- (a) Past participation. The commission will award a maximum of 12 points to an applicant for past participation in the Southeastern Alaska shrimp beam trawl fishery. An applicant who commercially harvested shrimp with beam trawl gear during the period 1993 - 1996 will be awarded points for the years in which the applicant participated as a gear operator based on the following: Year Pounds Harvested by an Points Applicant 19962000 pounds or more6Less than 2000 pounds319952000 pounds or more6Less than 2000 pounds319942000 pounds or more4Less than 2000 pounds219932000 pounds or more2Less than 2000 pounds1
- (b) There is a rebuttable presumption that an applicant was a crewmember and not a gear operator for a year if the applicant's commercial harvest was less than 35 percent of the total commercial harvest taken in the fishery and delivered from the vessel during that year. The presumption can be rebutted with a preponderance of evidence showing that the applicant was the sole gear operator on the vessel at the time the shrimp were harvested or that the applicant was a partner with one or more other gear operators on the vessel.
- (c) Consistent participation. The commission will award a maximum of 30 points to an applicant for consistent participation. The points awarded will be based on the number of statistical weeks of the year that the applicant commercially harvested shrimp in the fishery as a gear operator according to the following: Years Statistical Weeks of Commer- Points cial Harvest 19967 weeks or more152 weeks to 6 weeks6Less than 2 weeks0199510 weeks or more152 weeks to 9 weeks6Less than 2 weeks0199410 weeks or more103 weeks to 9 weeks4Less than 3 weeks019937 weeks or more53 weeks to 6 weeks2Less than 3 weeks0
- (d) Economic Dependence. An applicant will be awarded a maximum of four points if the applicant owned as of January 1, 1997, a vessel that the applicant used or intended to use in the fishery.
(Eff. 7/17/98, Register 147)
Authority: AS 16.43.100, AS 16.43.110, AS 16.43.250, AS 16.43.260