Fish and Game Code

Alaska · Fish and Game · §§ 16.05.010 to 16.05.950 · 165 sections

Overview

The act governs the management, conservation, and use of a state's fish and wildlife resources, including commercial fishing, sport hunting, and subsistence taking. It establishes a fish and game department headed by a commissioner, along with separate boards for fisheries and game that hold the primary rulemaking authority — adopting regulations, issuing emergency orders, setting permit conditions for nonresidents, restricting fishing gear, and directing wildlife management and fisheries enhancement work. It also creates a dedicated fish and game fund insulated from diversion to unrelated purposes, accepts the terms of federal wildlife aid programs, and equips enforcement officers with powers of arrest, citation, search, and the seizure and forfeiture of equipment used in violations.

Editorial summary generated from the text of this act. It is not part of the statute — read the sections below for the operative language.

Sections covered

AS 16.05.010Commissioner of fish and game
AS 16.05.020Functions of commissioner
AS 16.05.030Status of commissioner. [Repealed, § 40 ch 206 SLA 1975.]
AS 16.05.040Compensation of commissioner
AS 16.05.050Powers and duties of commissioner
AS 16.05.052Nuisance moose
AS 16.05.053Accounting and disposition of receipts. [Repealed, § 92 ch 36 SLA 1990. For current law, see AS 37.05.142 — 37.05.144.]
AS 16.05.055On-board observer program
AS 16.05.060Emergency orders
AS 16.05.065Application extension
AS 16.05.070Regulations as evidence
AS 16.05.080Limitation of power
AS 16.05.090Organization of the department
AS 16.05.092Fisheries rehabilitation, enhancement, and development
AS 16.05.094Duties of section of subsistence hunting and fishing
AS 16.05.100Fish and game fund established
AS 16.05.110Composition of fund
AS 16.05.120Disbursement of funds
AS 16.05.130Diversion of funds prohibited; separate accounts
AS 16.05.140Assent to provisions of federal aid acts
AS 16.05.150Enforcement authority
AS 16.05.160Duty to arrest
AS 16.05.165Form and issuance of citation
AS 16.05.170Power to execute warrant
AS 16.05.180Power to search without warrant
AS 16.05.190Seizure and disposition of equipment
AS 16.05.195Forfeiture of equipment
AS 16.05.200Power to administer oaths
AS 16.05.210Ineligibility for bounties
AS 16.05.220The Board of Fish and Game. [Repealed, § 40 ch 206 SLA 1975.]
AS 16.05.221Boards of fisheries and game
AS 16.05.230Term of office. [Repealed, § 40 ch 206 SLA 1975.]
AS 16.05.240Powers excluded. [Repealed, § 40 ch 206 SLA 1975.]
AS 16.05.241Powers excluded
AS 16.05.250Regulations. [Repealed, § 40 ch 206 SLA 1975.]
AS 16.05.251Regulations of the Board of Fisheries
AS 16.05.253Operation of stationary fishing gear
AS 16.05.255Regulations of the Board of Game; management requirements
AS 16.05.256Nonresident and nonresident alien permits
AS 16.05.257Subsistence hunting regulations. [Repealed, § 12 ch 52 SLA 1986.]
AS 16.05.258Subsistence use and allocation of fish and game
AS 16.05.259No subsistence defense
AS 16.05.260Advisory committees
AS 16.05.261[Renumbered as AS 16.05.259.]
AS 16.05.262Establishment of big game guide concession areas
AS 16.05.270Delegation of authority to commissioner
AS 16.05.280Removal of board members
AS 16.05.290Compensation of board members
AS 16.05.300Board meetings
AS 16.05.305Clerical assistance for boards
AS 16.05.310Special board meetings
AS 16.05.315Joint board meetings
AS 16.05.320Quorum
AS 16.05.330Licenses, tags, and subsistence permits; electronic devices
AS 16.05.331Elk farming. [Renumbered as AS 16.40.050.]
AS 16.05.332Wildlife Violator Compact
AS 16.05.334Application of Wildlife Violator Compact
AS 16.05.335Complimentary licenses
AS 16.05.340License, permit, and tag fees; surcharge; miscellaneous permits to take fish and game
AS 16.05.341Free license for active members of the Alaska National Guard and military reserves
AS 16.05.343Auctions or raffles for certain harvest permits
AS 16.05.345Musk oxen. [Repealed, § 4 ch 57 SLA 1980.]
AS 16.05.346Permit applications
AS 16.05.350Expiration of licenses, permits, and tags
AS 16.05.352Fish and game conservation decal
AS 16.05.360Commissioner charged with license issuance
AS 16.05.370Reports by licensees
AS 16.05.380Commissioner may appoint agents
AS 16.05.390Fees and compensation for issuance of licenses, permits, and tags
AS 16.05.395Sport fishing vessel registration
AS 16.05.400Persons exempt from annual licensing requirements
AS 16.05.403Special licenses and permits
AS 16.05.404Transferability of hunting permits awarded by drawing
AS 16.05.405Taking fish and game by proxy
AS 16.05.407Nonresident hunting big game animals must be accompanied
AS 16.05.408Nonresident alien hunter to be accompanied by guide
AS 16.05.410Revocation of license
AS 16.05.415Determination of residency
AS 16.05.420License, tag, permit, and registration violations
AS 16.05.430Penalties
AS 16.05.440Expiration date for licenses
AS 16.05.450Issuance of licenses; disclosure for child support purposes
AS 16.05.460Commissioner may appoint agents
AS 16.05.470Fee for issuance of licenses
AS 16.05.475Registration of fishing vessels
AS 16.05.480Commercial fishing license; disclosure for child support purposes
AS 16.05.490Vessel license
AS 16.05.495Vessel license exemption
AS 16.05.500Revocation of vessel license. [Repealed, § 19 ch 105 SLA 1977.]
AS 16.05.510Unlicensed vessel unlawful
AS 16.05.520Number plate
AS 16.05.530Renewal of vessel license
AS 16.05.536Persons eligible for gear licenses. [Repealed, § 12 ch 71 SLA 1972.]
AS 16.05.620Otter trawl license. [Repealed, § 2 ch 159 SLA 1968.]
AS 16.05.630Shellfish pot license. [Repealed, § 19 ch 105 SLA 1977.]
AS 16.05.632Identification of shellfish pots or buoys, or both, used in the taking of king crab and requirements for buoys
AS 16.05.660License exemption
AS 16.05.662Fishing derbies
AS 16.05.665Falsification of application for license
AS 16.05.670Fishing gear license in general. [Repealed, § 19 ch 105 SLA 1977.]
AS 16.05.671Transportation and sale of certain fish by an agent of the fisherman who caught the fish
AS 16.05.675Landing permits
AS 16.05.680Unlawful practices
AS 16.05.685Processing on commercial king crab fishing vessels
AS 16.05.690Record of purchases
AS 16.05.700Penalty for violation of AS 16.05.680 and 16.05.690. [Repealed, § 25 ch 127 SLA 1974.]
AS 16.05.710Suspension of commercial license and entry permit
AS 16.05.722Strict liability commercial fishing penalties
AS 16.05.723Misdemeanor commercial fishing penalties
AS 16.05.730Management of wild and enhanced stocks of fish
AS 16.05.733Fish health inspections
AS 16.05.735Management of offshore fisheries
AS 16.05.780Taking of antlerless moose prohibited
AS 16.05.782Taking of brown or grizzly bear near solid waste disposal facility prohibited
AS 16.05.783Same day airborne hunting
AS 16.05.785Effect of failure to remove old markers
AS 16.05.788Examination fee. [Repealed, § 24 ch 32 SLA 1971.]
AS 16.05.789Prohibition on hunting adjacent to highway between Yukon River and Arctic Ocean
AS 16.05.790Obstruction or hindrance of lawful hunting, fishing, trapping, or viewing of fish or game
AS 16.05.791Civil remedies for violation of AS 16.05.790
AS 16.05.792Qualifications of Master Guides. [Repealed, § 2 ch 32 SLA 1968. For current law, see AS 08.54.]
AS 16.05.795License not required. [Repealed, § 2 ch 32 SLA 1968. For current law, see AS 08.54.]
AS 16.05.796Use of title. [Repealed, § 2 ch 32 SLA 1968. For current law, see AS 08.54.]
AS 16.05.797Computer-assisted remote hunting prohibited
AS 16.05.798Master guides. [Repealed, § 2 ch 32 SLA 1968. For current law, see AS 08.54.]
AS 16.05.800Public nuisances
AS 16.05.810Burden of proof
AS 16.05.815Confidential nature of certain reports and records
AS 16.05.820Research by the federal government
AS 16.05.822Transplanting of musk oxen
AS 16.05.825State upland game bird release program
AS 16.05.826Waterfowl conservation stamp program
AS 16.05.827Sale of subsistence salmon roe. [Repealed, § 4 ch 99 SLA 1975.]
AS 16.05.830Wanton waste. [Repealed, § 1 ch 73 SLA 1968.]
AS 16.05.831Waste of salmon
AS 16.05.835Maximum length of salmon seine and certain hair crab vessels
AS 16.05.840Fishway required. [Repealed, E.O. No. 107, § 44 (2003).]
AS 16.05.841Fishway required
AS 16.05.850Hatchery required. [Repealed, E.O. No. 107, § 44 (2003).]
AS 16.05.851Hatchery required
AS 16.05.860Penalty for violating fishway and hatchery requirements. [Repealed, E.O. No. 107, § 44 (2003).]
AS 16.05.861Penalty for violating fishway and hatchery requirements
AS 16.05.865[Renumbered as AS 16.05.822.]
AS 16.05.868[Renumbered as AS 16.05.733.]
AS 16.05.870Protection of fish and game. [Repealed, E.O. No. 107, § 44 (2003).]
AS 16.05.871Protection of fish and game
AS 16.05.880Construction without approval prohibited. [Repealed, E.O. No. 107, § 44 (2003).]
AS 16.05.881Construction without approval prohibited
AS 16.05.890Exemption for emergency situations. [Repealed, E.O. No. 107, § 44 (2003).]
AS 16.05.891Exemption for emergency situations
AS 16.05.895Penalty for causing material damage. [Repealed, E.O. No. 107, § 44 (2003).]
AS 16.05.896Penalty for causing material damage
AS 16.05.900Penalty for violations of AS 16.05.870 — 16.05.895. [Repealed, E.O. No. 107, § 44 (2003).]
AS 16.05.901Penalty for violations of AS 16.05.871 — 16.05.896
AS 16.05.902Personnel and equipment used in exploration work
AS 16.05.903Big game photography contest. [Repealed, § 29 ch 132 SLA 1984.]
AS 16.05.905Activities by aliens prohibited
AS 16.05.910Penalty. [Renumbered as AS 16.05.905(b).]
AS 16.05.920Prohibited conduct generally
AS 16.05.921Venomous reptiles and insects or their eggs; prohibited conduct; permits
AS 16.05.925Penalty for violations
AS 16.05.930Exempted activities
AS 16.05.935Restrictions on cooperation with federal government
AS 16.05.940Definitions
AS 16.05.950Short title of the chapter

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