Meier v. State, Board of Fisheries

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• affirming board’s authority to promulgate 5 AAC 06.370(b) which required all Bristol Bay salmon fishermen to register to a district and imposed a 48-hour waiting period following a change in registration
• upholding a 48-hour waiting period for fishers transferring from one district to another against the argument that the waiting period unfairly favored set net operators over drift net operators
• examining regulation in order to determine whether it is reasonably related to its goal of allocating the salmon harvest between driftnet and setnet fishermen}. 26 . Gilbert v. State, Dep't of Fish & Game, Bd. of Fisheries, 803 P.2d 391, 398 (Alaska 1990
• “The Board’s power to control fishery resource utilization allows it to allocate the salmon harvest between these two competing subgroups of commercial users.”
• Board’s decision allocating sockeye salmon between commercial setnetters and driftnetters in Bristol Bay “reasonable and not arbitrary.”
• Board’s decision to handicap driftnetters for benefit of setnetters in order to maintain pre-1985 harvest percentages between the two groups did not directly advance a conservation or development purpose

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