AK HB18

Amends AS 16.05.251 to require the Board of Fisheries to prioritize restrictions on all other fisheries before restricting personal use fisheries when harvest limits are needed to achieve management goals.

Defines "management goal" as the escapement or estimated population size of an exploited stock that provides the greatest potential for sustained yield, as established by the board.

Exception allows restrictions on personal use fisheries when AS 16.05.258 conditions are met.

Introduced January 7, 2013 by Representative Stoltze in the Twenty-Eighth Legislature, First Session.