(e) The pot limits for shellfish in this chapter are not in addition to those allowed under subsistence fishing regulations contained in 5 AAC 02, nor to those allowed under personal use fishing regulations contained in 5 AAC 77.

(f) A sport fisherman using pots to take shellfish shall plainly and legibly inscribe the fisherman's first initial, last name, and home address on a keg or buoy attached to each pot. A keg or buoy attached to a pot must also be inscribed with the name or the division of motor vehicles boat registration number, issued under 2 AAC 70, of the vessel used to operate the pot.

(g) Until a crab has been processed or prepared for human consumption, a person may not mutilate or otherwise disfigure it in any manner that would prevent the determination of whether it meets the minimum size limit.

(h) The bag and possession limits in this chapter are not in addition to those allowed under subsistence fishing regulations contained in 5 AAC 02, nor to those allowed under personal use fishing regulations contained in 5 AAC 77.

(i) Male Tanner crab less than the minimum legal size and female Tanner crab that have been taken must be immediately returned unharmed to the sea.

(j) A person may not utilize a live holding facility to accumulate or pool multiple bag limits.

(k) A pot used to take shrimp under this chapter must have

(l) Male Dungeness crab less than the minimum legal size and female Dungeness crab that have been taken must be immediately returned unharmed to the sea.

(m) Repealed 7/1/2006.