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Title 5 . Fish and Game
Chapter 38 . Transportation, Possession and Release of Live Fish; Aquatic Farming
Section 360. Cook Inlet Area Octopus Management Plan

5 AAC 38.360. Cook Inlet Area Octopus Management Plan

There is no open season for directed fishing for octopus, but retention as bycatch is allowed as follows:

(1) octopus may be retained as bycatch only, in an amount not to exceed 20 percent, by weight, of the directed catch on board a vessel; and

(2) the annual guideline harvest level of octopus as bycatch may not exceed 35,000 pounds in round weight;

(3) when the guideline harvest level has been reached, the commissioner shall close, by emergency order, the Cook Inlet Area to the retention of octopus.

History: Eff. 7/5/2000, Register 155

Authority: AS 16.05.060

AS 16.05.251


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