| If you operate a vessel deploying hook-and-line gear, other than snap gear, in waters specified at § 679.24(e)(3), and your vessel is... | then you must use this seabird avoidance gear in conjunction with requirements at § 679.24(e)...
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| >26 ft to 55 ft LOA and without masts, poles, or rigging | minimum of one buoy bag line
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| >26 ft to 55 ft LOA and with masts, poles, or rigging | minimum of a single streamer line of a standard specified at § 679.24(e)(4)(ii)
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| >55 ft LOA | minimum of paired streamer lines of a standard specified at § 679.24(e)(4)(iii)
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| If you operate a vessel deploying hook-and-line gear and use snap gear in waters specified at § 679.24(e)(3), and your vessel is... | then you must use this seabird avoidance gear in conjunction with requirements at § 679.24(e)...
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| >26 ft to 55 ft LOA and without masts, poles, or rigging | minimum of one buoy bag line
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| >26 ft to 55 ft LOA and with masts, poles, or rigging | minimum of a single streamer line of a standard specified at § 679.24(e)(4)(iv)
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| >55 ft LOA | minimum of a single streamer line of a standard specified at § 679.24(e)(4)(iv)
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| If you operate any of the following hook-and-line vessels... | then...
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| <32 ft LOA in the State waters of IPHC Area 4E | you are exempt from seabird avoidance measures.
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| in NMFS Reporting Area 649 (Prince William Sound) |
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| in State waters of Cook Inlet |
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| in NMFS Reporting Area 659 (Eastern GOA Regulatory Area, Southeast Inside District), but not including waters in the areas south of a straight line at 56°17.25 N. lat. between Point Harris and Port Armstrong in Chatham Strait, State statistical areas 325431 and 325401, and west of a straight line at 136°21.17 E. long. from Point Wimbledon extending south through the Inian Islands to Point Lavinia |
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| ≤55 ft LOA in IPHC Area 4E but not including waters south of 60°00.00 N. lat. and west of 160°00.00 W. long. | |