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(a) The trailing of gillnet web is prohibited at any time or place where fishing is not permitted.
(b) Set gillnets shall be removed from the water during any closed period.
(c) Gillnet web must contain at least 30 filaments, except that
(1) in the Southeast Alaska, Yakutat, Prince William Sound, and Cook Inlet Areas, gillnet web must meet one of the following requirements:
(A) the web must contain at least 30 filaments and all filaments must be of equal diameter, or
(B) the web must contain at least six filaments, each of which must be at least 0.20 millimeter in diameter.
(2) the requirements contained in (1)(A) and (1)(B) of this subsection apply in the Kodiak, Chignik, Aleutian Islands, Alaska Peninsula, Bristol Bay, Kuskokwim, Yukon-Northern, Norton Sound-Port Clarence, and Kotzebue Areas.
(d) The float line and floats of gillnets must be floating on the surface of the water while the net is fishing, unless natural conditions cause the net to temporarily sink. The restriction of this subsection does not apply in the Kotzebue Area (5 AAC 03.100) , the Norton Sound-Port Clarence Area (5 AAC 04.100) , the Yukon-Northern Area (5 AAC 05.100) , the Kuskokwim Area (5 AAC 07.100) , and the Kodiak Area (5 AAC 18.100) .
History: In effect before 1983; am 4/16/83, Register 86; am 3/29/87, Register 101; am 4/2/88, Register 105; am 7/16/92, Register 123
Authority: AS 16.05.251
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