WSR 97-08-018
PERMANENT RULES
DEPARTMENT OF
FISH AND WILDLIFE
(Fisheries)
[Order 97-54--Filed March 25, 1997, 10:06 a.m.]
Date of Adoption: February 1, 1997.
Purpose: Amend personal use rules.
Citation of Existing Rules Affected by this Order: Amending WAC 220-56-305.
Statutory Authority for Adoption: RCW 75.08.080.
Adopted under notice filed as WSR 97-01-126 on December 19, 1996.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, amended 0, repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, amended 0, repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, amended 0, repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, amended 1, repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's own Initiative: New 0, amended 0, repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, amended 0, repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted using Negotiated Rule Making: New 0, amended 0, repealed 0; Pilot Rule Making: New 0, amended 0, repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 0, amended 0, repealed 0.
Effective Date of Rule: Thirty-one days after filing.
March 14, 1997
Bern Shanks, Ph.D.
Director
AMENDATORY SECTION (Amending Order 95-46, filed 5/31/95, effective 7/1/95 WAC 220-56-305 Sturgeon--Catch and release. It is unlawful to retain sturgeon taken from:
(1) Those waters of the Snake River or tributaries upstream from Lower Granite Dam;
(2) Those waters of the Columbia River and tributaries upstream from
((Grand Coulee)) Priest Rapids Dam;
(3) Those waters of the Columbia River between the upstream line of
Bonneville Dam and a line 400 feet below McNary Dam during the period
July 1 through December 31. Sturgeon that are hooked must be immediately
released and returned to the water.
[Statutory Authority: RCW 75.08.080. 95-12-027 (Order 95-46), 220-56-305, filed 5/31/95, effective 7/1/95; 94-14-069, 220-56-305, filed 7/1/94, effective 8/1/94; 86-09-020 (Order 86-08), 220-56-305, filed 4/9/86; 80-03-064 (Order 80-12), 220-56-305, filed 2/27/80, effective 4/1/80. Formerly WAC 220-56-073.]