Alaska Administrative Code
Title 5 - Fish and Game
Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery
Chapter 77 - Personal Use Fishery
Article 1 - Statewide Provisions
5 AAC 77.010 - Methods, means, and general restrictions

(a) Finfish, shellfish, and aquatic plants may be taken for personal use only by a holder of a valid resident Alaska sport fishing license or by an Alaskan resident exempt from licensing under AS 16.05.400.

(b) It is unlawful to buy, sell, trade or barter fish or their parts taken under the regulations in 5 AAC 77.

(c) It is unlawful to take fish within 300 feet of any dam, fish ladder, weir, culvert or other artificial obstruction.

(d) Each personal use fisherman shall plainly and legibly inscribe the fisherman's first initial, last name, and home address on a keg or buoy attached to a gillnet, pot, or ring net. A keg or buoy attached to a pot or ring net 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 or ring net.

(e) The gillnet web in a gillnet used for personal use fishing for salmon must contain

(f) A person may not possess salmon taken under the authority of a personal use salmon fishing permit unless both tips of the tail fin have been removed from the salmon before the salmon is concealed from plain view or transported from the fishing site.

(g) It is unlawful to take female king, Tanner, or Dungeness crab.

(h) No person may mutilate or otherwise disfigure a crab in any manner that would prevent determination of the minimum size restrictions in 5 AAC 77, until the crab has been processed or prepared for consumption.

(i) No more than five pots, regardless of type, per person with a maximum of 10 pots, regardless of type, per vessel may be used to take shellfish at any time, except that in the Southeastern Alaska and Yakutat Areas, no more than 10 shrimp pots per person with a maximum of 20 shrimp pots per vessel may be used in addition to pots, other than shrimp pots, in the taking of shrimp at any time.

(j) The harvest, bag possession, and pot limits for shellfish in this chapter are not in addition to those allowed under subsistence fishing regulations contained in 5 AAC 02.

(k) Unless otherwise specified in this chapter, gear used in the personal use taking of shellfish is limited to the following:

(l) In the personal use taking of miscellaneous shellfish, except for clams, scallops, abalone, and sea cucumbers,

(m) Pots used for personal use fishing must comply with the escape mechanism requirements in 5 AAC 39.145.

(n) The use of footgear with absorbent felt or other fiber material on the soles is prohibited while personal use fishing in freshwater.