Pasternak v. State, Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission

OPINION

FABE, Chief Justice.

I. INTRODUCTION

The Alaska Limited Entry Act created the Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission (CFEC) to regulate entry into commercial fisheries. 1 In 1985 the Commission limited participation in the Northern Southeast Inside sablefish longline fishery, a non-distressed fishery, to a maximum of seventy-three permits. 2 CFEC distributes the seventy-three permits on a points-based application system. 3 Walter Pasternak challenges CFEC's determination that seventy-three is the maximum and optimum number of permits for this fishery and contends that CFEC erred in…