05/04/2007 08:30 AM House FISHERIES

HB 188-BOARD OF FISHERIES' AUTHORITY                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                
[Contains discussion of HB 16.]                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                
CHAIR SEATON announced that the  final order of business would be                                                               
SPONSOR SUBSTITUTE  FOR HOUSE BILL  NO. 188, "An Act  relating to                                                               
the  authority  of the  Board  of  Fisheries to  allocate  within                                                               
fisheries; and providing for an effective date."                                                                                
                                                                                                                                
9:52:14 AM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
CHAIR  SEATON said  that the  legal opinions  attached to  HB 188                                                               
state that there  is a need for the legislature  to make specific                                                               
allowances if  there is to be  a fishery in which  a person gains                                                               
money without participating.  That  is the essence of the Grunert                                                               
court  decision:   a  person  may  not  benefit from  an  Alaskan                                                               
fisheries  entry permit  without  participation  in the  fishery.                                                               
The extension  of HB  16 continues  the legislation  which allows                                                               
someone to  be paid  for their participation  in a  coop, without                                                               
being active in the fishery.   These points are the equivalencies                                                               
between these two bills.                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                
[HB 188 was held.]