(a) For each fishery that is not subject to a maximum number of entry permits under Alaska Stat. § 16.43.240 and not subject to a moratorium under Alaska Stat. § 16.43.225, the commission shall issue interim-use permits under regulations adopted by the commission to all applicants who can establish their present ability to participate actively in the fishery for which they are making application.
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Terms Used In Alaska Statutes 16.43.210

  • person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association, organization, business trust, or society, as well as a natural person. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
(b) Before the issuance of the maximum number of entry permits for a given fishery, the commission may issue an interim-use permit to an applicant who may later become eligible for an entry permit under Alaska Stat. § 16.43.270.
(c) To the extent that the commissioner of fish and game authorizes it under Alaska Stat. § 16.05.050(a)(9), the commission may grant an interim-use permit to a person to engage in the commercial taking from a fishery on an experimental basis.
(d) The sustained yield management and economic health of the following fisheries is severely impaired as a result, among other factors, of too many units of gear participating in the commercial harvest:

(1) Bristol Bay registration area – drift gillnet fishery;
(2) Cook Inlet registration area – drift gillnet fishery;
(3) Prince William Sound registration area – drift gillnet fishery.
(e)[Repealed, Sec. 69 ch 6 SLA 1984].
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