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Title 5 . Fish and Game
Chapter 56 . Personal Use Fishery
Section 35. Methods, means, and general provisions - Finfish

5 AAC 56.035. Methods, means, and general provisions - Finfish

(a) Unless otherwise specified in 5 AAC 56.022, 5 AAC 56.023, or 5 AAC 75, or by an emergency order issued under AS 16.05.060 , the provisions of this section apply to finfish sport fishing in the Kenai Peninsula Area.

(b) A king salmon 20 inches or greater in length that is removed from the water shall be retained and comes part of the bag limit of the person originally hooking it. A person may not remove a king salmon from the water before releasing the fish.

(c) Repealed 3/13/2004.

(d) Northern pike may be taken by bow and arrow and spear. The arrow must have a barbed tip and be attached by a line to the bow. For the purposes of this section "bow" means a long bow, recurve bow, compound bow, or crossbow.

(e) When fishing through the ice for northern pike, two hooks may be used per line if both hooks are attached to the same single piece of bait.

History: Eff. 5/6/81, Register 78; am 5/17/81, Register 78; am 3/27/82, Register 81; am 6/20/82, Register 82; am 4/2/83, Register 85; am 4/28/84, Register 90; am 5/31/84, Register 90; am 5/11/85, Register 94; am 4/18/86, Register 98; am 5/2/86, Register 98; am 3/29/87, Register 101; am 6/10/89, Register 110; em am 4/30/91 - 5/30/91, Register 118 [not printed]; am 7/21/91, Register 119; am 4/14/93, Register 126; am 5/22/96, Register 138; am 4/18/97, Register 142; am 2/25/98, Register 145; am 3/21/99, Register 149; am 6/13/99, Register 150; am 6/22/2002, Register 162; am 3/13/2004, Register 169

Authority: AS 16.05.060

AS 16.05.251

Editor's note: As of Register 169, April 2004, the substance of former 5 AAC 56.035(c) was moved to 5 AAC 75.020 in order to apply all finfish species on a statewide basis.


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