5 AAC 02.325 - Subsistence Tanner crab fishery
(a) In that portion
of the Cook Inlet Area outside the nonsubsistence area described in
5 AAC 99.015(a)(3), in the subsistence
taking of Tanner crab,
(1) male Tanner crab
may be taken only from September 1 through March 15
(2) before harvesting Tanner crab, a person
must obtain a subsistence permit as specified in
5 AAC 02.015; upon taking Tanner crab, and before
concealing the Tanner crab from plain view or removing the Tanner crab from the
fishing site, the person must enter the catch information requested on the
permit;
(3) the daily bag and
possession limit is five male Tanner crab and the seasonal limit is 40 male
Tanner crab;
(4) only male Tanner
crab four and one-half inches or greater in width of shell may be taken or
possessed.
(b)
Notwithstanding the provisions of
5 AAC 02.307 and (a) of this section, if the provisions
of 5 AAC 35.408(e)
apply, then male Tanner crab may be taken only from October 1 through the last
day of February; bag and possession limit of three male Tanner crab; seasonal
baa limit of 20 male Tanner crab; no more than one pot or ring net per person
with a maximum of one pot or ring net per vessel may be used to take Tanner
crab.
Notes
Authority:AS 16.05.251
AS 16.05.258
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