The board meeting cycle generally occurs from October through March. The board considers changes to regulations on a region-based schedule. Each region will be discussed on a two-year cycle. When the regional area is before the board, the following regulations are open for consideration within that region:
Trapping Seasons and Bag Limits – All species
General and Subsistence Hunting Seasons and Bag Limits – All species
(Except antlerless moose hunts as noted below)
Bag Limit for Brown Bears
Areas Closed To Hunting
Closures and Restrictions in State Game Refuges
Management Areas
Controlled Use Areas
Areas Closed To Trapping
Regulations which are specific to an area (e.g., Permits for Access to Round Island) will be taken up when the board is scheduled to consider regulations in that region.
Two statewide regulations will be taken up annually, at the spring meeting: Reauthorization of Antlerless Moose Hunts, and Brown Bear Tag Fees. Proposals for changes to these regulations will be considered each spring.
Other statewide regulations will not be taken up every meeting cycle. Statewide regulations are scheduled to be reviewed on a four-year cycle, distributed between winter meetings scheduled to occur every other year. Refer to the list of statewide regulations and the associated winter meeting cycle to find out when specific statewide regulations will be considered.
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(*PDF).
Southeast – Region I Game Management Units: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Fall 2008
Fall 2010
Fall 2012
Southcentral – Region II Game Management Units:
6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17
All GMUs: Brown Bear Tag Fees and Reauthorization of Antlerless Moose Hunts
Spring 2009
Spring 2011
Spring 2013
Arctic and Western – Region V Game Management Units: 18, 22, 23, 26A
Fall 2009
Fall 2011
Fall 2013
Interior – Region III Game Management Units: 12, 19, 20, 21, 24, 25, 26B, 26C
All GMUs: Brown Bear Tag Fees and Reauthorization of Antlerless Moose Hunts
Spring 2008
Spring 2010
Spring 2012
Statewide Regulations (Chapter 92) Cycle "A" and Cycle "B" addressed in alternating two year periods
Winter
2009
Winter
2011
Winter
2013
** The meeting cycle repeats itself on two-year intervals.
.001 Application of this Chapter
.002 Liability for Violations
.003 Hunter Education and Orientation Requirements
.004 Policy for Off-Road Vehicle Use for Hunting and Transporting Game
.005 Policy for Changing Board Agenda
.010 Harvest Tickets and Reports
.011 Taking of Game by Proxy
.012 Licenses and Tags
.013 Migratory bird hunting guide services
.018 Waterfowl Conservation Tag
.019 Taking of Big Game for Certain Religious Ceremonies
.020 Application of Permit Regulations and Permit Reports
.025 Permit for Exporting a Raw Skin
.027 Permit for Exporting Big Game Trophies
.028 Aviculture Permits
.029 Permit for Possessing Live Game
.030 Possession of wolf hybrid prohibited
.031 Permit for Selling Skins and Trophies
.033 Permit for Sci., Ed., Propagative, or Public Safety Purposes
.034 Permit to Take Game for Cultural Purposes
.039 Permit for Taking Wolves Using Aircraft
.047 Permit for Using Radio Telemetry Equipment
.104 Authorization for Methods and Means Disability Exemptions
.106 Intensive Management of Identified Big Game Prey Populations
.110 Control of predation by wolves
.115 Control of predation by bears
.165 Sealing of Bear Skins and Skulls
.170 Sealing of Marten, Lynx, Beaver, Otter, Wolf, and Wolverine
.171 Sealing of Dall sheep horns
.200 Purchase and Sale of Game
.210 Game as Animal Food or Bait
.220 Salvage of Game Meat, Furs, and Hides
.230 Feeding of Game
.250 Transfer of Muskoxen for Sci. and Ed. Purposes
.450 Description of Game Management Units
.990 Definitions
CYCLE "B": 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020
STATEWIDE REGULATIONS: 5 AAC 92
.009 Obstruction or hindrance of lawful hunting or trapping
.035 Permit for Temporary Commercial Use of Live Game
.037 Permit for Falconry
.040 Permit for Taking of Furbearers with Game Meat
.041 Permit to Take Beavers to Control Damage to Property
.043 Permit for Capturing Wild Furbearers for Fur Farming
.044 Permit for hunting black bear with the use of bait or scent lures
.049 Permits, Permit Procedures, and Permit Conditions
.050 Required Permit Hunt Conditions and Procedures
.051 Discretionary Trapping Permit Conditions & Procedures
.052 Discretionary Permit Hunt Conditions and Procedures
.062 Priority for Subsistence Hunting; Tier II Permits
.068 Permit Conditions for Hunting Black Bear with Dogs
.070 Tier II Subsistence Hunting Permit Point System
.075 Lawful Methods of Taking Game
.080 Unlawful Methods of Taking Game; Exceptions
.085 Unlawful Methods of Taking Big Game; Exceptions
.090 Unlawful Methods of Taking Fur Animals
.095 Unlawful Methods of Taking Furbearers; Exceptions
.100 Unlawful Methods of Hunting Waterfowl, Snipe, Crane
.130 Restriction to Bag Limit
.135 Transfer of Possession
.140 Unlawful Possession or Transportation of Game
.150 Evidence of Sex and Identity
.160 Marked or Tagged Game
.260 Taking Cub Bears & Female Bears with Cubs Prohibited
.400 Emergency Taking of Game
.410 Taking Game in Defense of Life or Property
.420 Taking nuisance wildlife
