Section 5.07.331. Gillnet specifications and operations.

	(a)  A gillnet must have a mesh size of six inches or less, and may not be more than 45 meshes in depth. The aggregate length of a set gillnet or drift gillnet may not exceed 50 fathoms, except that if the commissioner determines that there is a harvestable surplus of salmon, the commissioner may, by emergency order, close the fishing season and immediately reopen a season during which the aggregate length of a set gillnet or drift gillnet may not exceed 100 fathoms.  
	(b)  Repealed 5/22/2016.  
	(c)  Repealed 5/22/2016.  
	(d)  Repealed 5/22/2016.  
	(e)  No gillnet gear may be operated in a manner to obstruct more than one-half the width of any waterway. In the intertidal zone this restriction applies at all stages of the tide.  

Authorities

16.05.060;16.05.251

Notes

Authority

AS 16.05.060 AS 16.05.251 Editor's note: Before Register 218, July 2016, a portion of the substance of 5 AAC 07.331(a) was contained in former 5 AAC 07.331(b) - (d).

History

In effect before 1985; am 5/11/85, Register 94; am 5/19/2004, Register 170; am 6/7/2007, Register 182; am 4/13/2013, Register 206; am 5/22/2016, Register 218

References

5.07.331