- (a) This management plan provides for the harvest of hatchery-produced chum salmon in the Boat Harbor Terminal Harvest Area for the Southeastern Alaska drift gillnet fleet in Section 15-C. The Boat Harbor Terminal Harvest Area includes those waters within two nautical miles of the western shoreline of Lynn Canal from the latitude of Lance Point at 58° 43.95' N. lat. south to the latitude of a point located approximately 2.4 miles north of Point Whidbey at 58° 37.05' N. lat.
(b) The department will, in consultation with Douglas Island Pink and Chum, manage the waters of the Boat Harbor Terminal Harvest Area to harvest hatchery-produced chum salmon from the third Sunday in June through September 15, as follows:
- (1) unless modified by an emergency order, fishing will be open continuously within the Boat Harbor Terminal Harvest Area in the waters of Boat Harbor west of 135° 09.57' W. long.;
- (2) the remainder of the Boat Harbor Terminal Harvest Area will be managed by emergency order to provide access to hatchery-produced chum salmon after managing for the adequate escapement of wild salmon stocks.
- (c) Notwithtanding 5 AAC 39.290(a)(2), fishing is allowed in the Boat Harbor Terminal Harvest Area within 500 yards of Boat Harbor Creek, stream number 115-10-10500 in the Catalog of Waters Important for Spawning, Rearing, or Migration of Anadromous Fishes, as revised as of March 2017, seaward of a line between the seaward extremities of the exposed tideland banks of Boat Harbor Creek, or as marked by ADF&G regulatory markers.
(Eff. 5/31/2009, Register 190; am 6/17/2018, Register 226)
Authority: AS 16.05.060, AS 16.05.251