Section 5 AAC 33.383 - District 7: Anita Bay Terminal Harvest Area Salmon Management Plan(a) The Anita Bay Terminal Harvest Area consists of the waters of Anita Bay south and west of a line from the tip of Anita Point at 56º 13.68' N. lat., 132º 22.48' W. long., to a point on the northern shore at 56º 14.26' N. lat., 132º 23.93' W. long.(b) The commissioner shall open and close, by emergency order, fishing seasons and periods to manage the common property fisheries to harvest excess salmon returning to the Anita Bay Terminal Harvest Area. The Terminal Harvest Area will be opened and closed under this subsection to the harvest of salmon as follows: (1) the waters within one-quarter mile of the northern shoreline of Anita Bay west of a line from 56º12.33' N. lat, 132º 26.19' W. long., to 56º 12.06' N. lat, 132º 26.19' W. long., and east of a line from 56º 11.96' N. lat, 132º 29.57' W. long., to 56º 11.73' N. lat, 132º 29.36' W. long., will be open from June 15 through July 10;(2) the waters south and west of the waters specified in (1) of the subsection, will be closed as follows: (A) from June 15 through June 25, the waters of the Anita Bay Terminal Harvest Area that are west of 132º 26.19' W. long. will be closed to the harvest of salmon;(B) from June 26 through July 1, the waters of the Anita Bay Terminal Harvest Area that are west of 132º 26.98' W. long. will be closed to the harvest of salmon;(C) from July 2 through July 10, the waters of the Anita Bay Terminal Harvest Area that are west of 132º 28.00' W. long. will be closed to the harvest of salmon;(3) the waters within the Anita Bay Terminal Harvest not described in (1) and (2) of this subsection will be open for the entire fishing season.(c) This management plan distributes the harvest of hatchery-produced king, coho, and chum salmon among the purse seine, troll, and gillnet fisheries when there are excess fish not being harvested by the hatchery operator.(d) The department shall manage the Anita Bay Terminal Harvest Area from May 1 through November 10 to distribute the harvest of excess hatchery-produced king, coho, and chum salmon as follows: (1) salmon may be taken by troll gear at any time;(2) salmon may be taken by seines and drift gillnets only during periods established by emergency order;(3) in establishing emergency order season openings for the purse seine and drift gillnet fisheries, the department shall rotate openings between these gear groups and shall provide for a time ratio for gillnet openings to seine openings of one to one.(e) A drift gillnet operated in the terminal harvest area may not exceed 200 fathoms in length.(f) Salmon may be taken in the terminal harvest area under sport and personal use fishing regulations at any time. A personal use permit issued under 5 AAC 77.682 for the Anita Bay Terminal Harvest Area shall include the following conditions: (1) salmon may be taken for personal use only by drift gillnet;(2) a drift gillnet operated for personal use may not exceed 50 fathoms in length;(3) the annual bag and possession limit for personal use is 25 salmon.(g) Instead of allowing the harvest of hatchery-produced king salmon for cost recovery by the hatchery permit holder, the commissioner may, after consultation with the hatchery operator, by emergency order, open a joint common property and cost recovery assessment fishery for king salmon as specified in AS 16.10.455 to occur only in the waters as described in (a) of this section.Eff. 6/28/97, Register 142; am 7/26/2003, Register 167; am 5/26/2006, Register 178; am 5/31/2009, Register 190; am 7/13/2012, Register 203; am 5/9/2015, Register 214, July 2015; am 6/17/2018, Register 226, July 2018; am 9/19/2019, Register 231, August 2019; am 4/25/2021, Register 238, July 2021; am 10/16/2022, Register 244, January 2023Authority:AS 16.05.060
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