5 AAC 06.370. Registration and reregistration

(a) Before taking salmon in Bristol Bay, each commercial salmon set gillnet or drift gillnet CFEC permit holder shall register for a district described in 5 AAC 06.200. Each drift gillnet permit holder also shall register for the same district the drift gillnet vessel that the permit holder will be operating. Initial district registration is accomplished by completing a registration form provided by the department and returning the completed form to the department office in Dillingham or King Salmon. For the purposes of this section, a CFEC permit holder and a drift gillnet vessel may be registered in only one district at a time.

(b) Except when fishing as a crewmember, a CFEC salmon set gillnet or drift gillnet permit holder intending to fish in a district for which the permit holder is not registered shall register for the new district at least 48 hours before fishing in the new district. A drift gillnet permit holder also shall register the drift gillnet vessel for the new district. Reregistration is accomplished by the permit holder or the permit holder's authorized agent completing a form provided by the department and submitting the completed form, in person, to an authorized representative of the department. The 48-hour notification period starts when the reregistration form is signed by the authorized representative of the department. The set gillnet or drift gillnet permit holder, and the drift gillnet vessel, may not fish in the original district during the 48-hour notification period. The notification period may be reduced by commissioner's announcement. District reregistration is not required after 9:00 a.m. July 17, except in the Ugashik District, as specified in 5 AAC 06.366(d) (4), the Naknek-Kvichak District, as specified in 5 AAC 06.360(g) , and the Egegik District, as specified in 5 AAC 06.359(f) .

(c) After use of either drift gillnet or set gillnet gear, use of the other type of gear is not permitted until 48 hours, or a reduced period specified by commissioner's announcement, have elapsed following notification to the department of the type of gear intended to be used. After 9:00 a.m. July 17, changing to either drift gillnet or set gillnet gear may be done without notification to the department of the type of gear intended to be used.

(d) Notification of a change in gear types may be made with the local representative of the department, and may be accomplished in person or by radio or through a designated representative of the fisherman. However, the 48-hour notification period, or a reduced period specified by commissioner's announcement, does not begin before the time that notification is received and noted by the department.

(e) Repealed 5/14/98.

(f) Except in the Ugashik District, as specified in 5 AAC 06.366(d) (4), the Naknek-Kvichak District, as specified in 5 AAC 06.360(g) , and the Egegik District, as specified in 5 AAC 06.359(f) , the commissioner shall waive, by announcement, the 48-hour district transfer notification period required by this section when the midpoint of the escapement goal range for sockeye salmon has been achieved for that district.

(g) Repealed 1/29/72.

(h) From June 1 through September 30, an Area T CFEC salmon permit holder may use, to take salmon, only the vessel identified on the permit, unless the permit holder has registered, in person, at the department's King Salmon or Dillingham offices, to use another vessel. An Area T CFEC salmon permit holder on board an unregistered vessel is presumed to have been responsible for the salmon fishing operations of that vessel for that year.

(i) An agent representing a CFEC permit holder on matters of district registration and reregistration must be annually authorized to do so on a form provided by the department. The form must state that registration or re-registration accomplished by a CFEC permit holder's authorization agent does not waive the strict liability standard in 5 AAC 39.002 as it applies to the CFEC permit holder.

(j) A person who receives an emergency transfer (transferee) of a CFEC permit under 20 AAC 05.1740 may not register in a district other than the district in which the CFEC permit holder is registered when the emergency transfer occurs, unless the transferee has complied with the 48-hour district transfer notification period required by this section.

(k) Notwithstanding (b) of this section, a CFEC permit holder registered before 9:00 a.m. July 17 to fish in the

(1) Togiak District may not take salmon in the Nushagak, Naknek-Kvichak, Egegik, or Ugashik District from 9:00 a.m. June 1 to 9:00 a.m. July 24;

(2) Nushagak, Naknek-Kvichak, Egegik, or Ugashik District may not take salmon in the Togiak District from 9:00 a.m. June 1 to 9:00 a.m. July 24; the department may waive the requirements of this paragraph after 9:00 a.m. July 21 if the department projects that the Togiak River escapement will exceed 150,000 sockeye salmon before 9:00 a.m. July 24.

( l ) In the Nushagak District a CFEC salmon set gillnet permit holder intending to fish in a statistical area for which the permit holder is not registered, shall register for the new statistical area at least 48 hours before fishing in the new statistical area. A set gillnet permit holder shall also register the set gillnet for the new statistical area. Reregistration is accomplished by the permit holder, or the permit holder's authorized agent, completing a form provided by the department and submitting the completed form, in person, to an authorized representative of the department. The 48-hour notification period begins when the reregistration form is signed by the authorized representative of the department. The set gillnet permit holder may not fish in the original statistical area during the 48-hour notification period. The notification period may be reduced by commissioner's announcement. Reregistration is not required after 9:00 a.m. July 17. For the purpose of this section, statistical areas in the Nushagak District are defined as follows:

(1) Igushik Statistical Area: all waters of the Igushik Section, as described in 5 AAC 06.200(1) ;

(2) Snake River Statistical Area: all waters of the Snake River Section, as described in 5 AAC 06.200(2) ;

(3) Coffee Point Statistical Area: all waters of the Nushagak Section, as described in 5 AAC 06.200(3) , between an ADF&G regulatory marker at 58ø 58.63' N. lat., 158ø 33.62' W. long. (two miles below Bradford Point) and an ADF&G regulatory marker at 58ø 52.92' N. lat., 158ø 43.19' W. long. (four miles below Coffee Point);

(4) Ekuk Statistical Area: all waters of the Nushagak Section, as described in 5 AAC 06.200(3) , between an ADF&G regulatory marker at 58ø 49.15' N. lat., 158ø 33.30' W. long. (Ekuk) to an ADF&G regulatory marker at 58ø 39.42' N. lat., 158ø 19.29' W. long. (Etolin Point);

(5) Clark's Point Statistical Area: all waters of the Nushagak Section, as described in 5 AAC 06.200(3) , between an ADF&G regulatory marker at 58ø 50.71' N. lat., 158ø 32.49' W. long. (Clark's Point) to an ADF&G regulatory marker at 58ø 49.15' N. lat., 158ø 33.30' W. long. (Ekuk);

(6) Queen's Statistical Area: all waters of the Nushagak Section, as described in 5 AAC 06.200(3) , enclosed by a line from an ADF&G regulatory marker at 58ø 51.27' N. lat., 158ø 30.34' W. long. to an ADF&G regulatory marker at 58ø 51.41' N. lat., 158ø 30.38' W. long. (outlet of Queen's Slough);

(7) Nushagak Statistical Area: all waters of the Nushagak Section, as described in 5 AAC 06.200(3) , between an ADF&G regulatory marker at 58ø 56.79' N. lat., 158ø 29.53' W. long (Nushagak Point) to an ADF&G regulatory marker at 58ø 50.71' N. lat., 158ø 32.49' W. long. (Clark's Point), except those waters described in (6) of this subsection.

History: In effect before 1983; am 4/16/83, Register 86; am 5/11/85, Register 94; am 4/18/86, Register 98; am 7/12/86, Register 99; am 4/2/88, Register 105; am 6/10/90, Register 114; am 6/19/92, Register 122; am 4/9/95, Register 134; am 5/24/96, Register 138; em am 5/30/97 - 9/26/97, Register 142; am 5/14/98, Register 146; am 6/23/99, Register 150; am 6/22/2001, Register 158; am 4/9/2004, Register 170

Authority: AS 16.05.251

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