Alaska Statutes: AS 16.43.290. Optimum Number of Entry Permits.

Alaska Statutes. Title 16. Fish and Game Chapter 43. Regulation of Entry Into Alaska Commercial Fisheries Section 290. Optimum Number of Entry Permits.

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AS 16.43.290. Optimum Number of Entry Permits.

Following the issuance of entry permits under AS 16.43.270 , the commission shall establish the optimum number of entry permits for each fishery based upon a reasonable balance of the following general standards:
        (1) the number of entry permits sufficient to maintain an economically healthy fishery that will result in a reasonable average rate of economic return to the fishermen participating in that fishery, considering time fished and necessary investments in vessels and gear;
        (2) the number of entry permits necessary to harvest the allowable commercial take of the fishery resource during all years in an orderly, efficient manner, and consistent with sound fishery management techniques;
        (3) the number of entry permits sufficient to avoid serious economic hardship to those currently engaged in the fishery, considering other economic opportunities reasonably available to them.

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