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HOUSE BILL NO. 180
IN THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA
THIRTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE - FIRST SESSION
BY REPRESENTATIVES CRONK, McCormick, Stapp, Foster, Tomaszewski
Introduced: 4/26/23
Referred: House Special Committee on Fisheries, Resources
A BILL
FOR AN ACT ENTITLED
1 "An Act temporarily closing the commercial salmon fishery in a portion of the Alaska
2 Peninsula and Aleutian Islands; and providing for an effective date."
3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:
4 * Section 1. The uncodified law of the State of Alaska is amended by adding a new section
5 to read:
6 TEMPORARY CLOSURE OF ALASKA PENINSULA MANAGEMENT AREA M
7 TO COMMERCIAL SALMON FISHING. Notwithstanding the authority usually delegated
8 by the legislature to the Board of Fisheries under AS 16.05.251, the area of the Alaska
9 Peninsula, Aleutian Islands, and Atka-Amlia Islands Areas administered by the Board of
10 Fisheries under AS 16.05.251 on December 31, 2022, and identified by the Department of
11 Fish and Game as of January 1, 2023, as Alaska Peninsula Management Area M is closed to
12 commercial salmon fishing from 12:01 a.m. on June 10, 2023, through 11:59 p.m. on June 30,
13 2023.
14 * Sec. 2. This Act takes effect immediately under AS 01.10.070(c).
HB0180a -1- HB 180
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