1. (a) An applicant for an educational entry permit may apply for a permit only in a fishery that occurs in an administrative area, as described in 20 AAC 05.230, that borders upon the public school district in which the applicant is located.
2. (b) An applicant may apply for only one permit in a fishery.

3. (c) The commission will not issue an educational entry permit if

   1. (1) it determines that the issuance would interfere with the conservation and sustained yield management of the fishery resource and the economic health and stability of the fishery;
   2. (2) the issuance would cause the total number of permits issued in that fishery to increase by more than one half of one percent; or
   3. (3) the commission has already issued five educational entry permits in that fishery.
4. (d) The commission will not issue an educational entry permit in the following fisheries: Yakutat set gillnet fisheryPrince William Sound set gillnet fisheryCook Inlet purse seine fisheryKodiak beach seine fisheryKodiak set gillnet fisheryChignik purse seine fisheryAlaska Peninsula Aleutian Islandspurse seine fisherydrift gillnet fisheryset gillnet fisheryUpper Yukongillnet fisheryfish wheel fisheryNorton Sound gillnet fisheryRoe HerringSoutheastern Alaska purse seine fisheryPrince William Soundpurse seine fisherygillnet fisheryKodiakpurse seine fisherygillnet fisheryCombined roe herring and herringCook Inlet purse seine fisherySoutheastern Alaska gillnet fisheryNelson Island gillnet fisheryLower Yukon (Cape Romanzof) gillnet fisheryNorton Sound beach seine fisheryNunivak Island gillnet fisheryCrabSoutheastern Alaskared and blue king crab pot fisherybrown king crab pot fisheryTanner crab pot fisherySablefishNorthern Southeast Insidesablefish longline fisherySouthern Southeast Insidesablefish longline fisherysablefish pot fisheryHerring Spawn on Kelp Pound Prince William Sound herring spawn on kelp pound fishery

5. (e) If more than one application is received for a single available educational entry permit, the commission will select the successful applicant based upon the quality of the proposed program as described in the application submitted. In making the selection, the commission will consider at least the following factors:

   1. (1) the cost of the program relative to the number of students who will benefit from it;
   2. (2) the extent to which classroom instruction supports fishery experience;
   3. (3) the burden, as indicated by program design, that the program will have on the fishery resource; and
   4. (4) the applicant's and benefiting students' physical, cultural, geographic, and economic ties to the fishery.

(Eff. 3/8/91, Register 117)

Authority: AS 16.43.340, AS 16.43.351, AS 16.43.381