Alaska Administrative Code
Title 5 - Fish and Game
Part 2 - Sport Fishing and Personal Use Fishery
Chapter 77 - Personal Use Fishery
Article 11 - Cook Inlet Area
5 AAC 77.509 - Lawful gear and gear specifications for shellfish

(a) Notwithstanding 5 AAC 77.010(i), and except as provided in 5 AAC 77.511, no more than two pots per person, regardless of type, with a maximum of two pots per vessel, regardless of type, may be used to take shellfish at any time.

(b) Each pot, other than shrimp pots, used to take shellfish in the Cook Inlet Area must have a minimum of two escape rings that are at least four and three-eighths inches in inside diameter.

(c) Repealed 8/27/2016.

(d) A pot used to take shellfish may not have any portion of the line attaching the pot to a buoy or buoys floating on the surface of the water at any time, except for that portion of the line connecting the main buoy to any auxiliary buoy or buoys.