5 AAC 40.990 - Definitions
In this chapter,
(1) "commissioner" means the commissioner of
the Department of Fish and Game or his designee;
(2) "common property fishery" means any
fishery in which the general public is allowed to harvest fish subject to state
and federal law;
(3) "completed
application" means a final application that has been accepted by the
commissioner and that contains a draft basic management plan for the operation
of the facility and a completed management feasibility analysis;
(4) "department" means the Alaska Department
of Fish and Game;
(5) "enhancement"
means a strategy designed to supplement allowable harvest of natural freshwater
and anadromous species; enhancement activities are primarily designed to
implement artificial or semi-artificial production systems or to increase the
amount of productive natural habitat;
(6) "escapement" means all fish that escape
the common property fishery and includes two categories of escapement:
(A) the number of broodstock or spawners
required to perpetuate and achieve natural, semi-artificial, and artificial
production objectives; and
(B) the
number of hatchery-produced fish taken for the hatchery harvest requirement, to
be used to pay for the hatchery's reasonable operating and capital costs, at
current market prices for the species involved;
(7) "permit" means a private nonprofit salmon
hatchery permit, issued by the commissioner, which has not been suspended or
revoked;
(8) "PNP coordinator"
means the manager of the private nonprofit hatchery program within the
department;
(9) "regional
comprehensive salmon plan" is a document that integrates and assembles all
relevant information regarding the development and protection of the salmon
resource, for a specific long-range period of time, into a strategic plan for
an established region of the state;
(10) "rehabilitation" means a strategy
directed toward restoring debilitated natural stocks to optimum production
levels; rehabilitation strategies consist of regulatory and nonregulatory
activities; nonregulatory activities are directed at increasing the survival of
debilitated broodstock and include removal of migration inhibitors, stream
restoration, incubation and subsequent planting of eyed eggs, fry and
fingerlings, lake fertilization and predator-competitor control;
(11) "salmon stock" means a population of
salmon of a single species identified with a specific water system or portion
of a water system, which share a common spawning period;
(12) "special harvest area" means an area
designated by the commissioner or the Board of Fisheries where hatchery returns
are to be harvested by the hatchery operators, and, in some situations by the
common property fishery;
(13)
"terminal harvest area" means an area designated by the commissioner, Board of
Fisheries regulation, or department emergency order where hatchery returns have
achieved a reasonable degree of segregation from naturally occurring stocks and
may be harvested by the common property fishery without adverse
effects;
(14) "broodstock" means
sexually mature fish from which eggs or milt have been or will be extracted for
use of the gametes in artificial propagation.
Notes
Authority:AS 16.05.020
AS 16.05.092
AS 16.10.375
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