5 Alaska Admin. Code § 41.610

Current through August 30, 2024

Section 5 AAC 41.610 - Permit Classifications

(a) The commissioner may issue an aquatic resource permit for scientific and educational activities:

(1) to authorize collection, transport, or possession of aquatic organism; to qualify an applicant must be involved in scientific or educational research activities;

(2) to authorize propagation of aquatic organism; to qualify an applicant must be involved in scientific or educational research activities; a permit issued under this paragraph include specifications as follows:

(A) for classroom incubation projects, to authorize the permit holder to collect up to 500 eggs or one spawning pair, transport, hold alive, and release aquatic organisms.

(B) for vocational, technical, and post-secondary school programs, to authorize the permit holder to collect eggs, transport, hold alive, and release aquatic organisms as follows:

(i) salmonids: may collect up to 50,000 eggs or equivalent in spawning pairs;

(ii) invertebrates and aquatic plants: may collect the number necessary to achieve educational objectives;

(C) for propagative research, to authorize accredited institutions of higher learning, or federal, state, local, tribal entities, and persons or entities cooperating therewith to collect, propagate, transport, and release aquatic organisms for purposes of propagative research as follows:

(i) finfish: may collect the number necessary to achieve the objectives of the research, not to exceed the number of eggs expected to result in 5,000 or fewer adults;

(ii) invertebrates and aquatic plants: may collect the number necessary to achieve the objectives of the research.

(b) The department may require inspection and approval of activities in subsection (a) by the appropriate fish pathology section of the department's division of commercial fisheries, or by a person designated by the fish pathology section, genetic sampling, and additional conditions for fisheries management and conservation needs, including review by a regional planning team.

(4) [(1)] any resultant aquatic organisms from a project are considered common property and may not be claimed for cost recovery or any other reason.

5 AAC 41.610

Eff. 1/10/2018,Register 225, April 2018

Authority:AS 16.05.020

AS 16.05.251

AS 16.05.340