Section 5.75.075. Sport fishing services and sport fishing guide services; registration requirements; regulation of activities.

	(a)  An owner of a business intending to conduct sport fishing services shall register with the department before the business conducts sport fishing services. To meet the registration requirements of this section, the owner shall complete and submit a sport fishing operator registration form provided by the department. The following information regarding the business conducting the sport fishing service must be provided on the sport fishing operator registration form:  
		(1) the name, permanent residence address, local residence address, and mailing address of the owner;  
		(2) the name of the business;  
		(3) the areas in which the fishing services will be provided.  
	(b)  Before providing sport fishing guide services, a person shall complete and submit to the department a current annual sport fishing guide registration form provided by the department. The following information regarding the applicant must be provided on the sport fishing guide registration form:  
		(1) the name, permanent residence address, and mailing address of the applicant;  
		(2) current Alaska sport fishing license number.  
	(c)  While engaged in providing sport fishing guide services, a sport fishing guide shall have readily available for inspection and shall display upon request of a local representative of the department or a peace officer of the state, and while on salt water or navigable fresh water within six hours after being on salt water a law enforcement representative of the National Marine Fisheries Service or a representative of the United States Coast Guard, the following:  
		(1) the sport fishing guide's current  
			(A) sport fishing guide registration form validated by the department; and  
			(B) applicable logbooks as required in 5 AAC 75.076(c);  
		(2) a copy of the current sport fishing operator registration form of the sport fishing guide's employer, or, if the sport fishing guide is also a sport fishing operator, the guide's current sport fishing operator registration form;  
		(3) current sport fishing licenses, tags, stamps, or permits that are required to engage in the sport fishery for which the sport fishing guide services are provided;  
		(4) an identification card issued to the sport fishing guide by a state or federal agency that bears a photograph of the sport fishing guide;  
		(5) if on a vessel that provides sport fishing guide services in salt water, the sport fishing license and harvest record of each client on board the vessel.  

Authorities

16.05.251

Notes

Reference

17 AAC 25.210
17 AAC 25.220
5 AAC 47.090
5 AAC 57.140
5 AAC 75.076
5 AAC 75.085

Authority

AS 16.05.251 Editor's note: The forms specified in 5 AAC 75.075 are available at any Division of Sport Fish regional office of the Department of Fish and Game.

History

Eff. 4/18/86, Register 98; am 5/13/95, Register 134; am 4/23/98, Register 146; am 5/19/98, Register 146; am 2/10/2005, Register 173; am 1/1/2008, Register 184; am 3/4/2015, Register 213

References

5.75.075