1. (a) Past participation. The commission will award a maximum of 18 points to an applicant for past participation in the Southeastern Alaska shrimp otter trawl fishery. An applicant who commercially harvested shrimp with otter 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 1996400 pounds or more12Less than 400 pounds81995400 pounds or more9Less than 400 pounds61994400 pounds or more6Less than 400 pounds41993400 pounds or more3Less than 400 pounds2
2. (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.
3. (c) Consistent participation. The commission will award a maximum of 18 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 19965 weeks or more123 weeks to 4 weeks4Less than 3 weeks019954 weeks or more92 weeks to 3 weeks3Less than 2 weeks019944 weeks or more62 weeks to 3 weeks2Less than 2 weeks019935 weeks or more32 weeks to 4 weeks1Less than 2 weeks0
4. (d) Economic Dependence. An applicant will be awarded a maximum of three 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