5 AAC 24.368 - Wally Noerenberg (Esther Island) Hatchery Management Plan
(a) The department,
in consultation with the hatchery operator, shall manage the Esther
Subdistrict, the Perry Island Subdistrict, and the Granite Bay Subdistrict to
achieve the corporation's escapement goal for the Wally Noerenberg (Esther
Island) salmon hatchery. The Granite Bay Subdistrict will be closed only if the
Esther and the Perry Island Subdistricts are not achieving adequate hatchery
escapement.
(b) Deleted
4/19/91.
(c) The Wally Noerenberg
Hatchery Terminal Harvest Area consists of the waters of Lake Bay: and Quillian
Bay inside of a line from Hodgkin Point at 60° 46.93' N. lat., 148°
02.10' W. long, to Esther Light at 60° 47.14' N. lat., 148° 06.02' W.
long., excluding the waters of the Wally Noerenberg Special Harvest Area.
(d) The Wally Noerenberg Hatchery
Special Harvest Area consists of the waters of Lake Bay north of 60° 47.56'
N. lat.
(e) Notwithstanding
5
AAC 24.320 and
5
AAC 24.330, and except as otherwise provided by
emergency order, a corporation holding a permit under
AS
16.10.400 for the Wally Noerenberg Hatchery,
and an agent, contractor, or employee of that corporation who is authorized
under 5 AAC 40.005(g),
may harvest salmon within the Wally Noerenberg Special Harvest Area from 6:00
a.m. May 25 through 6:00 p.m. September 15, using purse seines, hand purse
seines, and beach seines.
(f) The
commissioner may open, by emergency order, a season and establish fishing
periods during which seine gear may be used in the Esther Subdistrict for the
purpose of preventing deterioration of fish quality of the harvestable surplus
of chum salmon that is not being adequately harvested by the drift gillnet
fleet.
Notes
Under the authority of AS 44.62.125(b)(6) and AS 01.05.031(b)(11), 5 AAC 24.368(b) was deleted by the regulations attorney as of Register 119 (October 1991), because as of April 30, 1991, the subject matter of that subsection was relocated to 5 AAC 24.370.
Authority:AS 16.05.060
AS 16.05.251
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