5 AAC 47.041. Sport fishing from commercially licensed vessels; charter vessel registration

(a) A person may sport fish from a registered commercial salmon hand troll or power troll vessel.

(b) Repealed 5/13/95.

(c) A person who sport fishes from a vessel licensed for commercial fishing, other than a charter vessel, in waters closed to commercial salmon fishing shall, immediately upon bringing a salmon on board, mark the salmon by removing its dorsal (large back) fin.

(d) Sport fishing from a commercially licensed vessel while commercially caught salmon are in possession is illegal in waters closed to commercial salmon fishing.

(e) A commercially licensed vessel registered to fish commercially for shrimp, Dungeness crab, or Tanner crab may not be used to take that species for sport fishing purposes during the period starting 14 days before an opening and ending 14 days following the closure of an open commercial season for that species in the district, area, or areas for which the vessel is registered.

History: Eff. 4/15/94, Register 130; am 5/13/95, Register 134; am 5/2/97, Register 142; am 5/25/2000, Register 154

Authority: AS 16.05.251

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