In these regulations, the following terms shall have the meaning indicated unless the context clearly requires a different meaning:

1. (1) repealed 3/30/85;
2. (2) "adjacent" means touching or lying in close proximity, as opposed to "contiguous" which requires a common boundary;
3. (3) "boundary lines" means lines having a course and distance that enclose one tract;
4. (4) repealed 3/30/85;
5. (5) repealed 3/30/85;
6. (6) "commercial fishing" means the taking, fishing for, or possession of fish, with the intent of disposing of them for profit, or by sale, barter, or in commercial channels;
7. (7) "commercial fishing season" means the locally recognized commercial fishing season opened by field announcement by the Alaska Board of Fish and Game;
8. (8) "commissioner" means the Commissioner of the Department of Natural Resources, State of Alaska;
9. (9) "department" means the Department of Natural Resources, State of Alaska;
10. (10) "director" means the Director of the Division of Lands;
11. (11) "division" means the Division of Lands within the Department of Natural Resources;
12. (12) "endline" means that boundary line of any lease tract that is parallel or nearly so with the shoreline;
13. (13) repealed 3/30/85;
14. (14) repealed 3/30/85;
15. (15) "lease" means a surface lease for shore fisheries development issued or held pursuant to these regulations;
16. (16) repealed 3/30/85;
17. (17) repealed 3/30/85;
18. (18) repealed 3/30/85;
19. (19) "monument" means a natural, physical, artificial, or record monument, as customarily used to appropriately define or mark an area;
20. (20) "neighbor" means an adjacent commercial fisherman who is to be designated as right or left side, or seaward or shoreward neighbor;
21. (21) "offshore" means those submerged lands lying seaward from the line of mean low tide;
22. (22) repealed 3/30/85;
23. (23) repealed 3/30/85;
24. (24) repealed 3/30/85;
25. (25) repealed 3/30/85;
26. (26) repealed 3/30/85;
27. (27) repealed 3/30/85;
28. (28) "site" means setnet site, individual setnet location, setnet fishing site, and set gillnet site;
29. (29) repealed 3/30/85;
30. (30) "tidelands" are those lands that are periodically covered by tidal waters between the elevation of mean high and mean low tides;
31. (31) "tract" means a parcel of tidelands leased under this chapter and may include one, two, or three set gillnet sites;
32. (32) repealed 3/30/85;
33. (33) repealed 3/30/85;
34. (34) repealed 3/30/85;
35. (35) "party at fault" means the lessee or lessees who, following a dispute over tract or site boundaries or locations, is determined by the director to be in error;
36. (36) "permanent" means not capable of being readily dismantled or removed from a site or tract within the 24 hours after notification, without destroying the object dismantled or removed or damaging the site or tract, and does not include setnet anchors;
37. (37) "shore fishery diagram" means a graphic depiction of an applicant's or lessee's site which indicates the relationship of the site to local landmarks and adjacent or neighboring sites.

(Eff. 4/18/64, Register 16; am 3/30/85, Register 93)

Authority: AS 38.05.020, AS 38.05.082, AS 38.05.965