PREPROPOSAL STATEMENT OF INQUIRY
FISH AND WILDLIFE
Subject of Possible Rule Making: Use of hatchery surplus broodstock and salmon eggs.
Statutes Authorizing the Agency to Adopt Rules on this Subject: RCW 77.12.047, 77.100.060.
Reasons Why Rules on this Subject may be Needed and What They Might Accomplish: The department has been instructed to utilize hatchery stocks in rebuilding salmon runs, including use of viable salmon eggs. Rule will clarify the provisions of chapter 337, Laws of 2001.
Other Federal and State Agencies that Regulate this Subject and the Process Coordinating the Rule with These Agencies: The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS). The department will coordinate hatchery stock and egg utilization with NMFS to ensure that there is no negative effect on wild stock ESA fish.
Process for Developing New Rule: Agency study.
Interested parties can participate in the decision to adopt the new rule and formulation of the proposed rule before publication by contacting Lew Atkins, Fish Program Assistant Director, 600 Capitol Way North, Olympia, WA 98501-1091, phone (360) 902-2651.
Contact by March 5, 2002, expected proposal filing March 6, 2002.
December 24, 2001
Evan Jacoby
Rules Coordinator