Alaska Administrative Code
Title 5 - Fish and Game
Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery
Chapter 74 - Tanana River Area
5 AAC 74.040 - Tanana River Area Wild Lake Trout Management Plan
Current through August 30, 2024
(a) Notwithstanding the other provisions in this chapter regarding lake trout, the department shall manage wild lake trout populations in the Tanana River Area by employing a conservative harvest regime and by maintaining harvest below the maximum sustained yield level. Following sustained yield principles, the department may manage wild lake trout fisheries to provide or maintain fishery qualities that are desired by sport anglers.
(b) In a sport fishery covered by this management plan, the commissioner, by emergency order, may take one or more of the management actions specified in this subsection if there is a conservation or biological concern for the sustainability of the fishery or for a stock harvested by that fishery. The concern must arise from harvest, effort, or catch data for that fishery which has been derived from statewide harvest survey data, on-site creel survey data, stock status data, stock exploitation rates, or from inferential comparisons with other fisheries. The management actions are as follows:
(c) If the harvest level in the Tanana River Area exceeds sustained yield for a two-year time period, the commissioner, by emergency order, may close the fishery and immediately reopen a fishery during which one or more of the following restrictions apply:
(d) Special management waters are waters designated by regulation of the Board of Fisheries, where harvests are within sustained yield levels and where the management objectives include higher stock abundance or a need for a higher percentage of trophy-sized fish. Within special management areas, if the department determines that management objectives will not be met under existing regulatory provisions, the commissioner may, by emergency order, close the fishery and immediately reopen a fishery during which one or more of the following management measures apply:
(e) The department shall minimize potential conflicts with a subsistence fishery, or other fisheries that overlap the sport fishery, that harvest other fish within the same body of water.
Authority:AS 16.05.060
AS 16.05.251