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Title 5 - Fish and GamePart 1 - Commercial and Subsistence Fishing and Private Nonprofit Salmon HatcheriesChapter 02 - Subsistence Shellfish Fishery
Article 7 - Bering Sea Area
Section 5 AAC 02.610 - Subsistence shrimp fishery

5 Alaska Admin. Code § 02.610

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Section 5 AAC 02.610 - Subsistence shrimp fishery

In the subsistence taking of shrimp, there is no closed season and no daily bag and possession limits, except that the operator of a commercially licensed and registered shrimp fishing vessel used in the subsistence taking of shrimp during a closed commercial shrimp fishing season or within a closed commercial shrimp fishing district, section, or portion of a fishing district or section,

(1) shall, before taking shrimp, obtain a subsistence fishing permit from the department that specifies the area and the date the vessel operator intends to subsistence fish; and
(2) may not possess more than 500 pounds of shrimp on board the vessel.

5 AAC 02.610

In effect before 1988; readopt 5/15/93, Register 126; am 7/1/2015, Register 214, July 2015

At its February 23 - 27, 1993 meeting, the Board of Fisheries readopted 5 AAC 02.610 in its entirety without change, under ch. 1, SSSLA 1992 (the 1992 subsistence law), which repealed and reenacted AS 16.05.258.

Authority:AS 16.05.251

AS 16.05.258