5 AAC 27.050 - Lawful gear for herring
(a) During an open
herring fishing season in a registration area, herring may only be taken by
seines, gillnets, trawls, or pounds as specified in
5
AAC 27.100 - 5 AAC 27.990. In areas in which legal
gear is not specified in
5
AAC 27.100 - 5 AAC 27.990 for use during an open
herring fishing season, herring may be taken by legal types of gear specified
in 5 AAC
39.105(d).
(b) No net or other obstruction may be placed
across the entrance to any lagoon or bay that may prevent the free passage of
herring.
(c) Unless otherwise
specified in this chapter, the mesh size of a herring gillnet may not be less
than two and one-eighth inches or more than two and one-half inches.
(d) Gillnets may be fished with the float
line and floats below the surface of the water.
(e) A person may not use a gillnet to take
herring at the same time that the person is using a purse seine, hand purse
seine, or beach seine to take herring.
(f) A purse seine and a hand purse seine,
have stopped fishing when both ends of the seine, excluding skiff tow lines and
straps, are attached to the fishing vessel. A beach seine has stopped fishing
when both ends of the seine are on the beach above the water line or when all
of the lead line is removed from the water.
Notes
Authority:AS 16.05.251
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