Section 5.21.331. Gillnet specifications and operations.

	(a)  No person may operate a set gillnet that has not been intentionally set, staked, anchored or otherwise fixed, and no person may operate a drift gillnet that has been intentionally set, staked, anchored or otherwise fixed.  
	(b)  The maximum mesh size for gillnets is six inches.  
	(c)  A drift gillnet may not be more than 150 fathoms in length and 45 meshes in depth. No person may operate more than one drift gillnet.  
	(d)  A set gillnet may not be more than 35 fathoms in length and 45 meshes in depth. South of the latitude of Anchor Point, 30 fathoms of seine webbing may be used on the shore between high and low water levels. A person may not operate more than four set gillnets with more than 105 fathoms of set gillnet in the aggregate, except that  
		(1) on Fire Island a person may operate more than four set gillnets, but the aggregate length of the nets may not exceed 105 fathoms;  
		(2) repealed 6/11/2005.  
	(e)  Set gillnets shall be operated in substantially a straight line. No more than 20 yards of each set gillnet may be used as a single hook.  
	(f)  Repealed 3/8/74.  
	(g)  Repealed 4/2/88.  
	(h)  Notwithstanding 5 AAC 39.250(c), in the Cook Inlet Area, a person may use single filament mesh web in a drift gillnet or in a set gillnet.  
	(i)  A CFEC permit holder who holds two Cook Inlet set gillnet CFEC permits may operate an aggregate length of set gillnets not to exceed 210 fathoms in length and 45 meshes in depth, except that in the Upper Subdistrict no more than 105 fathoms in length may be more than 29 meshes in depth. A single set gillnet may not exceed 35 fathoms in length. Notwithstanding 5 AAC 39.280, in order to identify the gillnet as a dual permit set gillnet, the permit holder shall mark the buoys as specified in 5 AAC 21.334 with both of the permit holder's five-digit CFEC permit serial numbers followed by the letter "D" on the identification buoy. In addition, each set gillnet operated under this subsection that is not more than 29 meshes in depth must be identified at one end of the gillnet with an attached blue buoy that is not less than nine and one-half inches in diameter. All identifiers must be displayed in a manner that is plainly visible, unobscured, and in a color that contrasts with the background.  

Authorities

16.05.251

Notes

Authority

AS 16.05.251

History

In effect before 1987; am 3/29/87, Register 101; am 4/2/88, Register 105; em am 4/30/91 - 5/30/91, Register 118 [not printed]; am 7/21/91, Register 119; am 4/22/99, Register 150; am 5/18/2000, Register 154; am 6/11/2005, Register 174; am 6/4/2008, Register 186; am 5/21/2011, Register 198; am 6/12/2011, Register 198; am 5/18/2014, Register 210