5 AAC 29.145. Permit, reporting, and landing requirements for salmon troll catcher-processor vessels

(a) Notwithstanding the provisions in 5 AAC 39.130, the owner or operator of a catcher-processor vessel shall submit a separate fish ticket for each week that the vessel fished. A fish ticket must document the estimated number and pounds of salmon caught during that week. Fish tickets must be submitted to the department within seven days after the fish are offloaded from the vessel. Fish tickets for fish frozen at sea must be marked "frozen at sea" or "FAS".

(b) The commissioner may require the owner or operator of a catcher-processor vessel to contact the department during an open fishing period to provide catch information needed for inseason management of the fishery. The information required may include the permit holder's name, the vessel's ADF&G number, the districts and subdistricts fished, and the number of salmon, by species, landed on board the vessel.

(c) Notwithstanding 5 AAC 29.140(a) and (b), the owner or operator of a catcher-processor vessel may remove the heads from adipose fin-clipped salmon under a permit issued by the department.

(d) For the purposes of this section,

(1) "catcher-processor vessel" means a salmon troll vessel on which the permit holder catches and sells processed fish or fish products off that vessel;

(2) "week" means a seven-day period beginning on Sunday 12:01 a.m. and running until Saturday at 11:59 p.m.

History: Eff. 7/26/2003, Register 167

Authority: AS 16.05.251

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