5 AAC 35.556 - Landing requirements for Registration Area J
(a) Except as
provided in (b) of this section, the landing provisions of
5
AAC 35.031 apply to all districts within Registration
Area J.
(b) The landing provisions
of 5 AAC 35.031(c)
(2) do not apply to the Bering Sea, Western
Aleutian, and Eastern Aleutian Districts of Area J.
(c) Notwithstanding
5
AAC 35.031(c), following the closure
of Registration Area J, or a portion of Registration Area J, to the taking of a
specified species of Tanner crab, a vessel validly registered for that area may
not have that species of Tanner crab on board the vessel in waters subject to
the jurisdiction of the state, if delivery is made
(1) in the district or subdistrict that the
Tanner crab were taken, or to a floating processor at St. Matthew or the
Pribilof Islands if the Tanner crab were taken in the Western Subdistrict of
the Bering Sea, after 24 hours following the closure;
(2) to Dutch Harbor, Akutan, or King Cove
from the
(A) Eastern Aleutian District, after
24 hours following the closure;
(B)
Western Aleutian District, after 72 hours following the closure, except that
the owner, or the owner's agent, of a vessel delivering to King Cove may
request additional time to deliver Tanner crab using the procedure specified in
(3) of this subsection;
(C) Eastern
Subdistrict of the Bering Sea District, after 24 hours following the closure,
except that a owner, or the owner's agent, of a vessel delivering to King Cove
may request additional time to deliver Tanner crab using the procedure
specified in (3) of this subsection;
(D) Western Subdistrict of the Bering Sea
District, after 72 hours following the closure;
(3) to Adak or a location east of King Cove,
or if the vessel owner, or the owner's agent, wishes to request additional time
to deliver Tanner crab under (c)(2)(B) or (c)(2)(C) of this section,
(A) the vessel owner, or the owner's agent,
shall contact, by radio or telephone, a representative of the department in
Dutch Harbor within 24 hours after the closure;
(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 after the closure and proceeded directly to the processing
location, 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.
(d) In the Kodiak, Chignik, and South
Peninsula Districts, or a section of those districts, when the Tanner crab
fishery is closed and gear has been stored as specified in
5
AAC 35.527(6), a vessel with Tanner
crab on board may not be used for any purpose, except to travel to the port of
delivery to offload the Tanner crab. The vessel operator may not pull any gear,
baited or stored, or place any gear in storage. Once the Tanner crab on board
the vessel has been off-loaded to the port of delivery, the vessel operator
shall immediately remove any pot gear remaining on the fishing grounds and
return any crab caught to the water without further harm. All pot gear must be
placed in storage or on board the vessel within three days following the
closure of a section or district.
Notes
Authority:AS 16.05.251
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