Section 5 AAC 38.147 - Dive gear restrictions for Registration Area A(a) Notwithstanding 5 AAC 38.054, a person may use dive gear to fish commercially for other shellfish and miscellaneous shellfish during the 14 days immediately before the scheduled opening date of a commercial red sea urchin fishery except that a person who participates in that fishery may not during that period use dive gear for subsistence, personal use, or sport dive fishing.(b) Notwithstanding 5 AAC 38.054, a person who uses dive gear to fish in a commercial red sea urchin fishery may fish in other commercial shellfish and miscellaneous shellfish dive fisheries within the 14-day period specified in 5 AAC 38.054.(c) In Registration Area A, a person who or vessel that operates dive gear during any time period specified in 5 AAC 38.054(a), except as provided in 5 AAC 38.054(b), may not participate in any commercial, sport, personal use, or subsistence dive fishery for 28 days following the use of dive gear.Eff. 12/8/96, Register 140; am 5/11/2012, Register 202At its January 21 - 31, 1997 meeting, and in accordance with 5 AAC 39.210, the Board of Fisheries approved the commissioner of fish and game's adoption of 5 AAC 38.147, which took effect 12/8/96.