5 AAC 02.425 - Subsistence Tanner crab fishery
(a) In the
subsistence taking of Tanner crab
(1) no more
than five Tanner crab pots or ring nets per person may be used to take Tanner
crab with a maximum of 10 Tanner crab pots or ring nets per vessel; in addition
to the marking requirements specified in
5 AAC 02.010(e), a Tanner crab pot must
have "Tanner crab" legibly inscribed on the keg or buoy attached to the Tanner
crab pot;
(2) in a commercial
Tanner crab section of the Kodiak District, described in
5 AAC 35.505(a), that will be open to a
commercial Tanner crab fishery, the subsistence taking of Tanner crab is
prohibited in waters 25 fathoms or more in depth during the 14 days immediately
before the scheduled opening of a commercial Tanner crab fishing season in that
section;
(3) the daily bag and
possession limit is 12 crab per person and only male crab may be
taken;
(4) only male Tanner crab
five and one-half inches or greater in width of shell may be taken or
possessed.
(b) In this
section, "Tanner crab pot" is a pot that is no more than 10 feet long by 10
feet wide by 42 inches high with rigid tunnel eye openings that individually
are less than five inches in one dimension, with tunnel eye opening perimeters
that individually are more than 36 inches or a pot that is no more than 10 feet
long by 10 feet wide by 42 inches high and that tapers inward from its base to
a top consisting of one horizontal opening of any size.
Notes
At its February 23 - 27, 1993 meeting, the Board of Fisheries readopted 5 AAC 02.425(1), (3), and (4) in their entirety without change, under ch. 1, SSSLA 1992 (the 1992 subsistence law), which repealed and reenacted AS 16.05.258.
Authority:AS 16.05.251
AS 16.05.258
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