5 AAC 33.332. Seine specifications and operation

(a) No purse seine may be less than 150 meshes or more than 450 meshes in depth, or less than 150 fathoms or more than 250 fathoms in length, hung measure.

(b) Seine mesh may not be more than four and one-half inches, except the first 25 meshes above the lead line may not be more than seven inches.

(d) Repealed 4/26/70.

(e) A seine lead may not be permanently attached to a seine and may be operated only on the bunt end of a seine.

(f) The mesh size of a seine lead may not be less than seven inches nor more than seven and one-half inches.

(g) A purse seine is considered to have ceased fishing when the bunt end of the seine is attached to the purse seine vessel and the tow end of the seine is attached to the vessel or moving through the power block.

(h) During concurrent seine and drift gillnet periods in Sections 1-B and 1-F, seine nets may not be in the water in Section 1-B.

History: In effect before 1988; am 6/25/89, Register 110; am 4/30/91, Register 118

Authority: AS 16.05.251

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