Pending the determination of maximum numbers of entry permits under AS 16.43.240 and before the initial issue of entry permits under AS 16.43.270, the commission shall designate as distressed fisheries those for which it estimates that the optimum number of entry permits will be less than the highest number of units of gear fished in that fishery during any one of the four years immediately preceding January 1, 1973.
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.