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Title 5 . Fish and Game
Chapter 28 . Transportation, Possession and Release of Live Fish; Aquatic Farming
Section 365. Cook Inlet Rockfish Management Plan

5 AAC 28.365. Cook Inlet Rockfish Management Plan

(a) A vessel fishing in the Cook Inlet District may not land or have on board more than a combined total of 1,000 pounds (round weight) of all rockfish species within five consecutive days.

(b) A vessel fishing in the North Gulf District may not land or have on board more than 4,000 pounds (round weight) of all rockfish species within five consecutive days.

(c) If the commissioner determines a closure is necessary to ensure that the guideline harvest level for rockfish is not exceeded, the commissioner shall close, by emergency order, the directed fishery for rockfish and other groundfish species in the Cook Inlet Area and immediately reopen a season during which a bycatch limit of rockfish not to exceed 20 percent of the gross round weight of all delivered groundfish species and halibut will be established.

(d) The guideline harvest level for the Cook Inlet Area is 150,000 pounds (round weight) for all rockfish species combined.

(e) An operator of a vessel participating in the Cook Inlet directed rockfish fishery shall obtain and complete a rockfish logbook provided by the department. The vessel operator must have the logbook on board the vessel at all times the vessel is participating in the Cook Inlet directed rockfish fishery.

History: Eff. 4/7/93, Register 126; am 6/15/95, Register 134; am 4/4/97, Register 142; am 3/11/2001, Register 157; am 4/9/2005, Register 174

Authority: AS 16.05.060

AS 16.05.251


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