5 AAC 09.330. Gear

(a) In the Northern District salmon may be taken in the

(1) Cinder River Section: with drift gillnets or set gillnets only;

(2) Inner Port Heiden Section: with drift gillnets or set gillnets only;

(3) Ilnik Section: with drift gillnets or set gillnets only;

(4) Three Hills Section: with drift gillnets only;

(5) Bear River Section: with drift gillnets, purse seines and hand purse seines;

(6) Port Moller Bight Section: with drift gillnets, set gillnets, purse seines, and hand purse seines;

(7) Herendeen-Moller Bay Section: with drift gillnets, set gillnets, purse seines and hand purse seines;

(8) Nelson Lagoon Section: with drift gillnets or set gillnets;

(9) Black Hills Section: with drift gillnets or set gillnets only.

(b) In the Northwestern District salmon may be taken with drift gillnets, set gillnets, purse seines and hand purse seines.

(c) In the Unimak District salmon may be taken with drift gillnets, set gillnets, purse seines and hand purse seines. Salmon may be taken by gillnet gear during periods when the seine fishery is closed by emergency order due to the presence of immature salmon.

(d) In the Southwestern District salmon may be taken with purse seines, hand purse seines and set gillnets except that

(1) salmon may also be taken with drift gillnets west of a line from Kenmore Head to Hague Rocks to the easternmost tip of the Sanak Islands;

(2) repealed 3/19/78;

(3) salmon may be taken by gillnet gear during periods when the seine fishery is closed by emergency order due to the presence of immature salmon.

(e) In the South Central District salmon may be taken with set gillnets, purse seines and hand purse seines, except that

(1) repealed 3/19/78;

(2) within Canoe Bay, salmon may be taken only with purse seines and hand purse seines;

(3) repealed 6/2/88;

(4) salmon may be taken by set gillnet gear during periods when the seine fishery is closed by emergency order due to the presence of immature salmon.

(f) In the Southeastern District, salmon may be taken only with set gillnets, purse seines, and hand purse seines, except that

(1) salmon may be taken only with purse seines and hand purse seines in the area between Popof Head and Dark Cliffs (Popof Island) from June 1 through August 31; however, salmon may be taken by set gillnet during periods when the seine fishery is closed by emergency order due to the presence of immature salmon;

(2) repealed 3/19/78;

(3) salmon may be taken only with set gillnets from June 1 through July 10 in the Beaver Bay, Balboa Bay, Southwest Stepovak, Northwest Stepovak, Stepovak Flats, and East Stepovak Sections; however, if the department determines that the Orzinski Lake sockeye salmon escapement objectives have been exceeded as described in 5 AAC 09.360(k) , beginning July 1, in addition to set gillnet gear, the commissioner may open, by emergency order, the waters of Orzinski Bay west of 160УИ 04.25' W. long. to fishing with purse seine and hand purse seine gear;

(4) salmon may be taken by set gillnet during periods when the seine fishery is closed by emergency order due to presence of immature salmon.

History: In effect before 1988; am 6/2/88, Register 106; am 6/9/90, Register 114; am 5/28/92, Register 122; am 10/11/95, Register 136; am 6/11/2005, Register 174

Authority: AS 16.05.060

AS 16.05.251

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