Code of Federal Regulations Title 50. Wildlife and Fisheries 50 CFR Pt. 679, Tbl. 20 TABLE 20 TO PART 679—SEABIRD AVOIDANCE GEAR REQUIREMENTS FOR VESSELS, BASED ON AREA, GEAR, AND VESSEL TYPE

If you operate a vessel deploying hook-and-line gear, other than snap gear, in waters specified at § 679.24(e)(3), and your vessel is...

then you must use this seabird avoidance gear in conjunction with requirements at § 679.24(e)...

>26 ft to 55 ft LOA and without masts, poles, or rigging

minimum of one buoy bag line

>26 ft to 55 ft LOA and with masts, poles, or rigging

minimum of a single streamer line of a standard specified at § 679.24(e)(4)(ii)

>55 ft LOA

minimum of paired streamer lines of a standard specified at § 679.24(e)(4)(iii)

If you operate a vessel deploying hook-and-line gear and use snap gear in waters specified at § 679.24(e)(3), and your vessel is...

then you must use this seabird avoidance gear in conjunction with requirements at § 679.24(e)...

>26 ft to 55 ft LOA and without masts, poles, or rigging

minimum of one buoy bag line

>26 ft to 55 ft LOA and with masts, poles, or rigging

minimum of a single streamer line of a standard specified at § 679.24(e)(4)(iv)

>55 ft LOA

minimum of a single streamer line of a standard specified at § 679.24(e)(4)(iv)

If you operate any of the following hook-and-line vessels...

then...

< 32 ft LOA in the State waters of IPHC Area 4E

you are exempt from seabird avoidance measures.

in NMFS Reporting Area 649 (Prince William Sound)

in State waters of Cook Inlet

in NMFS Reporting Area 659 (Eastern GOA Regulatory Area, Southeast Inside District), but not including waters in the areas south of a straight line at 56°17.25 N. lat. between Point Harris and Port Armstrong in Chatham Strait, State statistical areas 325431 and 325401, and west of a straight line at 136°21.17 E. long. from Point Wimbledon extending south through the Inian Islands to Point Lavinia

≤ 55 ft LOA in IPHC Area 4E but not including waters south of 60°00.00 N. lat. and west of 160°00.00 W. long.