Section 5 AAC 27.132 - Seine specifications and operations for Southeastern Alaska Area(a) A herring purse seine may not be more than 200 fathoms in length.(b) A herring purse seine may not be more than 1,700 meshes in depth, except that for Section 12-A, the commissioner may, by emergency order, open a purse seine herring fishery during which a herring purse seine may not be more than 2,125 meshes in depth.In effect before 1982; am 7/25/82, Register 83; am 4/28/84, Register 90; am 5/31/98, Register 146; am 4/2/2006, Register 177