5 AAC 40.990. Definitions

In this chapter,

(1) "commissioner" means the commissioner of the Department of Fish and Game or his designee;

(2) "common property fishery" means any fishery in which the general public is allowed to harvest fish subject to state and federal law;

(3) "completed application" means a final application that has been accepted by the commissioner and that contains a draft basic management plan for the operation of the facility and a completed management feasibility analysis;

(4) "department" means the Alaska Department of Fish and Game;

(5) "enhancement" means a strategy designed to supplement allowable harvest of natural freshwater and anadromous species; enhancement activities are primarily designed to implement artificial or semi-artificial production systems or to increase the amount of productive natural habitat;

(6) "escapement" means all fish that escape the common property fishery and includes two categories of escapement:

(A) the number of broodstock or spawners required to perpetuate and achieve natural, semi-artificial, and artificial production objectives; and

(B) the number of hatchery-produced fish taken for the hatchery harvest requirement, to be used to pay for the hatchery's reasonable operating and capital costs, at current market prices for the species involved;

(7) "permit" means a private nonprofit salmon hatchery permit, issued by the commissioner, which has not been suspended or revoked;

(8) "PNP coordinator" means the manager of the private nonprofit hatchery program within the department;

(9) "regional comprehensive salmon plan" is a document that integrates and assembles all relevant information regarding the development and protection of the salmon resource, for a specific long-range period of time, into a strategic plan for an established region of the state;

(10) "rehabilitation" means a strategy directed toward restoring debilitated natural stocks to optimum production levels; rehabilitation strategies consist of regulatory and nonregulatory activities; nonregulatory activities are directed at increasing the survival of debilitated broodstock and include removal of migration inhibitors, stream restoration, incubation and subsequent planting of eyed eggs, fry and fingerlings, lake fertilization and predator-competitor control;

(11) "salmon stock" means a population of salmon of a single species identified with a specific water system or portion of a water system, which share a common spawning period;

(12) "special harvest area" means an area designated by the commissioner or the Board of Fisheries where hatchery returns are to be harvested by the hatchery operators, and, in some situations by the common property fishery;

(13) "terminal harvest area" means an area designated by the commissioner, Board of Fisheries regulation, or department emergency order where hatchery returns have achieved a reasonable degree of segregation from naturally occurring stocks and may be harvested by the common property fishery without adverse effects.

History: Eff. 3/31/85, Register 93; am 4/28/95, Register 134

Authority: AS 16.05.020

AS 16.05.092

AS 16.10.375

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