Section 5.75.012. Sport Shark Fishery Management Plan.

	(a)  The department shall manage sport shark fisheries for sustained yield.  
	(b)  Recognizing the lack of stock status information, the potential for rapid growth in the sport shark fishery, and the potential for over-exploitation, the following provisions apply to the sport shark fishery:  
		(1) sharks may be taken from January 1 through December 31; the bag and possession limits for sharks in salt water is one fish;  
		(2) the annual limit for sharks in salt water is two fish;  
		(3) a nontransferable harvest record is required and must be in the possession of each angler sport fishing for sharks in salt water; the harvest record  
			(A) for a licensed angler is located on the back of the angler's sport fishing license;  
			(B) for an angler not required to have a sport fishing license may be obtained, without charge, from department offices and sport fishing license vendors throughout the state;  
		(4) immediately upon landing a shark from salt water, an angler shall enter the date, location (water body), and species of the catch, in ink, on the harvest record; and  
		(5) notwithstanding (1) - (4) of this subsection, the bag and possession limit for spiny dogfish is five fish, with no size or annual limit; a harvest record is not required for spiny dogfish.  
	(c)  The provisions of (b) of this section also apply in the adjoining waters of the exclusive economic zone.  
	(d)  For the purpose of this section, "shark" means a species of the orders Lamniformes, Squaliformes, or Carcharhiniformes.  

Authorities

16.05.251;16.10.190

Notes

Reference

5 AAC 47.020
5 AAC 55.022
5 AAC 58.022
5 AAC 64.022
5 AAC 65.020
5 AAC 67.020

Authority

AS 16.05.251 AS 16.10.190

History

Eff. 4/23/98, Register 146; am 6/10/2010, Register 194; am 6/1/2013, Register 206