5 AAC 06.355 - Bristol Bay Commercial Set and Drift Gillnet Sockeye Salmon Fisheries Management and Allocation Plan
(a) The purpose of this management and
allocation plan is to ensure an adequate escapement, as determined by the
department, of sockeye salmon into the river systems of the Nushagak,
Naknek-Kvichak, Egegik, and Ugashik Districts and to distribute, to the extent
practicable, the harvestable surplus of sockeye salmon to the set and drift
gillnet fisheries for the allocation percentages specified in (b) of this
section. This plan also provides management guidelines to the department in an
effort to preclude allocations conflicts between various users of this
resource.
(b) It is the intent of
the Board of Fisheries (board) that Bristol Bay sockeye salmon be harvested in
the traditional harvest locations and that historical sockeye salmon catches be
allocated between drift and set gillnet fisheries by district. To achieve this
allocation, the department shall manage, to the extent practicable, the
commercial sockeye salmon fisheries to achieve the allocation percentages
established in
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AAC 06.364 (Naknek-Kvichak District),
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AAC 06.365 (Egegik District),
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AAC 06.366 (Ugashik District), and
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AAC 06.367 (Nushagak District).
(c) Repealed 3/30/2007.
(d) The department shall manage, subject to
existing management plans, fishery openings, closures, and areas to
(1) achieve adequate escapement from all
segments of the run by spacing openings throughout the run and, to the extent
practicable, manage for escapements to fall within the lower or upper portions
of escapement goals proportional to the run size based on the preseason
forecast and inscason assessment of tbc run size;
(2) maintain and improve stock specific
management through the use of district, subdistrict, and section openings and
closures;
(3) distribute fish
within individual districts and subdistricts through the spacing and duration
of openings;
(4) reduce intensive
boundary line fishing through the spacing and duration of openings;
(5) reduce harvest of stocks bound for other
districts, subdistricts, or sections in accordance with specific regulatory
management plans.
Notes
Authority:AS 16.05.060
AS 16.05.251
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