5 AAC 56.024. Harvest record required; annual limits

(a) The following provisions regarding harvest records and annual limits apply to taking and retaining king salmon 20 inches or greater in length in the waters of the Kenai Peninsula Area that flow into Cook Inlet north of the latitude of Point Adam:

(1) a nontransferable harvest record is required and must be in the possession of each person taking and retaining king salmon 20 inches or greater in length; for a licensed angler, a harvest record appears on the back of the angler's sport fishing license; for an angler not required to have a sport fishing license, a harvest record may be obtained, without charge, from department offices and fishing license vendors in the Cook Inlet area;

(2) immediately upon landing a king salmon 20 inches or greater in length, the angler shall enter the date, location (water body), and species of the catch, in ink, on the harvest record;

(3) nothing in this section affects or modifies a bag or possession limit specified in this chapter; the annual limit for the combined waters described in this subsection and in 5 AAC 58.024(a) and 5 AAC 61.024(a) is five king salmon 20 inches or greater in length, not more than two of which may be taken from that portion of the Kenai River drainage open to king salmon fishing, and not more than two of which may be taken, in combination, from Deep Creek and the Anchor River.

(b) The following provisions regarding harvest records and annual limits apply to taking and retaining rainbow and steelhead trout 20 inches or greater in length in the waters of the Kenai Peninsula Area that flow into Cook Inlet north of the latitude of Point Adam:

(1) a nontransferable harvest record is required and must be in the possession of each person taking and retaining rainbow and steelhead trout 20 inches or greater in length; for a licensed angler, a harvest record appears on the back of the angler's sport fishing license; for an angler not required to have a sport fishing license, a harvest record may be obtained, without charge, from department offices and fishing license vendors in the Cook Inlet area;

(2) immediately upon landing a rainbow or steelhead trout 20 inches or greater in length, the angler shall enter the date, location (water body), and species, in ink, on the harvest record;

(3) nothing in this section affects or modifies a bag or possession limit specified in this chapter; the annual limit for the combined waters described in this subsection and 5 AAC 61.024(b) is two rainbow or steelhead trout 20 inches or greater in length.

(c) A person obtaining a duplicate sport fishing license or duplicate harvest record shall record on that form all the information required under (a)(2) and (b)(2) of this section for all fish previously landed during that year that were subject to the harvest record reporting requirements of this section and 5 AAC 58.024 and 5 AAC 61.024.

History: Eff. 2/25/98, Register 145; am 6/13/99, Register 150; am 6/22/2002, Register 162; am 6/11/2005, Register 174

Authority: AS 16.05.251

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