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LIVE GAME AND HYBRIDS  (Amended 3/10/22)

BANS possession, import, release and export of live game, including hybrids and feral domestic animals, as pets.

• PERMIT (Possession Permit) issued to possess, import, release or export live game for other purposes
  
• EXEMPTION: Clean list species below
  
• GRANDFATHERING: Pet chimpanzees owned 1/31/2010 for which a permit was received by 7/1/2010
  

• CLEAN LIST (2022): (See Legal Pets).
  
  

CONSIDERED FERAL (GAME):

• Deleterious exotic wildlife and nonindigenous gallinaceous bird when not under direct control, including in a cage or on leash
  
  • commissioner may capture, destroy, or dispose of them
    

• Lawfully owned musk oxen, bison, or reindeer OR an elk under game mammal farming license not confined or under positive control for more than 48 hours OR which do have brand, ear tag or owner’s mark
  
  • excludes free-ranging animal under a state or federal grazing lease
    

REQUIREMENTS:             

• PERMIT needed from USFWS for endangered species
  
• Allows release to train hunting dogs or falcons and field trials using pigeons, pheasant, jungle fowl, Coturnix, guineafowl, New World quail, chukar partridge along with duck, goose, swan or migratory waterfowl for which a federal permit is not required
  
  • May release only on day of activity and must make reasonable effort to capture, kill or recover the game AND must comply with all state laws
    

(5 AAC 92.029)

       wolf and wild cat hybrids     

BANS possession, transport, sale and advertising for sale of wolves and wolf hybrids along with wild cat hybrids less than four generations removed as pets.

• PERMIT for wolves and hybrids and wild cat hybrids used for other purposes
  

• EXEMPT: Possession of wild cat hybrids 4+ generations removed with a pedigree showing lineage
  

• GRANDFATHERING: Wolf hybrids owned on 1/23/2002 that were microchipped and spayed/neutered by 7/1/2002 with up-to-date licensing and vaccination records available for inspection and is not transferred to anyone other than an immediate family member.
  
  • Grandfathered wolf hybrids that bite a person must be surrendered
    

(5 AAC 92.030) 

    SCIENTIFIC/EDUCATIONAL/PROPAGATIVE/PUBLIC SAFETY PURPOSES PERMITS    

PERMIT is required to take, possess, export or import game for Scientific, Educational, Propagation or Public Safety purposes

• Public Safety Permit
  
• Educational Permit/Exhibition Permit
  
• Propagation Permit
  
• Scientific Permit
  

ALLOWS:             

• Taking specified big game animals for public safety purposes after Department evaluates all problems caused and all solutions and finds it is necessary – limited to that animal; Also issues general permits
  

(5 AAC 92.033)

    TEMPORARY COMMERCIAL USE LIVE GAME PERMIT  

PERMIT (Permit for Temporary Commercial Use of Live Game) issued for temporary commercial use of live game.

• LIMITED TO: native game outside state and exotics for circus, traveling show or film
  

REQUIREMENTS:            

• $500 surety deposit which is forfeited if animals not removed in time
  
• Limit 1 permit per 12 months per animal
  
• Valid for 120 days unless extended
  
• Animal trainers, owners, caretakers must maintain control
  

(5 AAC 92.035)

  VENOMOUS REPTILES AND INSECTS 

BANS import, possess, transport, or release in the state of venomous reptiles and insects and eggs

• EXEMPT: Bees and education purposes including educational institutions and zoos that obtain an Education Permit or Exhibition Permit
  

(AS 16.05.921)

 

               ENDANGERED SPECIES          

BANS harvest, capture and propagation of endangered species

• EXEMPT: 
  
  • Educational Permit (educational purposes)
    
  • Scientific Permit (scientific purposes)
    
  • Propagation Permit (Propagation in captivity for preservation)
    

(AS 16.20 Art. 3)

 

 
   FISH, CRUSTACEANS, MOLLUSKS  

BANS import, ownership, possession, breeding, transport, distribution, release, purchase and sale of US injurious fish, mollusks and crustaceans.

• EXEMPT (Non-US Injurious):  
  
  • Live oysters from NA Pacific Coast for aquaculture
    
  • Ornamental fish not for food or sport fishing not released in state waters
    
  • Weathervane scallops from Southeast AK or Yakutat area for aquaculture
    

BANS importing live fish to stock or rear in state waters.

(5 AAC 41.070)

 

           ELEPHANT PERMIT      

PERMIT required to possess, import or export elephants.   

LIMITED TO: commercial exhibition

REQUIREMENTS:  

• Have facilities to maintain animal in positive control and humane conditions
  
• Have personal injury and property damage insurance in amount required
  

(AS Sec. 16.40.060)

 

           AVICULTURE PERMIT       

PERMIT (Aviculture Permit) required to possess, sell, import, or export captive-bred birds listed.

LIMITATION: Must not be endangered

LIST:
     Order Galliformes:  

• family Megapodiidae
  
• family Cracidae
  
• family Phasianidaes
  
  • genus Alectoris (Partridge except Chukar partridge)
    
  • genus Francolinus 
    
  • genus Ammoperdix (Sand-partridge)
    
  • Capercaille
    

REQUIREMENTS: 

• Have wings clipped
  
• Do NOT release into wild
  
• Annual report about birds held
  
• Suitable facilities
  
• Import requires certificate of good health
  
• Allow inspections
  
• NOT kill birds of prey in defense of their birds (may trap with permission)
  

(5 AAC 92.028)

 

      FALCONRY PERMIT (REVISED 3/10/22)   

BANS export of wild-caught raptors except for resident change.

PERMIT (Falconry Permit) required to take, transport or possess a raptor for falconry or practice it.

LIST (2018):

 Harrier:                 northern harrier

Hawks                   sharp-shinned, red-tailed/Harlan’s, rough-legged, Asiatic sparrow

                             northern goshawk (nonindigenous subspecies must be behaviorally (imprinting) or surgically sterilized, except Accipiter gentilis atricapillus or A.g. laingi)

Eagles:                  golden, white-tailed sea, Steller's sea

Falcon:                  merlin, gyrfalcon, peregrine falon, American kestrel, Eurasian kestrel

Owls:                     great-horned owl, snowy, northern hawk-owl, barred, great-gray, western screech-owl, northern pygmy-owl, long-eared, short-eared, boreal, northern saw-whet

Hybrids

Nonindigenous:               

                                                Harris's hawk

                                                Cooper's hawk

                                                Ferruginous hawk

                                                Swainson's hawk

                                                prairie falcon

                                                Aplomado falcon

REQUIREMENTS:  

• Follow Alaska Falconry Manual No. 10
  
• Also need hunting license
  
• Live raptors exported need microchip
  
• Peregrine falcon take requires master class or general class permit with 2 years of experience with general class
  

NONRESIDENT REQUIREMENTS:

• Allows issuing 5 permits for eyas Northern Goshawk and 5 for eyas Peale’s Peregrine Falcon in addition to regular 5
  
  • Take is May 1 – July 20 and limited to 1 passage raptor or 1 of the two species above
    
• Limits raptor microchip requirement for export to only gyrfalcons AND requires registering with international registry with proof submitted within 90 days
  
• Changes season for acquiring passage raptor to Sep 15 - Nov 15
  
• Those successful in capturing a raptor are ineligible for another permit for 4 years and ineligible for the next year if unsuccessful
  
• Take is same quotas as for residents with same raptors; allows 2 raptors either eyas or passage
  

(5 AAC 92.037)

 

                        IMPORT                         

Health certificate required for importing animals

PERMIT required to import equine, cervids, camelids, cattle, bison, yak, goat, sheep, swine and poultry import along with ferrets from quarantine area

REQUIREMENTS:  

• Ferrets need rabies vaccine
  
• Camelids need to be from brucellosis and TB free herd or test negative within 60 days, be free from ectoparasites and have tattoo, eartag, hairclip or microchip
  
• Meet the listed requirements for cervids
  

(18 AAC 36)