5 AAC 28.105. Description of Eastern Gulf of Alaska Area districts, subdistricts, sections, and sectors

(a) Southeast District: all waters described in 5 AAC 28.100.

(1) Southern Southeast Inside (SSEI) Subdistrict: All waters of Dixon Entrance, Clarence Strait, Ernest Sound, Behm Canal, Bradfield Canal, Sumner Strait, Cordova Bay, Tlevak Strait, Bucarelli Bay, Gulf of Esquibel, Davidson Inlet, Sea Otter Sound, Stikine Strait, Blake Channel, Zimovia Strait, Eastern Passage, and contiguous bays and inlets and that portion of Frederick Sound, bordered by a line from 54ø 43.50' N. lat., 130ø 37.62' W. long. to 54ø 43.40' N. lat., 130ø 37.65' W. long. to 54ø 43.25' N. lat., 130ø 37.73' W. long. to 54ø 43' N. lat., 130ø 37.92' W. long. to 54ø 42.97' N. lat., 130ø 37.95' W. long. to 54ø 42.78' N. lat., 130ø 38.10' W. long. to 54ø 42.37' N. lat., 130ø 38.43' W. long. to 54ø 41.15' N. lat., 130ø 38.97' W. long. to 54ø 39.90' N. lat., 130ø 38.97' W. long. to 54ø 39.23' N. lat., 130ø 39.30' W. long. to 54ø 39.80' N. lat., 130ø 41.58' W. long. to 54ø 40.05' N. lat., 130ø 42.37' W. long. to 54ø 40.70' N. lat., 130ø 44.72' W. long. to 54ø 40.68' N. lat., 130ø 44.98' W. long. to 54ø 40.77' N. lat., 130ø 45.85' W. long. to 54ø 41.10' N. lat., 130ø 48.52' W. long. to 54ø 41.08' N. lat., 130ø 49.28' W. long. to 54ø 41.35' N. lat., 130ø 53.30' W. long. to 54ø 41.43' N. lat., 130ø 53.65' W. long. to 54ø 42.45' N. lat., 130ø 56.30' W. long. to 54ø 42.57' N. lat., 130ø 57.15' W. long. to 54ø 43' N. lat., 130ø 57.68' W. long. to 54ø 43.77' N. lat., 130ø 58.92' W. long. to 54ø 44.20' N. lat., 130ø 59.73' W. long. to 54ø 45.65' N. lat., 131ø 03.10' W. long. to 54ø 46.27' N. lat., 131ø 04.72' W. long. to 54ø 42.18' N. lat., 131ø 13' W. long. to 54ø 40.87' N. lat., 131ø 13.90' W. long. to 54ø 39.15' N. lat., 131ø 16.28' W. long. to 54ø 36.87' N. lat., 131ø 19.37' W. long. to 54ø 29.88' N. lat., 131ø 33.80' W. long. to 54ø 30.53' N. lat., 131ø 38.02' W. long. to 54ø 28.30' N. lat., 131ø 45.33' W. long. to 54ø 26.68' N. lat., 131ø 49.47' W. long. to 54ø 21.85' N. lat., 132ø 02.90' W. long. to 54ø 24.87' N. lat., 132ø 23.65' W. long. to 54ø 24.68' N. lat., 132ø 24.48' W. long. to 54ø 24.68' N. lat., 132ø 24.58' W. long. to 54ø 24.65' N. lat., 132ø 26.85' W. long. to 54ø 25.33' N. lat., 132ø 41.53' W. long. to the Cape Muzon Light to the northernmost tip of Eagle Point on Dall Island and passing successively through the southernmost tip of Point Arboleda, the northernmost tip of Point San Rogue, the southernmost tip of Cape Ulitka, the northernmost tip of Cape Lynch to the southernmost tip of Helm Point, and from a point west of Gish Bay at 55ø 54.53' N. lat., 134ø 12.50' W. long. to the Cape Decision Light and from Point Camden to Salt Point Light on Keku Strait and from Beacon Point to Wood Point;

(2) Northern Southeast Inside (NSEI) Subdistrict: All waters of Frederick Sound, Stephens Passage, Lynn Canal, Icy Strait, Glacier Bay, Chatham Strait, and contiguous bays and inlets bordered by a line from Beacon Point to Wood Point, from Point Camden to Salt Point Light, the Cape Decision Light to a point west of Gish Bay at 55ø 54.53' N. lat., 134ø 12.50' W. long. to the southernmost tip of Helm Point to the westernmost tip of Hazy Island to the Cape Ommaney Light, north of 57ø 30' N. lat. in Peril Strait, from the westernmost tip of Column Point to the northernmost tip of Soapstone Point and from the southernmost tip of Cape Spencer through Yakobi Rock to Yakobi Island;

(3) Icy Bay Subdistrict: All waters of the Southeast District between 140ø W. long., including Yakutat Bay three miles seaward of a line from Ocean Cape at 59ø 30' N. lat.;

(4) Southeast Outside Subdistrict: All remaining waters of the Southeast District:

(A) Southern Southeast Outside (SSEO) Section: all waters of the Southeast Outside Subdistrict south of 56ø N. lat., and east of 137ø W. long.;

(B) Central Southeast Outside (CSEO) Section: all waters of the Southeast Outside Subdistrict between 56ø N. lat. and 57ø 30' N. lat., and east of 137ø W. long.;

(C) Northern Southeast Outside (NSEO) Section: all waters of the Southeast Outside Subdistrict north of 57ø 30' N. lat., and east of 137ø W. long.;

(D) East Yakutat (EYKT) Section: all waters of the Southeast Outside Subdistrict between 137ø and 140ø W. long.

(b) Repealed 4/15/94.

(d) Southern Southeast Outer Coast (SSEOC) Sector: All waters of the Southern Southeast Outside Section and all waters of the Southern Southeast Inside Subdistrict that are south of 56ø N. lat., and west of Prince of Wales Island, or south of 54ø 43' N. lat., and west of 132ø W. long.

(e) Southern Southeast Internal Waters (SSEIW) Sector: All waters of the Southern Southeast Inside Subdistrict not included in the Southern Southeast Outer Coast Sector.

History: Eff. 7/30/89, Register 111; am 4/15/94, Register 130; am 4/4/97, Register 142; am 6/15/97, Register 142; am 5/31/98, Register 146; am 6/3/2000, Register 154; am 6/11/2000, Register 154; am 6/14/2000, Register 154; am 7/14/2000, Register 155; am 3/11/2001, Register 157

Authority: AS 16.05.251

AS 16.10.190

Editor's note: As of Register 142, July 1997, the substance of 5 AAC 28.105(c) appears in 5 AAC 28.205.

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