Notice of adopted changes to Alaska Board of Fisheries regulations; SE Alaska and Yakutat Areas Finfish Fisheries (Part 1)

During its February 23 – March 3, 2015 Southeastern Alaska and Yakutat Areas Finfish Fisheries meeting in Sitka, Alaska, the Alaska Board of Fisheries adopted regulation changes in Title 5 of the Alaska Administrative Code dealing with finfish fisheries in the Southeastern Alaska Area and Yakutat Area. 

The regulation changes were reviewed and approved by the Department of Law, filed by the Lieutenant Governor on April 9, 2015, and will go into effect on May 9, 2015. The new regulation changes will be printed in Register 214, July 2015 of the Alaska Administrative Code. These regulation changes are included in a Part 1 to the project and only include the changes that needed to be expedited.  The remaining changes are expected to be in effect sometime in June and will be contained in Part 2 to the project.

For further information or for a copy of the permanent regulations (a read-only copy is also attached below), please contact: 

Kevin J. Messing
Fishery Regulations Program Coordinator
Alaska Department of Fish and Game
P.O. Box 115526
Juneau, AK 99811-5526

phone: 907.465.6124
fax: 907.465.2604
email: kevin.messing@alaska.gov