5 AAC 01.120 - Lawful gear and gear specifications

(a) Salmon may be taken only by gillnets, beach seines, or, as specified in (f) of this section, by a hook and line attached to a rod or pole.

(b) Fish other than salmon may be taken by set gillnet, drift gillnet, beach seine, fish wheel, pot, longline, fyke net, dip net, jigging gear, spear, and lead, or, as specified in (f) of this section, by a hook and line attached to a rod or a pole.

(c) A gillnet may not obstruct more than one-half the width of any fish stream and any channel or side channel of a fish stream. A stationary fishing device may not obstruct more than one-half the width of any salmon stream and any channel or side channel of a salmon stream.

(d) In the Kotzebue District, kegs or buoys attached to subsistence gillnets may be any color except red.

(e) In the Kotzebue District, gillnets used to take sheefish may not be more than 50 fathoms in aggregate length nor 12 meshes in depth, nor have a mesh size larger than seven inches.

(f) A person may use a hook and line attached to a rod or a pole when subsistence fishing only

(1) in the state waters of, and all flowing waters that drain into, the Chukchi Sea or Kotzebue Sound from Point Hope to Cape Prince of Wales; or

(2) through the ice.

Notes

5 AAC 01.120

In effect before 1985; am 5/11/85, Register 94; am 4/2/88, Register 105; am/readopt 5/15/93, Register 126; am 6/17/2001, Register 158; am 8/23/2009, Register 191; am 5/22/2016, Register 218, July 2016

At its February 23 - 27, 1993 meeting, the Board of Fisheries readopted 5 AAC 01.120(a) - (e) in their entirety without change, under ch. 1, SSSLA 1992 (the 1992 subsistence law), which repealed and reenacted AS 16.05.258.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