00                      CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 110(FSH)                                                                    
01 "An Act prohibiting the use of barbed hooks in certain freshwater areas."                                               
02 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
03    * Section 1. AS 16.05 is amended by adding a new section to read:                                                  
04            Sec. 16.05.422. Prohibition on the use of barbed hooks. (a) A person may                                   
05       not use a barbed hook when participating in a freshwater fishery for a species that may                           
06       not be retained under a regulation adopted by the Board of Fisheries.                                             
07            (b)  The Board of Fisheries may prohibit the use of barbed hooks in a                                        
08       freshwater fishery coincident with a fishery for a species that may not be retained                               
09       under a regulation adopted by the Board of Fisheries.                                                             
10            (c)  In this section,                                                                                        
11                 (1)  "barbed hook" means a hook with at least one subsidiary point                                      
12       facing in a different direction from that of the main point of the hook; "barbed hook"                            
13       does not include a hook from which all barbs have been pinched down, filed off, or                                
14       otherwise removed;                                                                                                
15                 (2)  "freshwater" means all inland water;                                                               

01                 (3)  "inland water" means water separated from salt water at the mouths                                 
02       of creeks and streams and rivers at a line between the extremities of the banks of a                              
03       river at a mean low tide or at a point to be determined and adequately marked by the                              
04       department.