Section 5 AAC 33.386 - District 15: Boat Harbor Terminal Harvest Area Management Plan(a) This management plan provides for the harvest of hatchery-produced chum salmon in the Boat Harbor Terminal Harvest Area for the Southeastern Alaska drift gillnet fleet in Section 15-C. The Boat Harbor Terminal Harvest Area includes those waters within two nautical miles of the western shoreline of Lynn Canal from the latitude of Lance Point at 58º 43.95' N. lat. south to the latitude of a point located approximately 2.4 miles north of Point Whidbey at 58º 37.05' N. lat.(b) The department will, in consultation with Douglas Island Pink and Chum, manage the waters of the Boat Harbor Terminal Harvest Area to harvest hatchery-produced chum salmon from the third Sunday in June through September 15, as follows: (1) unless modified by an emergency order, fishing will be open continuously within the Boat Harbor Terminal Harvest Area in the waters of Boat Harbor west of 135º 09.57' W. long.;(2) the remainder of the Boat Harbor Terminal Harvest Area will be managed by emergency order to provide access to hatchery-produced chum salmon after managing for the adequate escapement of wild salmon stocks.(c) Notwithstanding 5 AAC 39.290(a)(2), fishing is allowed in the Boat Harbor Terminal Harvest Area within 500 yards of Boat Harbor Creek, stream number 115-10-10500 in the Catalog of Waters Important for Spawning, Rearing, or Migration of Anadromous Fishes, as revised as of March 2017, seaward of a line between the seaward extremities of the exposed tideland banks of Boat Harbor Creek, or as marked by ADF & G regulatory markers.Eff. 5/31/2009, Register 190; am 6/17/2018,Register 226, July 2018Authority:AS 16.05.060
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