(1) A fishery refers to the harvesting of a particular fishery resource(s) using a specific gear type(s) within a defined area. Combinations of use privileges in the 46 fisheries has resulted in 50 permit types being issued.

(2) AS 16.43.250 requires CFEC to rank applicants by determining the degree of hardship they would experience if excluded from an initial permit allocation. The commission is also required to determine which, if any, of these rankings represent only minor economic hardship. Permits issued to persons in minor economic hardship classifications are nontransferable. Most (1,455, or 87.4%) of the nontransferable permits issued to date have been in the hand troll fishery.

(3) By the end of 1994, 658 permits had been retired by revocation. These include 15 permits originally issued as a result of administrative error, 6 permits revoked under criminal proceedings, 97 nontransferable permits whose permit holder died, and 566 permits which were forfeited because renewal fees had not been paid for two consecutive years. By the end of 1994, 26 permits had been reinstated so that the total net number of retired permits was 658.