Alaska Administrative Code

Steelhead taken incidental to commercial salmon fishing in Karluk Lagoon must be returned to the water unharmed. Notes 5 AAC 18.394 In effect before 1988 Authority:AS 16.05.251(a) State regulations are updated quarterly; we currently have two versions available. Below is a compar…

(a) In the Inner Karluk, Outer Karluk, Inner Ayakulik, and Outer Ayakulik Sections, if the department determines that the king salmon runs will not meet seasonal escapement goals, the commissioner may, by emergency order, close the commercial salmon fishery and immediately reopen…

Notes 5 AAC 18.510 In effect before 1988; repealed 7/21/99, Register 151 State regulations are updated quarterly; we currently have two versions available. Below is a comparison between our most recent version and the prior quarterly release. More comparison features will be adde…

Notes 5 AAC 18.700 Repealed 10/12/74. State regulations are updated quarterly; we currently have two versions available. Below is a comparison between our most recent version and the prior quarterly release. More comparison features will be added as we have more versions to compa…

Notes 5 AAC 18.705 Repealed 6/15/74. State regulations are updated quarterly; we currently have two versions available. Below is a comparison between our most recent version and the prior quarterly release. More comparison features will be added as we have more versions to compar…

Notes 5 AAC 18.710 Repealed 10/12/74. State regulations are updated quarterly; we currently have two versions available. Below is a comparison between our most recent version and the prior quarterly release. More comparison features will be added as we have more versions to compa…

Notes 5 AAC 18.720 Repealed 10/12/74. State regulations are updated quarterly; we currently have two versions available. Below is a comparison between our most recent version and the prior quarterly release. More comparison features will be added as we have more versions to compa…

Notes 5 AAC 18.730 Repealed 6/15/74. State regulations are updated quarterly; we currently have two versions available. Below is a comparison between our most recent version and the prior quarterly release. More comparison features will be added as we have more versions to compar…

Notes 5 AAC 18.734 Repealed 6/15/74. State regulations are updated quarterly; we currently have two versions available. Below is a comparison between our most recent version and the prior quarterly release. More comparison features will be added as we have more versions to compar…

Notes 5 AAC 18.741 Repealed 6/15/74. State regulations are updated quarterly; we currently have two versions available. Below is a comparison between our most recent version and the prior quarterly release. More comparison features will be added as we have more versions to compar…

Notes 5 AAC 18.750 Repealed 10/12/74. State regulations are updated quarterly; we currently have two versions available. Below is a comparison between our most recent version and the prior quarterly release. More comparison features will be added as we have more versions to compa…

Notes 5 AAC 18.760 Repealed 10/12/74. State regulations are updated quarterly; we currently have two versions available. Below is a comparison between our most recent version and the prior quarterly release. More comparison features will be added as we have more versions to compa…

Notes 5 AAC 18.792 Repealed 10/12/74. State regulations are updated quarterly; we currently have two versions available. Below is a comparison between our most recent version and the prior quarterly release. More comparison features will be added as we have more versions to compa…

Requirements set out in this chapter apply to commercial fishing only, unless otherwise specified. Subsistence, personal use, and sport fishing regulations affecting commercial fishing vessels or affecting any other commercial fishing activity are set out in the subsistence fishi…

The Cook Inlet Area includes all waters of Alaska enclosed by a line extending east from Cape Douglas (58º 51.10' N. lat.), and a line extending south from Cape Fairfield (148º 50.25' W. long.). Notes 5 AAC 21.100 In effect before 1986; am 4/18/86, Register 98; am 5/31/96, Regist…

(a) Northern District: north of a line extending from Boulder Point at 60° 46.39' N. lat., to Shell Platform C, then to a point on the west shore at 60° 46.39' N. lat. (1) Eastern Subdistrict: all waters south of the latitude of Point Possession, north of the latitude of Boulder …

The seaward boundary of the Kamishak Bay District is three nautical miles seaward from the shoreline between a point on the west shore of Cook Inlet at approximately 59° 46.15' N. lat., 153° 00.70' W. long., and Cape Douglas at approximately 58° 51.10' N. lat., 153° 15.07' W. lon…

(a) If an opening date specified in this section for a fishing season in any district, subdistrict, or section falls on a date during a closed weekly fishing period under 5 AAC 21.320, the fishing season will open the first day of the next open weekly period. (b) Salmon may be ta…

(a) In the set gillnet fishery, (1) salmon may be taken in the Northern District from 7:00 a.m. Monday until 7:00 p.m. Monday and from 7:00 a.m. Thursday until 7:00 p.m. Thursday; (2) salmon may be taken in the Central District from 7:00 a.m. Monday until 7:00 p.m. Monday and fro…

(a) Purse seines, hand purse seines, and beach seines may be used in the Southern, Kamishak Bay, Outer, and Eastern Districts, and in the Chinitna Bay Subdistrict east of a line from the crane on the south shore to the largest boulder on the landward end of Glacier Spit. (b) Set …

(a) No person may operate a set gillnet that has not been intentionally set, staked, anchored or otherwise fixed, and no person may operate a drift gillnet that has been intentionally set, staked, anchored or otherwise fixed. (b) The maximum mesh size for gillnets is six inches. …

(a) Purse seines, hand purse seines, and beach seines may not be less than 90 fathoms in length and 100 meshes in depth, nor more than 250 fathoms in length and 335 meshes in depth. Detachable or loose leads are not permitted. (b) A seine vessel may tow another seine vessel as lo…

(a) Except as specified in (e)- (g) of this section, two Cook Inlet drift gillnet CFEC permit holders may concurrently fish from the same vessel and jointly operate up to 200 fathoms of drift gillnet gear, and a person holding two Cook Inlet drift gillnet CFEC permits may operate…

(a) Each drift gillnet in operation must have a bright red keg or buoy at one end plainly and legibly marked with the permanent vessel license plate (ADF&G) number of the vessel operating the gear and the initials of the operator. (b) Markers described in 5 AAC 39.280(a) are not …

(a) No part of a commercial drift gillnet or set gillnet may be set or operated within 600 feet of any part of another commercial set gillnet. (b) Repealed 7/21/91. (c) In the Chinitna Bay Subdistrict, no part of a purse seine may be placed or operated within 600 feet of a drift …

Notes 5 AAC 21.336 Repealed 4/13/80. State regulations are updated quarterly; we currently have two versions available. Below is a comparison between our most recent version and the prior quarterly release. More comparison features will be added as we have more versions to compar…

Notes 5 AAC 21.342 Repealed 4/18/86. State regulations are updated quarterly; we currently have two versions available. Below is a comparison between our most recent version and the prior quarterly release. More comparison features will be added as we have more versions to compar…

(a) A CFEC set gillnet permit holder shall register for a registration area described in (b) of this section before fishing, by completing a registration form available from the department and returning the form in person to the department office in Anchorage, Soldotna, or Homer,…

(a) Salmon may not be taken in any of the waters listed in this section. (b) Central District (1) within one statute mile of the terminus of the following salmon streams: (A) Deep Creek; (B) Stariski Creek; (C) Anchor River, (2) Crescent River: east of a line from an ADF&G regula…

(a) The purpose of this management plan is to ensure adequate escapement and a harvestable surplus of salmon into the Northern District drainages and to provide management guidelines to the department. The department shall manage the commercial drift gillnet fishery to minimize t…

(a) The purpose of this management plan is to allow for the harvest of surplus pink salmon in the Upper Subdistrict for set gillnet and drift gillnet gear. Notwithstanding 5 AAC 21.310(b) (2)(C)(iii), from August 11 through August 15, the commissioner may, by emergency order, ope…

A commercial salmon fisherman shall, at the time of landing, report on an ADF&G fish ticket the number of salmon, by species, taken but not sold. Notes 5 AAC 21.355 Eff. 6/10/89, Register 110; am 6/13/99, Register 150 Authority:AS 16.05.251 State regulations are updated quarterly…

Notes 5 AAC 21.356 Eff. 6/22/2002, Register 162; am 6/11/2005, Register 174; repealed 6/4/2008, Register 186 State regulations are updated quarterly; we currently have two versions available. Below is a comparison between our most recent version and the prior quarterly release. M…

Notes 5 AAC 21.357 Eff. 6/21/97, Register 142; am 6/13/99, Register 150; am 5/18/2000, Register 154; am 6/22/2002, Register 162; em am 9/28/2004 - 1/25/2005, Register 172; am 2/10/2005, Register 173; repealed 6/11/2005, Register 174 As of Register 174, July 2005, the substance of…

(a) The purposes of this management plan are to minimize the harvest of coho salmon bound for the Northern District of upper Cook Inlet and to provide the department direction for management of salmon stocks. The department shall manage the chum, pink, and sockeye salmon stocks f…

(a) The purposes of this management plan are to ensure an adequate escapement of late-run king salmon into the Kenai River system and to provide management guidelines to the department. The department shall manage the late-run Kenai River king salmon stocks primarily for sport an…

(a) The department shall manage the Kenai River late-run sockeye salmon stocks primarily for commercial uses based on abundance. The department shall also manage the commercial fisheries to minimize the harvest of Northern District coho, late-run Kenai River king, and Kenai River…

Notes 5 AAC 21.361 In effect before 1988; em am 4/30/91 - 5/30/91, Register 118 [not printed]; am 7/21/91, Register 119; am 5/31/96, Register 138; am 6/13/99, Register 150; am 6/22/2002, Register 162; repealed 6/11/2005, Register 174 As of Register 174, July 2005, the substance o…

Notes 5 AAC 21.362 Repealed 5/3/84. State regulations are updated quarterly; we currently have two versions available. Below is a comparison between our most recent version and the prior quarterly release. More comparison features will be added as we have more versions to compare…

(a) The department should receive long-term direction in management of upper Cook Inlet salmon stocks and salmon species. Divisions within the department must receive long-term direction in order to accomplish their missions and plan management, research, administrative, and othe…

Notes 5 AAC 21.364 Eff. 5/11/85, Register 94; em am 4/30/91 - 5/30/91, Register 118 [not printed]; am 7/21/91, Register 119; am 6/13/99, Register 150; repealed 6/22/2002, Register 162 State regulations are updated quarterly; we currently have two versions available. Below is a co…

(a) This management plan governs the harvest of Kasilof River salmon excess to spawning escapement needs. It is the intent of the Board of Fisheries that Kasilof River salmon be harvested in the fisheries that have historically harvested them, including the methods, means, times,…

(a) The purpose of this management plan is to ensure an adequate escapement of king salmon into the Northern District drainages and to provide management guidelines to the department. The department shall manage the Northern District king salmon stocks primarily for sport and gui…

Notes 5 AAC 21.367 Repealed 6/10/89. State regulations are updated quarterly; we currently have two versions available. Below is a comparison between our most recent version and the prior quarterly release. More comparison features will be added as we have more versions to compar…

(a) The purpose of this management plan is to authorize a harvest of Big River sockeye salmon by set gillnets in a portion of the Kustatan and Kalgin Island Subdistricts. (b) Salmon may be taken in waters of the Kustatan Subdistrict west of 151° 52.30' W. long., approximately one…

When the Board of Fisheries authorized the use of power purse seines in the Cook Inlet salmon fishery, the board was concerned that the more efficient gear might allow the fleet to increase its harvest of Upper Cook Inlet salmon stocks. The department shall manage the seine fleet…

The department may not base fishing time in the Kalgin Island Subdistrict on the enhanced run strength of Packers Creek sockeye salmon. For the purpose of harvesting Packers Creek sockeye salmon, extra fishing time in the Kalgin Island Subdistrict shall be limited to no more than…

(a) The department, in consultation with the hatchery operator, shall manage the Tutka Bay Subdistrict and the Paint River Subdistrict to provide for Common property fisheries and to achieve the hatchery broadstock and cost recovery goals set by the hatchery operator and approved…

(a) The department, in consultation with the hatchery operator, shall manage the Resurrection Bay North Subdistrict, China Poot Subdistrict, Tutka Bay Subdistrict, and the Kirschner Lake Section of the Bruin Bay Subdistrict to provide for a common property fishery and to achieve …

Notes 5 AAC 21.375 Eff. 6/10/89, Register 110; am 2/13/2005, Register 173; repealed 8/23/2009, Register 191 State regulations are updated quarterly; we currently have two versions available. Below is a comparison between our most recent version and the prior quarterly release. Mo…