Copper Opening Dates Confusion

[gr8fl]

Subsistence by regulation June 1st. Above the bridge only.

Personal Use by Emergency Order only and no sooner than June 7. Below the bridge.

You can only fish one of the permit types.

[Chitina]

No earlier than June 7 and no later than June 15. F/G will decide opening date based on abundance. That is #'s at Miles Lake.

5 AAC 77.591. Copper River Personal Use Dip Net Salmon Fishery Management Plan
b. ....The commissioner may close, by an emergency order effective June 7, the Chitina Subdistrict personal use salmon fishing season and shall reopen the season, by emergency order, on or before June 15 depending on the run strength and timing of the sockeye salmon run.

and the link for 5 AAC 77.591. Copper River Personal Use Dip Net Salmon Fishery Management Plan
http://www.legis.state.ak.us/basis/folioproxy.asp?url=http://wwwjnu01.legis.state.ak.us/cgi-bin/folioisa.dll/aac/query=[JUMP:%275+aac+77!2E591%27]/doc/{@1}?firsthit