(a) The legislature finds that (1) the salmon fishing industry is among the state’s largest industries and generates hundreds of millions of dollars and thousands of jobs each year; the salmon fishery is vitally important to commercial, subsistence, personal use, and sport fishing interests, and to the state’s developing tourist industry; (2) the state is […]
(a) A person commits the offense of trafficking in intercepted salmon if the person (1) buys, sells, trades, processes, or possesses salmon, or attempts to buy, sell, trade, process, or possess salmon, with reckless disregard that the salmon has been, or will be, obtained by high seas interception; (2) knowingly provides financing, premises, equipment, supplies, […]
(a) A person commits the offense of falsification related to high seas interception of salmon if the person creates, utters, or possesses a written instrument related to salmon, or makes an assertion for the purpose of having a written instrument related to salmon created, uttered, or accepted, with reckless disregard that the salmon was obtained […]
(a) A person commits the offense of assisting a vessel in high seas interception of salmon if, knowing that a vessel is in possession of salmon obtained by high seas interception or that the owner or operator of the vessel intends to engage in the imminent interception of salmon, the person (1) moves persons, cargo, […]
Notwithstanding the provisions of AS 12.55.035(b) and (c), a person convicted of an offense under AS 16.10.760 – 16.10.780 may be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding the greater of (1) $100,000; (2) three times the pecuniary gain realized by the person as a result of the offense; or (3) if the person is […]
In AS 16.10.750 – 16.10.800, (1) “high seas interception,” “interception,” or a similar term means the unauthorized catching, taking, or harvesting of salmon for other than sport, subsistence, or personal use purposes, (A) throughout the migratory range of each species, by a vessel not registered under the laws of this state; or (B) beyond the […]
