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Title 5 . Fish and Game
Chapter 35 . Transportation, Possession and Release of Live Fish; Aquatic Farming
Section 50. Lawful gear for Tanner crab

5 AAC 35.050. Lawful gear for Tanner crab

Unless otherwise specified in this chapter,

(1) Tanner crab may be taken only with Tanner crab pots and ring nets; Tanner crab taken by other means must be returned to the water without further harm;

(2) a Tanner crab pot is a pot that is no more than 10 feet long by 10 feet wide by 42 inches high with rigid tunnel eye openings that individually are less than five inches (13 cm) in one dimension with tunnel eye opening perimeters that individually are more than 36 inches (91.4 cm) or a pot that is no more than 10 feet long by 10 feet wide by 42 inches high and that tapers inward from its base to a top that consists of one horizontal opening of any size;

(3) Tanner crab pots with tunnel eye openings on the vertical plane of the pot that are used to take Tanner crab during the closed king crab season in any area may not have tunnel eye openings more than five inches (13 cm) in height.

History: In effect before 1982; am 7/25/82, Register 83; am 6/30/83, Register 86; am 7/14/85, Register 95; am 7/12/86, Register 99; am 7/23/88, Register 107; am 9/19/90, Register 115; am 1/11/92, Register 121; em am 12/29/92 - 4/27/93, Register 125; am 7/23/94, Register 131; em am 10/20/95 - 2/16/96, Register 136; am 9/29/96, Register 139; am 3/11/2001, Register 157; am 8/24/2002, Register 163

Authority: AS 16.05.251

Editor's note: As of Register 139, October 1996, the substance of former 5 AAC 35.050(d) appears in 5 AAC 35.031, the substance of former 5 AAC 35.050(b) appears in 5 AAC 35.051, the substance of former 5 AAC 35.050(c) appears in 5 AAC 35.052, and the substance of former 5 AAC 35.050(i) and (j) appears in 5 AAC 35.053.


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