5 AAC 18.332 - Seine specifications and operations
(a) A purse seine
or hand purse seine may not be less than 100 fathoms or more than 250 fathoms
in length. A seine may not be less than 100 meshes or more than 325 meshes in
depth. At least 50 fathoms of a seine must be 150 meshes in depth.
(b) One lead no more than 100 fathoms in
length may be used with each purse seine or hand purse seine. The aggregate
length of seine and lead may not exceed 250 fathoms. Leads must be removed from
the water within two hours after a season or fishing period closure. Each lead
must have at each end a buoy, cork, or float plainly and legibly marked with
the operator's five-digit CFEC permit serial number.
(c) Beach seines no less than 100 fathoms nor
more than 225 fathoms in length may be used.
(d) Beach seines may not be less than 100
meshes in depth.
(e) When an anchor
is used during the operation of a purse seine, hand purse seine, or beach
seine, only the shoreward end of the seine or lead may be anchored; the seine
shall be attached to the licensed vessel, and the vessel may not be anchored,
except that, in the operation of a beach seine, an additional anchor, used to
anchor the vessel to a beach, may be used only while retrieving the beach
seine.
(f) In the Mainland
District, it is unlawful to take salmon with the assistance of an aircraft
directing the operation of the seine gear.
(g) Seine mesh size may not be more than
seven inches.
(h) A ring, strap,
purse, or tow line may be attached to the corkline, ribline, or leadline of a
beach seine. Hydraulic power may be used to set, retrieve, or purse a beach
seine. A beach seine must be set from, and hauled to, a beach, or to a vessel
anchored to a beach. One end of a beach seine must remain on a beach above the
water surface at all times during the set.
(i) A beach seine has ceased fishing when all
of the leadline is out of the water.
(j) Overlapping panels of net web may not be
used in seine leads.
(k)
Notwithstanding
5 AAC 39.240, a CFEC purse seine salmon permit holder
may use a registered salmon seine fishing vessel, when it has seine gear on
board, to tow another registered salmon seine fishing vessel with seine gear on
board if the permit holder for the vessel being towed is on board one of the
vessels.
(l) A purse seine is
considered to have ceased fishing as specified in
5 AAC 39.260(c).
Notes
Authority:AS 16.05.251
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