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Title 5 . Fish and Game
Chapter 77 . Personal Use Fishery
Section 516. Personal use Tanner crab fishery

5 AAC 77.516. Personal use Tanner crab fishery

In the personal use taking of Tanner crab,

(1) male Tanner crab may be taken only from July 15 through March 15, except that

(A) in Kachemak Bay east of a line from Anchor Point to Point Pogibshi male Tanner crab may only be taken from July 15 through December 31, and from January 15 or the beginning of the commercial Tanner crab season, whichever is later, through March 15; and

(B) when the personal use fishery in the Southern District is closed to the taking of Tanner crab, the personal use fishery in the Kamishak, Barren Islands, Eastern, and Outer Districts shall also remain closed as specified under 5 AAC 35.410(c) ;

(2) the daily bag and possession limit is five male Tanner crab;

(3) repealed 6/1/90;

(4) only male Tanner crab five and one-half inches or greater in width of shell may be taken or possessed;

(5) a person may not mutilate or otherwise disfigure a Tanner crab in any manner that would prevent the determination of the minimum size and sex restrictions in this section while the crab is uncooked and in possession aboard a vessel; only whole crab, cooked or uncooked, may be taken off a vessel.

History: Eff. 6/20/82, Register 82; am 6/30/83, Register 86; am 5/11/85, Register 94; am 7/1/86, Register 99; am 7/23/88, Register 107; am 6/1/90, Register 114; am 6/24/93, Register 126; am 2/24/96, Register 137; am 8/24/2002, Register 163; am 8/14/2005, Register 175

Authority: AS 16.05.251


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