Section 16.05.835. Maximum length of salmon seine and certain hair crab vessels.

   (a) Unless the Board of Fisheries has provided by regulation for the use of a longer vessel in a salmon seine fishery, a salmon seine vessel may not be longer than 58 feet overall length except vessels that have fished for salmon with seines in waters of the state before January 1, 1962, as 50-foot, official Coast Guard register length vessels.
   (b) A vessel engaged in the Bering Sea hair crab fishery within five miles of the shore may not be longer than 58 feet overall length.
   (c) In this section, "overall length" means the straight line length between the extremities of the vessel excluding anchor rollers.

Notes

Recent Bills that will modify this

HB 134 LENGTH OF SALMON SEINE FISHING VESSELS

Implemented As

5 AAC 39.117
5 AAC 39.975

References

5 AAC 39.975

History

(Sec. 1 ch 252 SLA 1970; am Sec. 1 ch 24 SLA 1990; am Sec. 2 ch 126 SLA 1996; am Sec. 1 ch 145 SLA 2004; am Sec. 26 ch 56 SLA 2005)