Section 5 AAC 33.385 - Mist Cove Terminal Harvest Area Salmon Management Plan(a) The Mist Cove Terminal Harvest Area for coho salmon using troll gear is established adjacent to and exclusive of the Mist Cove Special Harvest Area specified in 5 AAC 40.042(a) (8). The Mist Cove Terminal Harvest Area consists of the waters that are outside of the Mist Cove Special Harvest Area and north of the latitude of 56° 28.00' N. lat., west of a line from 56° 28.00' N. lat., 134° 37.00' W. long. to Patterson Point Light to a point on the Baranof Island shore at 56° 32.52' N. lat., 134° 40.18' W. long. and east of the longitude of 134° 41.00' W. long. in Deep Cove.(b) The commissioner shall open and close, by emergency order, fishing seasons and periods to manage the harvest of excess salmon returning to the Mist Cove Terminal Harvest Area.(c) The Mist Cove Special Harvest Area consisting of all waters south and west of a line from 56° 31.70' N. lat., 134° 39.97' W. long. to 56° 31.27' N. lat., 134° 39.85' W. long. is closed to commercial fishing, other than hatchery cost recovery fishing, from 12:01 a.m. July 31 until 11 :59 p.m. September 30, and the waters south of a line from ADF&G regulatory markers located at 56° 31.07' N. lat., 134° 40.20' W. long. to 56° 31.07' N. lat., 134° 40.12' W. long. are closed to commercial salmon fishing, other than hatchery cost recovery fishing.Eff. 7/26/2003, Register 167; am 5/31/2009, Register 190; am 7/1/2015, Register 214, July 2015Authority:AS 16.05.060
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