5 AAC 01.240 - Marking and use of subsistence-taken salmon

(a) Repealed 8/14/87.

(b) Repealed 6/10/98.

(c)In Districts 1 - 3, during seasons when the department may allow the sale of king salmon, the department shall, by emergency order, close the season and immediately reopen a season during which a person may not possess king salmon taken for subsistence uses unless both tips (lobes) of the tail fin have been removed before the person conceals the salmon from plain view or transfers the salmon from the fishing site. A person may not sell or purchase salmon from which both tips (lobes) of the tail fin have been removed.

(d) In the Yukon River drainage, king salmon must be used primarily for human consumption and may not be targeted for dog food. Dried king salmon may not be used for dog food throughout the Yukon River drainage, except that whole fish that are unfit for human consumption, scraps, and fish under 16 inches in length may be fed to dogs. Whole king salmon caught incidentally during a subsistence chum salmon fishery in the following time periods and locations may also be fed to dogs:

(1) after July 10, in the Koyukuk River drainage;

(2) after July 20, in District 6 and the Tanana River drainage;

(3) after August 10, in Subdistrict 5-D, upstream of Circle City.

Notes

5 AAC 01.240

In effect before 1986; am 4/18/86, Register 98; am 8/14/87, Register 103; am/readopt 5/15/93, Register 126; am 6/10/98, Register 146; am 7/21/99, Register 151; am 6/17/2001, Register 158; em am 5/29/2001 - 9/25/2001, Register 158; am 8/24/2002, Register 163; am 6/7/2007, Register 182 ; am 6/28/2019, Register 230, May 2019

Authority:AS 16.05.251

AS 16.05.258