Tongass Sport Fishing Ass'n v. State

OPINION

RABINOWITZ, Justice.

This appeal concerns a regulation promulgated by the Alaska Board of Fisheries (the Board) allocating the number of chinook (king) salmon that may be harvested by commercial seiners and gillnetters, commercial trollers, and sport fishers in southeast Alaska. This appeal presents three questions. First, does the allocative regulation promulgated by the Board violate the policies expressed in Article VIII of the Alaska Constitution? Second, in promulgating this regulation, did the Board consider the relevant criteria and take a “hard look” at the salient problems…