EMERGENCY RULES
FISH AND WILDLIFE
Date of Adoption: August 17, 2000.
Purpose: Amend personal use rules.
Citation of Existing Rules Affected by this Order: Repealing WAC 220-56-19100M and 220-56-19100N; and amending WAC 220-56-191.
Statutory Authority for Adoption: RCW 77.12.047.
Under RCW 34.05.350 the agency for good cause finds that immediate adoption, amendment, or repeal of a rule is necessary for the preservation of the public health, safety, or general welfare, and that observing the time requirements of notice and opportunity to comment upon adoption of a permanent rule would be contrary to the public interest.
Reasons for this Finding: In-season management information indicates the Green River chinook run is at, or below, preseason expectations and few fresh returning fish appear to be moving into the bay. The number of natural chinook remaining in the bay are needed for spawning, and chinook-directed fisheries in the Elliott Bay portion of Area 10 are being closed to salmon angling through August 31, including the two fishing piers that are normally open year round. There is insufficient time to promulgate permanent rules.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's Own Initiative: New 1, Amended 0, Repealed 2.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted Using Negotiated Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Pilot Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.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: August 18, 2000, 11:59 p.m.
August 17, 2000
J. P. Koenings
Director
Notwithstanding the provisions of WAC 220-56-191, effective 11:59 p.m. August 18 until further notice, it is unlawful to fish for or possess salmon taken from Catch Record Card Areas 5 through 13 except as provided for in this section:
Areas 5 and 6 - Open until further notice. Daily limit 2 salmon, except release chinook, chum and wild coho.
Area 7 - Open until further notice. Daily limit 2 salmon, not more than one of which may be a chinook salmon, except in Bellingham Bay and adjacent waters described in WAC 220-56-195(1) daily limit 4 salmon not more than one of which may be a chinook salmon, except closed in Samish Bay south of a line due east from Fish Point.
Areas 8-1 and 8-2 - Closed until further notice, except Tulalip Bay waters described in WAC 220-56-191 (4)(b) are open each Friday through 11:59 a.m. the following Monday, daily limit 2 salmon not more than one of which may be a chinook.
Area 9 - Closed until further notice except when fishing from the Edmonds fishing pier, daily limit 2 salmon not more than one of which may be a chinook.
Area 10 - Open until further notice, daily limit 2 salmon, except release chinook salmon, except:
(a) Closed through August 31 east of a line from West Point to Alki Point, including waters seaward (downstream) of the mouth of the Duwamish River (First Avenue South Bridge).
(b) Waters of Shilshole Bay east of a line from Meadow Point to West Point are closed.
(c) Effective immediately until further notice in Sinclair Inlet and Port Orchard south of the Manette Bridge, south of a line projected true west from Battle Point and west of a line projected true south from Point White the daily limit may contain up to two chinook.
(d) Waters east of a line from Point Wells to Meadow Point are closed.
(e) Effective 11:59 p.m. Friday, August 18 through August 31, fishing from the Elliott Bay Public Fishing Pier at Terminal 86 and the Seacrest fishing pier is closed.
Area 11 - Open until further notice. Daily limit 2 salmon, not more than one of which may be a chinook salmon.
Area 12 - Closed until further notice, except:
(a) Open south of Ayock Point. Daily limit 2 salmon, not more than one of which may be a chinook salmon. Release chum salmon.
(b) Open northeast of a true east-west line from Point Whitney to the Toandos Peninsula, daily limit 4 salmon, release chinook and chum.
(c) The Hoodsport Hatchery fishery is managed separately under WAC 220-56-124.
Area 13 - Open until further notice. Daily limit 2 salmon, release wild coho. Fishing from the Fox Island Public Fishing Pier open until further notice, daily limit 2 salmon not more than one of which may be a chinook, and release wild coho.
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The following section of the Washington Administrative Code
is repealed effective 11:59 p.m. August 18, 2000:
| WAC 220-56-19100M | Puget Sound salmon seasons. (00-151) |
The following section of the Washington Administrative Code is repealed effective 11:59 p.m. August 31, 2000:
| WAC 220-56-19100N | Puget Sound salmon seasons. |