Section 5.33.385. Mist Cove Terminal Harvest Area Salmon Management Plan.

	(a)  The Mist Cove Terminal Harvest Area for coho salmon using troll gear is established adjacent to and exclusive of the Mist Cove Special Harvest Area specified in 5 AAC 40.042(a)(8). The Mist Cove Terminal Harvest Area consists of the waters that are outside of the Mist Cove Special Harvest Area and north of the latitude of 56_ 28.00' N. lat., west of a line from 56_ 28.00' N. lat., 134_ 37.00' W. long. to Patterson Point Light to a point on the Baranof Island shore at 56_ 32.52' N. lat., 134_ 40.18' W. long. and east of the longitude of 134_ 41.00' W. long. in Deep Cove.  
	(b)  The commissioner shall open and close, by emergency order, fishing seasons and periods to manage the harvest of excess salmon returning to the Mist Cove Terminal Harvest Area.  
	(c)  The Mist Cove Special Harvest Area consisting of all waters south and west of a line from 56_ 31.70' N. lat., 134_ 39.97' W. long. to 56_ 31.27' N. lat., 134_ 39.85' W. long. is closed to commercial fishing, other than hatchery cost recovery fishing, from 12:01 a.m. July 31 until 11:59 p.m. September 30, and the waters south of a line from ADF&G regulatory markers located at 56_ 31.07' N. lat., 134_ 40.20' W. long. to 56_ 31.07' N. lat., 134_ 40.12' W. long. are closed to commercial salmon fishing, other than hatchery cost recovery fishing.  

Authorities

16.05.060;16.05.251

Notes

Authority

AS 16.05.060 AS 16.05.251

History

Eff. 7/26/2003, Register 167; am 5/31/2009, Register 190; am 7/1/2015, Register 214