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Title 5 . Fish and Game
Chapter 1 . Transportation, Possession and Release of Live Fish; Aquatic Farming
Section 525. Waters closed to subsistence fishing

5 AAC 01.525. Waters closed to subsistence fishing

The following waters are closed to the subsistence taking of salmon:

(1) all waters of Near Island Channel that are bounded by a line from a point on Kodiak Island near Delarov Street at 57ΓΈ 47.62' N. lat., 152ΓΈ 22.78' W. long., to the northernmost point of Holiday Island at 57ΓΈ 47.27' N. lat., 152ΓΈ 22.60' W. long., to a point at the northernmost tip of Near Island at 57ΓΈ 47.30' N. lat., 152ΓΈ 23.16' W. long., to a point at the northernmost end of Uski Island south of the Dog Bay small boat harbor entrance at 57ΓΈ 46.92' N. lat., 152ΓΈ 24.56' W. long., and north to a point at the tip of the breakwater on Kodiak Island at 57ΓΈ 47.08' N. lat., 152ΓΈ 24.60' W. long; in addition, from August 7 through September 30, all waters of Mill Bay and those waters bounded by a line from a point at Spruce Cape at 57ΓΈ 49.33' N. lat., 152ΓΈ 19.48' W. long., to the northernmost point of Woody Island at 57ΓΈ 47.91' N. lat., 152ΓΈ 19.85' W. long., to a point at the northernmost point of Holiday Island at 57ΓΈ 47.27' N. lat., 152ΓΈ 22.60' W. long., and to a point on Kodiak Island near Delarov Street at 57ΓΈ 47.62' N. lat., 152ΓΈ 22.78' W. long.;

(2) all freshwater systems of Little Afognak River and Portage Creek drainage in Discoverer Bay;

(3) repealed 4/13/80;

(4) all waters closed to commercial salmon fishing in the Barabara Cove, Chiniak Bay, Saltery Cove, Pasagshak Bay, Monashka Bay and Anton Larsen Bay as described in 5 AAC 18.350, and all waters closed to commercial salmon fishing within 100 yards of the terminus of Selief Bay Creek and north and west of a line from the tip of Last Point to the tip of River Mouth Point in Afognak Bay;

(5) repealed 4/13/80;

(6) all waters 300 yards seaward of the terminus of Monks Creek;

(7) from August 15 through September 30, all waters 500 yards seaward of the terminus of Little Kitoi Creek;

(8) all freshwater systems of Afognak Island;

(9) all waters of Ouzinkie Harbor north of a line from 57ΓΈ 55.17' N. lat., 152ΓΈ 36.00' W. long., to 57ΓΈ 55.05' N. lat., 152ΓΈ 29.33' W. long.;

(10) from June 1 through October 31, all waters seaward of the terminus of Big Kitoi Creek to a line extending northwesterly from 58ΓΈ 11.42' N. lat., 152ΓΈ 21.95' W. long., to 58ΓΈ 11.59' N. lat., 152ΓΈ 22.03' W. long.;

(11) from August 15 through September 30, all waters of Big Kitoi Bay west of the longitude of 152ΓΈ 21.55' W. long.;

(12) from May 1 through July 5, all waters of Monashka Bay west of a line from Termination Point to Miller Point.

History: In effect before 1985; am 5/11/85, Register 94; am 6/2/88, Register 106; readopt 5/13/93, Register 126; am 6/15/96, Register 138; am 5/29/99, Register 150; am 5/4/2002, Register 162

Authority: AS 16.05.251

AS 16.05.258

Editor's note: At its January 5 - 11, 1993 meeting, the Board of Fisheries readopted 5 AAC 01.525 in its entirety without change, under ch. 1, SSSLA 1992 (the 1992 subsistence law), which repealed and reenacted AS 16.05.258 .


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