(a) The commission shall establish administrative areas suitable for regulating and controlling entry into the commercial fisheries. The commission shall make the administrative areas reasonably compatible with the geographic areas for which specific commercial fishing regulations are adopted by the Board of Fisheries. (b) The commission may modify or change the boundaries of administrative areas […]
(a) For each fishery that is not subject to a maximum number of entry permits under AS 16.43.240 and not subject to a moratorium under AS 16.43.225, the commission shall issue interim-use permits under regulations adopted by the commission to all applicants who can establish their present ability to participate actively in the fishery for […]
(a) The commission shall adopt regulations specifying the dates and places of application, the procedures to be followed in renewal of the interim-use permit including the time, place of its renewal, and for any other purpose incident to the administration of interim-use permits for that fishery. An interim-use permit shall expire upon the final determination […]
(a) Subject to (b) of this section, the commission may establish a moratorium on new entrants into a fishery (1) that has experienced recent increases in fishing effort that are beyond a low, sporadic level of effort; (2) that has achieved a level of harvest that may be approaching or exceeding the maximum sustainable level […]
(a) The commission may establish a moratorium on new entrants into the southeast Alaska Dungeness crab fishery for a continuous period of up to four years without complying with AS 16.43.225(a) – (c). While the moratorium is in effect, the commission shall (1) conduct the investigation required under AS 16.43.225(d); (2) establish by regulation the […]
(a) [Repealed, § 4 ch 125 SLA 1996.] (b) [Repealed, § 4 ch 125 SLA 1996.] (c) [Repealed, § 4 ch 125 SLA 1996.] (d) [Repealed, § 4 ch 125 SLA 1996.] (e) [Repealed, § 22 ch 9 SLA 2014.] (f) Notwithstanding AS 16.43.225, for the purposes of this chapter, (1) an interim-use permit issued […]
Pending the determination of maximum numbers of entry permits under AS 16.43.240 and before the initial issue of entry permits under AS 16.43.270, the commission shall designate as distressed fisheries those for which it estimates that the optimum number of entry permits will be less than the highest number of units of gear fished in […]
(a) Except as provided in AS 16.43.270(a), the maximum number of entry permits for a distressed fishery designated under AS 16.43.230 shall be the highest number of units of gear fished in that fishery during any one of the four years immediately preceding January 1, 1973. (b) When the commission finds that a fishery, not […]
(a) Following the establishment of the maximum number of units of gear for a particular fishery under AS 16.43.240, the commission shall adopt regulations establishing qualifications for ranking applicants for entry permits according to the degree of hardship that they would suffer by exclusion from the fishery. The regulations shall define priority classifications of similarly […]
(a) The commission shall accept applications for entry permits only from applicants who have harvested fishery resources commercially while participating in the fishery as holders of gear licenses issued under former AS 16.05.536 – 16.05.670 or interim-use permits under AS 16.43.210(a) or 16.43.225 before the qualification date established in (d), (e), or (f) of this […]
(a) The commission shall issue entry permits, for each fishery, first to all qualified applicants in the priority classifications designated under AS 16.43.250(b) and then to qualified applicants in order of descending priority classification, until the number of entry permits issued equals the maximum number of entry permits established under AS 16.43.230 and 16.43.240 for […]
