00                      CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 409(FSH)                                                                    
01 "An Act relating to the maximum length of salmon seine vessels; and providing for an                                    
02 effective date."                                                                                                        
03 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
04    * Section 1.  AS 16.05.835(a) is amended to read:                                                                  
05            (a)  Unless the Board of Fisheries has provided by regulation for the use of                             
06       a longer vessel in a salmon seine fishery, a [A] salmon seine vessel may not be                               
07       longer than 58 feet overall length except vessels that have fished for salmon with                                
08       seines in waters of the state before January 1, 1962, as 50-foot, official Coast Guard                            
09       register length vessels.                                                                                          
10    * Sec. 2.  This Act takes effect January 1, 2005.