Fish may be taken for subsistence purposes without a subsistence fishing permit, except as otherwise provided in this section.

1. (1) Starting in the 2018 fishing season, during times when the commissioner determines it is necessary for the conservation of king salmon, the commissioner may, by emergency order, require that in the Kuskokwim River drainage, upstream of a line between ADF&G regulatory markers at the Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge Boundary near Aniak, king salmon may be taken only under the authority of a subsistence fishing permit with the following conditions:

   1. (A) annual limit of 10 king salmon;
   2. (B) fishing under the permit may not commence until the subsistence king salmon fishery opens after June 11 as described in 5 AAC 07.365;
   3. (C) the commissioner may, by emergency order, implement one or more of the gear limitations specified in 5 AAC 01.270(n)(1) for fishing under the permit;
   4. (D) permit holders must complete and return permits, including daily records of king salmon harvested, each year by October 31;
   5. (E) once the annual limit is reached, additional king salmon may not be taken except in compliance with all applicable regulations and emergency orders;
   6. (F) only one permit may be issued to a household each year;
2. (2) the provisions of (1) of this section do not apply after December 31, 2022.

(In effect before 1988; readopt 5/15/93, Register 126; am 7/22/2017, Register 223; am 3/27/2022, Register 241)