Alaska Administrative Code
Title 5 - Fish and Game
Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery
Chapter 52 - Upper Copper River and Upper Susitna River Area
5 AAC 52.022 - General provisions for seasons, bag, possession, and size limits, and methods and means for the Upper Copper River and Upper Susitna River Area
Universal Citation: 5 AK Admin Code 5 AAC 52.022
Current through August 30, 2024
(a) Unless otherwise specified in 5 AAC 52.023, or by an emergency order issued under AS 16.05.060, the following are the seasons, bag, possession, annual, and size limits, and method and means that apply to sport fishing for finfish in the Upper Copper River and Upper Susitna River Area:
(1) in all flowing waters of the Upper
Copper River drainage and Tyone River drainage, only unbaited, single-hook,
artificial lures may be used;
(2)
in all lakes, except Crosswind Lake, Lake Louise, Paxson Lake, Summit Lake,
Susitna Lake, and Tyone Lake, bait and artificial lures may be used; in
Crosswind Lake, Lake Louise, Paxson Lake, Summit Lake, Susitna Lake, and Tyone
Lake, a hook and bait may be used only as follows:
(A) from April 16 - October 31, only
unbaited, single-hook, artificial lures may be used;
(B) from November 1 - April 15, only
single-hooks may be used; bait may be used;
(3) king salmon: may be taken only from
January 1 - July 19, as follows;
(A) 20
inches or greater in length; bag and possession limit of one fish; annual limit
of four fish; a harvest record is required as specified in
5
AAC 75.006;
(B) less than 20 inches in length; bag and
possession limit of 10 fish;
(C) in
all waters, a king salmon that is removed from the water must be retained and
becomes part of the bag limit of the person that originally hooked the fish; a
person may not remove a king salmon from the water before releasing the
fish;
(4) salmon, other
than king salmon: may be taken from January 1 - December 31, as follows;
(A) greater than 16 inches in length; bag and
possession limit of three fish, except that the daily bag limit for sockeye
salmon greater than 16 inches in length is three fish and the possession limit
is six fish;
(B) 16 inches or less
in length; bag and possession limit of 10 fish;
(C) in all waters, a salmon, including a king
salmon as specified in (3)(C) of this subsection, that is removed from the
water must be retained and becomes part of the bag limit of the person that
originally hooked the fish; a person may not remove a salmon from the water
before releasing the fish;
(5) rainbow/steelhead trout: may be taken
from January 1 - December 31; bag and possession limit of two fish, of which
only one may be 20 inches or greater in length;
(6) burbot: may be taken from January 1 -
December 31; bag and possession limit of five fish; no size limit;
(7) Arctic grayling: may be taken from
January 1 - December 31; bag and possession limit of five fish; no size
limit;
(8) Dolly Varden/Arctic
char: may be taken from January 1 - December 31; bag and possession limit of 10
fish; no size limit;
(9) lake
trout: may be taken from January 1 - December 31; bag and possession limit of
two fish; no size limit;
(10) other
finfish not specified in (3) - (9) of this subsection: may be taken from
January 1 - December 31; no bag, possession, or size limits;
(11) whitefish may be taken from October 1 -
March 31 by spear or bow and arrow;
(12) suckers may be taken from January 1 -
December 31 by spear or bow and arrow;
(13) repealed 7/28/2023;
(14) the use of set lines is
prohibited.
(b) For the purposes of this section, "bow" means a long bow, recurve bow, compound bow, or crossbow.
Authority:AS 16.05.060
AS 16.05.251
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