5 AAC 34.841 - Landing requirements for Registration Area T
(a) Notwithstanding
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AAC 34.031(e) (3), following the
closure of Registration Area T to the taking of a specified species of king
crab, a vessel validly registered for that area may not have that species of
king crab on board the vessel in waters subject to the jurisdiction of the
state, if delivery is made to
(1) Dutch
Harbor, Akutan, or King Cove, after 30 hours following the closure;
(2) Adak, the Pribilof Islands, or a location
east of King Cove,
(A) the vessel owner, or
the owner's agent, shall contact, by radio or telephone, a representative of
the department in Dutch Harbor within 30 hours following the closure;
and
(B) the representative of the
department in Dutch Harbor shall grant a reasonable amount of additional time
for the vessel to reach the port of delivery; the amount of additional time
shall be determined under the assumption that the vessel departed the fishing
grounds immediately following the closure and proceeded directly to the
processing location.
(b) For purposes of this section, a vessel
validly registered for Registration Area T landing king crab at Dutch Harbor,
Akutan, or King Cove will be deemed to have landed its catch in the area for
which it is validly registered at the time of landing.
(c) To comply with
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AAC 34.031(b), the vessel owner, the
owner's agent, or the operator of a tender vessel registered for Registration
Area T that intends to land king crab in another registration area shall make
the radio or telephone contact required under (a) of this section with a
representative of the department at Dutch Harbor.
(d) Repealed 8/8/99.
(e) After the king crab fishing season is
closed, a vessel with king crab on board may not be used for any purpose except
to travel to the port of delivery to offload king crab, and the vessel may not
pull any gear, baited or stored, or place any gear into storage, except that a
vessel may stop en route and offload pots at a storage facility if the vessel
operator first contacts a representative of the department in Dutch Harbor and
provides information on the location of the storage facility, the expected time
of gear placement at that facility, and the expected time the vessel will
depart the storage facility en route to the port of delivery. After king crab
have been delivered to the port of delivery, the vessel operator shall remove
any pot gear remaining on the grounds, return any king crab in pot gear to the
water immediately without further harm, and place the pot gear in an authorized
storage area or on board the vessel within 10 days after the closure of the
season.
(f) After the season is
closed and before delivery of king crab, a vessel may not have a line in the
block on board that vessel.
Notes
Authority:AS 16.05.251
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