Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission v. Apokedak

OPINION

MATTHEWS, Justice.

AS 16.43.260(a) provides that the Alaska Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission *487“shall accept applications for entry permits only from applicants who have harvested fishery resources commercially while participating in the fishery as holders of gear licenses issued under AS 16.05.536-16.05.-670 ... before the qualification date established in (d) or (e) of this section.” In our first opinion in this case, Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission v. Apokedak, 606 P.2d 1255, 1264, 1268 (Alaska 1980), we held that the requirement that applicants be holders of gear licenses…