Wilber v. State, Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission

OPINION

FABE, Chief Justice.

I. INTRODUCTION

(ilenn Wilber challenges the Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission's (CFEC's) limited entry regulations for the Southeast Alaska Geoduck1 Fishery. Wilber received a nontransferable permit for the fishery but he desires a transferable permit. Wilber maintains that CFEC regulations measuring past participation in the geoduck fishery, and par*462ticularly the agency's combination of two seasons into one "year" for the purposes of assessing hardship, fall outside of the seope of the agency's authority under the Limited Entry Act's initial permit issue…