Title 5 . Fish and Game

Chapter 35 . Transportation, Possession and Release of Live Fish; Aquatic Farming

Section 506. Area J registration

5 AAC 35.506. Area J registration

(a) Registration Area J is a nonexclusive registration area, except the Kodiak and Chignik Districts are superexclusive registration districts.

(b) Notwithstanding (c) and (g) of this section, a Tanner crab vessel validly registered for the Chignik District may be used to take Tanner crab in the Semidi Island Overlap Section, of the Kodiak District, as specified in 5 AAC 35.507.

(c) A Tanner crab vessel may not be registered to take Tanner crab in more than one district of Registration Area J at a time.

(d) A Tanner crab vessel from which pots having identification tags required by 5 AAC 35.526 are fished may not be, at the same time, validly registered to fish any other fishery with pot gear.

(e) For the Chignik, Eastern Aleutians, Western Aleutians, and Bering Sea Districts, the registration deadlines for the registration year are as follows:

(1) for the Bering Sea District C. opilio Tanner crab fishery, the registration deadline is 5:00 p.m. September 24;

(2) for the Bering Sea District, C. bairdi Tanner crab fishery, the registration deadline is 5:00 p.m. September 24;

(3) repealed 8/14/2005;

(4) for the Eastern Aleutian District C. bairdi Tanner crab fishery, the registration deadline is 5:00 p.m. December 24;

(5) for the Western Aleutian District C. bairdi Tanner crab fishery, the registration deadline is 5:00 p.m. October 10;

(6) for the Chignik District C. bairdi Tanner crab fishery, if the guideline harvest level exceeds 600,000 pounds, the registration deadline is 5:00 p.m. December 24.

(f) Before a vessel may be registered under this section, the vessel operator must first obtain a valid CFEC interim-use permit for Bering Sea Tanner crab that references the vessel's ADF&G license number. The registration form must identify the vessel operator's CFEC permit number and must be received in person, or by mail or facsimile, at the department office in Dutch Harbor or Kodiak by the deadline specified in this section.

(g) A vessel that is registered for the Tanner crab fishery in the Kodiak District may not be registered for the Tanner crab fishery in the Chignik or South Peninsula Districts during that registration year.

(h) The operator of a vessel registered to take Tanner crab in any district or section of Registration Area J must comply with any check-in and check-out procedures for sections specified by the department in an Area J registration certificate issued under 5 AAC 35.020.

(i) During the fishing season for C. bairdi Tanner crab, a vessel operator registered for only Bristol Bay red king crab fisheries conducted east of 168ΓΈ W. long. may not retain C. bairdi Tanner crab. A vessel operator registered to retain both Bristol Bay red king crab and C. bairdi Tanner crab is restricted to fishing east of 166ΓΈ W. long. A vessel operator may register for directed C. bairdi Tanner crab fishing only in the waters between l66ΓΈ W. long, and 163ΓΈ W. long.

(j) A vessel operator may register to, at the same time, fish for and retain C. opilio and C. bairdi Tanner crab west of l66ΓΈ W. long.

History: Eff. 9/29/96, Register 139; am 7/21/99, Register 151; am 8/8/99, Register 151; am 8/24/2002, Register 163; am 8/14/2005, Register 175

Authority: AS 16.05.251

Editor's note: The registration form specified in 5 AAC 35.506(e) and (f) may be sent by mail or facsimile to the department office in Dutch Harbor at Department of Fish and Game, P.O. Box 920587, Dutch Harbor, Alaska 99602-0587; Fax: (907) 581-1572; or the department office in Kodiak at Department of Fish and Game, Division of Commercial Fisheries, 211 Mission Rd., Kodiak, Alaska 99615-6399; Fax: (907) 486-1824.