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Article 1. Alaska Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission.
Sec. 16.43.010. Purpose and findings of fact. - (a) It is the purpose of this chapter to promote...
Sec. 16.43.020. Alaska Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission. - (a) There is established the Alaska Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission...
Sec. 16.43.030. Term of office; vacancy and removal. - (a) The members of the commission shall be appointed for...
Sec. 16.43.040. Quorum. - Unless there is a vacancy on the commission, two members...
Sec. 16.43.050. Qualifications. - The commission shall consist of two members with a broad...
Sec. 16.43.060. Compensation. - Members of the commission are in the exempt service and...
Sec. 16.43.070. Legal counsel. - The attorney general is the legal counsel for the commission....
Sec. 16.43.080. Employment of personnel. - (a) The commission may employ those persons necessary to carry...
Sec. 16.43.100. Duties and general powers. - (a) To accomplish the purposes set out in AS 16.43.010,...
Sec. 16.43.110. Regulations and hearing procedures. - (a) The commission may adopt regulations, consistent with law, necessary...
Sec. 16.43.120. Application of Administrative Procedure Act. - (a) The administrative adjudication procedures of AS 44.62 (Administrative Procedure...
Article 2. Entry Permit System.
Sec. 16.43.140. Permit required. - (a) A person may not operate gear in the commercial...
Sec. 16.43.150. Terms and conditions of entry permit; annual renewal. - (a) Except as may be otherwise provided under AS 16.43.270(d),...
Sec. 16.43.160. Fees. - (a) Except as specifically provided in this section, the commission...
Sec. 16.43.170. Transfer of entry permits. - (a) Except as provided in AS 16.10.333 - 16.10.338 and...
Sec. 16.43.180. Emergency transfers. - (a) The commission shall adopt regulations providing for the temporary...
Article 3. Initial Issuance of Entry Permits.
Sec. 16.43.200. Administrative areas. - (a) The commission shall establish administrative areas suitable for regulating...
Sec. 16.43.210. Interim-use permit; qualifications. - (a) For each fishery that is not subject to a...
Sec. 16.43.220. Terms and conditions of interim-use permits. - (a) The commission shall adopt regulations specifying the dates and...
Sec. 16.43.225. Moratorium on new entrants into certain fisheries. - (a) Subject to (b) of this section, the commission may...
Sec. 16.43.227. Southeast Alaska Dungeness crab fishery. - (a) The commission may establish a moratorium on new entrants...
Sec. 16.43.228. Southeast Alaska dive fisheries. - (a) [Repealed, § 4 ch 125 SLA 1996.] (b) [Repealed,...
Sec. 16.43.230. Designation of distressed fisheries. - Pending the determination of maximum numbers of entry permits under...
Sec. 16.43.240. Determination of the maximum number of entry permits for initial issue. - (a) Except as provided in AS 16.43.270(a), the maximum number...
Sec. 16.43.250. Standards for initial issue of entry permits. - (a) Following the establishment of the maximum number of units...
Sec. 16.43.260. Application for initial issue of entry permits. - (a) The commission shall accept applications for entry permits only...
Sec. 16.43.270. Initial issuance of entry permits. - (a) The commission shall issue entry permits, for each fishery,...
Article 4. Reduction to Optimum Number of Entry Permits.
Sec. 16.43.290. Optimum number of entry permits. - Following the issuance of entry permits under AS 16.43.270, the...
Sec. 16.43.300. Revisions of optimum number of entry permits. - (a) The commission may increase or decrease the optimum number...
Sec. 16.43.310. Establishment of buy-back funds and permit buy-back assessments. - (a) When the optimum number of entry permits is less...
Sec. 16.43.320. Administration of the buy-back program. - The commission shall adopt regulations providing for the purchase of...
Sec. 16.43.330. Issuance of new entry permits; appropriations related to fleet reduction. - (a) When the number of outstanding entry permits for a...
Article 5. Educational Entry Permits.
Sec. 16.43.340. Educational entry permits. - (a) In addition to entry permits and interim-use permits, the...
Sec. 16.43.351. Term and conditions of educational entry permit. - (a) Educational entry permits may be applied for on an...
Sec. 16.43.361. Disposition of fish. - Fish caught under the authority of an educational entry permit...
Sec. 16.43.371. Accounting of harvest. - The recipient of an educational entry permit shall report to...
Sec. 16.43.381. Adoption of regulations. - (a) Use privileges granted under AS 16.43.340 - 16.43.390 are...
Sec. 16.43.390. Definition of “recipient”. - In AS 16.43.340 - 16.43.390, “recipient” means the entity to...
Article 6. Special Harvest Area Entry Permits.
Sec. 16.43.400. Special harvest area entry permits. - (a) In addition to entry permits, interim-use permits, and educational...
Sec. 16.43.410. Term and conditions of special harvest area entry permits. - (a) Special harvest area entry permits may be applied for...
Sec. 16.43.420. Disposition of fish. - Fish caught under the authority of a special harvest area...
Sec. 16.43.430. Authorized gear. - For the purposes of harvesting salmon or shellfish, a special...
Sec. 16.43.440. Adoption of regulations. - (a) Use privileges granted under AS 16.43.400 - 16.43.440 are...
Article 8. Point System for Commercial Fishing Violations in Salmon Fisheries.
Sec. 16.43.850. Point system. - (a) For the purpose of identifying frequent violators of commercial...
Sec. 16.43.855. Assessment of points. - (a) Notice of each assessment of points shall be given...
Sec. 16.43.860. Suspension. - (a) A permit holder whose commercial salmon fishing privileges for...
Sec. 16.43.870. Notice and appeal. - The commission shall provide notice of determinations of the commission...
Sec. 16.43.880. Required notice to commission. - (a) A court that convicts a person of a violation...
Sec. 16.43.895. Definitions for AS 16.43.850 - 16.43.895. - In AS 16.43.850 - 16.43.895, (1) “commercial fishing law” means...
Article 9. General Provisions.
Sec. 16.43.940. Exempted activities. - This chapter does not apply to activities authorized by a...
Sec. 16.43.945. Commercial fishing privileges exempt from claims of creditors. - Except as provided in AS 16.10.333 - 16.10.338, AS 16.43.170(g),...
Sec. 16.43.950. Applications of regulations of Board of Fisheries. - Nothing in this chapter limits the powers of the Board...
Sec. 16.43.955. Hearings in proximity to Board of Fisheries meetings. - When practicable, a commission hearing that deals with the subject...
Sec. 16.43.960. Commission revocation or suspension of permits. - (a) The commission may revoke, suspend, or transfer all entry...
Sec. 16.43.970. Penalties. - (a) A person who violates a provision of this chapter...
Sec. 16.43.975. Public disclosure of certain documents prohibited. - Documents submitted to the commission containing information relating to an...
Sec. 16.43.980. Report and recommendations. - (a) The commission shall prepare an annual report and notify...
Sec. 16.43.990. Definitions. - In this chapter, (1) “commission” means the Alaska Commercial Fisheries...