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Title 5 . Fish and Game
Chapter 28 . Transportation, Possession and Release of Live Fish; Aquatic Farming
Section 629. Lawful gear for Bering Sea-Aleutian Islands Area

5 AAC 28.629. Lawful gear for Bering Sea-Aleutian Islands Area

(a) Unless otherwise specified in this section, groundfish may be taken with the gear specified in 5 AAC 28.050.

(b) Rockfish may not be taken with seine gear.

(c) Only five mechanical jigging machines may be operated from a vessel.

(d) In the Sitkin Sound waters described in 5 AAC 28.690(a) ,

(1) Pacific cod may be taken only with trawl, pot, longline, mechanical jigging machine, and hand troll gear; and

(2) rockfish may be taken only with pot, longline, mechanical jigging machine, and hand troll gear.

(e) From May 1 through September 15, Pacific cod may be taken only with pots, longline, mechanical jigging machine, and hand troll gear in the area described in 5 AAC 28.690(b) .

(f) Notwithstanding (d) of this section, in the Bering Sea-Aleutian Islands Area, blue and black rockfish may be taken in a directed fishery only with mechanical jigging machines and handlines.

(g) Sablefish may be taken only with pots, longlines, mechanical jigging machines and hand troll gear as described in 5 AAC 28.640.

History: Eff. 4/4/97, Register 142; am 7/5/2000, Register 155; am 5/19/2001, Register 158; am 5/31/2001, Register 158; am 1/16/2005, Register 173; am 2/13/2005, Register 173

Authority: AS 16.05.251

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