5 AAC 40.081 - District 9: Port Armstrong Special Harvest Area
(a) The Port
Armstrong Special Harvest Area for king salmon consists of the waters of Port
Armstrong west of 134º 39.47' W. long., and will be open to harvest by the
hatchery permit holder from 12:01 a.m. April 15 until 11:59 p.m. July
31.
(b) The Port Armstrong Special
Harvest Area for pink, chum, and coho salmon consists of the waters of Port
Armstrong west of a line from Point Eliza at 56º 17.73' N. lat., 134º
38.75' W. long. to a point on the Baranof Island shoreline at 56º 17.98'
N. lat., 134º 38.35' W. long., and will be open to harvest by the hatchery
permit holder from 12:01 a.m. April 15 until 11:59 p.m. July 31.
(c) A hatchery permit holder harvesting
salmon within the special harvest area is exempt from the provisions of
5 AAC 33.310.
(d) The Port Armstrong Special Harvest Area,
described in (b) of this section, will be closed to commercial fishing, other
than hatchery cost recovery fishing, from 12:01 a.m. July 31 until 11:59 p.m.
September 30. The commissioner may open and close, by emergency order, fishing
periods for common property fisheries to harvest salmon surplus to broodstock
and cost recovery returning to the Port Armstrong salmon hatchery.
(e) Notwithstanding
5 AAC 33.330, legal gear types for the hatchery permit
holder in the special harvest area are purse seine, hand purse seine, beach
seine, dip net, drift gillnet with six inch or larger mesh, and troll
gear.
Notes
Authority:AS 16.05.060
AS 16.05.251
AS 16.10.440
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