20 Alaska Admin. Code § 05.220
Code | |
01 | purse seine (hand or power) |
1 (A - D) | herring gillnet and seine, combined fishery, with vessel restrictions++ |
02 | beach seine |
03 | drift gillnet |
04 | set gillnet* |
05 | hand troll |
06 | longline (registered vessel length under 60 feet) |
07 | otter trawl |
7 (A - D) | trawl with vessel restrictions++ |
7 (F -1) | trawl gear for miscellaneous saltwater finfish fishery+++ |
08 | fish wheel |
9 | pot gear (Area A king and Tanner crab fisheries) |
09 | pot gear (registered vessel length under 60 feet) |
9 (A - D) | pot gear with permit restrictions++ |
9E | pot gear ("registered vessel length under 35 feet) ***(limited to the "M" - Miscellaneous fishery resource code) |
10 | ring nets |
11 | diving gear |
12 | hand picking** |
13 | dipnet |
15 | power troll |
17 | beam trawl |
18 | shovel |
21 | pound*** |
2 (A - B) | scallop dredge (A is for vessels with an overall length of more than 80 feet, and B is for vessels with an overall length of 80 feet or less) |
23 | mechanical or hydraulic digger |
25 | dinglebar troll gear |
26 | power-driven mechanical jigging machine |
28 | fyke net |
31 | herring gillnet and purse seine, combined permit |
34 | herring gillnet |
37 | pair trawl |
4 (A - D) | net gear with vessel restrictions (includes trawl or any other gear authorized by the Board of Fisheries that catches fish with nets and, as specified under 5 AAC 28.230, pot gear)++ |
5 (A - D) | fixed gear with permit restrictions (includes longline or any other gear authorized by the Board of Fisheries that catches fish with fishing hooks and, as specified under 5 AAC 28.230, pot gear)++ |
50 | longline and pot gear (registered vessel length under 60 feet) |
51 | llongline and pot gear (registered vessel length 60 feet or over) |
61 | longline (required for vessels with registered vessel length 60 feet or over, but may be used aboard smaller vessels)++++ |
6 (A - B) | longline gear for miscellaneous saltwater finfish fishery (A is for vessels with an overall length of 90 feet or over and B is for vessels with an overall length of at least 60 feet but less than 90 feet) |
77 | institutional (all legal gear types used in a special harvest area or by the holder of an educational entry permit) |
80 | Fishing derby (as authorized under AS 16.05.662) |
91 | pot gear (required for vessels with registered vessel length 60 feet or over, but may be used aboard smaller vessels) |
97 | aquatic farming (required to harvest, from an aquatic farm under 5 AAC 41.200 - 5 AAC 41.400, wild stock of a species identified for culture in the operation permit) |
99 | other |
*A set gillnet permit in the Yukon Area allows the use of a dip net under 5 AAC 05.362.
** A hand picking permit in the Prince William Sound herring wild spawn-on-kelp fishery includes and authorizes use of diving gear.
*** A herring pound permit allows the incidental use of other gear when operated in compliance with a pound permit issued by the commissioner of fish and game.
++ A permit issued with this gear code restricts the fishing capacity that a permit holder can use, as set out in 20 AAC 05.764, 20 AAC 05.779, 20 AAC 05.823, or 20 AAC 05.831.
+++ For miscellaneous saltwater finfish trawl permits, F-I corresponds to the overall length of the vessel indicated on the permit as follows: F is for an overall length less than 60 feet; G is for an overall length at least 60 feet but less than 90 feet; H is for an overall length 90 feet to 125 feet; and 1 is for an overall length more than 125 feet. A permit with G, H, or 1 may be used on a vessel that is smaller than the vessel that corresponds with the permit.
++++ A permit with this gear code issued for the Northern Southeast Inside sablefish longline fishery or Southern Southeast Inside sablefish longline fishery includes pot gear.
20 AAC 05.220
Authority:AS 16.43.100
AS 16.43.110
AS 16.43.140
AS 16.43.990