Section 5 AAC 04.390 - Subdistricts 2 and 3 of the Norton Sound District Salmon Management Plan(b) The department shall manage salmon fisheries in the Subdistricts 2 and 3 as follows: (1) in the commercial chum salmon fishery, (A) repealed 6/28/2019; (i) Kwiniuk River: 11,500 - 23,000 chum salmon; and(ii) Tubutulik River: 9,200 - 18,400 chum salmon;(B) the chum salmon harvest may not exceed 15,000 fish before the department's mid-July run assessment in Subdistrict 2;(C) the fishery may occur only if the department projects that chum salmon escapement goals will be achieved and the harvestable surplus will more than meet subsistence needs;(2) a commercial pink salmon fishery may occur only if subsistence needs are expected to be met and chum salmon escapement goals achieved, or the department determines that, after July 6 in Subdistrict 3 and after July 14 in Subdistrict 2, there is a harvestable surplus of pink salmon and that a directed pink salmon commercial fishery will not have a significant impact on escapement goals or subsistence use of chum salmon;(3) in the commercial coho salmon fishery, the fishery may occur only when the department determines that further restrictions would have no impact on achieving chum salmon escapement goals;(4) the commissioner may not place restrictions on subsistence fishing for chum salmon by emergency order, unless all directed chum salmon commercial fishing has been closed and sport fishing has been appropriately restricted in the subdistrict as provided in 5 AAC 01.180 - 5 AAC 01.184.Eff. 6/17/2001, Register 158; am 5/19/2010, Register 194; am 4/13/2013, Register 206; am 6/28/2019, Register 230, May 2019Authority:AS 16.05.251
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