(a) The commission shall establish administrative areas suitable for regulating and controlling entry into the commercial fisheries. The commission shall make the administrative areas reasonably compatible with the geographic areas for which specific commercial fishing regulations are adopted by the Board of Fisheries.
(b) The commission may modify or change the boundaries of administrative areas when necessary and consistent with the purposes of this chapter.
Structure Alaska Statutes
Chapter 43. Regulation of Entry into Alaska Commercial Fisheries
Article 3. Initial Issuance of Entry Permits.
Sec. 16.43.200. Administrative areas.
Sec. 16.43.210. Interim-use permit; qualifications.
Sec. 16.43.220. Terms and conditions of interim-use permits.
Sec. 16.43.225. Moratorium on new entrants into certain fisheries.
Sec. 16.43.227. Southeast Alaska Dungeness crab fishery.
Sec. 16.43.228. Southeast Alaska dive fisheries.
Sec. 16.43.230. Designation of distressed fisheries.
Sec. 16.43.240. Determination of the maximum number of entry permits for initial issue.
Sec. 16.43.250. Standards for initial issue of entry permits.
Sec. 16.43.260. Application for initial issue of entry permits.