WSR 03-15-095

EMERGENCY RULES

DEPARTMENT OF

FISH AND WILDLIFE

[ Order 03-158 -- Filed July 18, 2003, 4:18 p.m. , effective July 25, 2003, 12:01 a.m. ]

     Date of Adoption: July 18, 2003.

     Purpose: Amend personal use fishing rules.

     Citation of Existing Rules Affected by this Order: Repealing WAC 232-28-62000K; and amending WAC 232-28-620.

     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: This regulation is necessary to provide greater fishing opportunity for recreational fishers to harvest preseason quotas for chinook and coho. 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     Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.

     Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.

     Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's Own Initiative: New 1, Amended 0, Repealed 1.

     Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.

     Number of Sections Adopted Using Negotiated Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0;      Pilot Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.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: July 25, 2003, 12:01 a.m.

July 18, 2003

Philip Anderson

for Jeff Koenings

Director


NEW SECTION
WAC 232-28-62000L   Coastal salmon seasons.   Notwithstanding the provisions of WAC 232-28-620, effective 12:01 a.m. July 25, 2003, until further notice, it is unlawful to fish for salmon in coastal waters during 2003 except as provided in this section, provided that unless otherwise amended all permanent rules remain in effect:

     (1) Area 1 - Open immediately until further notice - Daily limit 2 salmon, not more than 1 of which may be a chinook, except release wild coho.

     (2) Areas 2 and 2-1 - Open immediately until further notice – Daily limit 2 salmon, not more than 1 of which may be a chinook, except release wild coho.

     (3) Area 2-2 - waters west of the Buoy 13 line - Open immediately until further notice – Daily limit 2 salmon, not more than 1 of which may be a chinook, except release wild coho.

     (4) Area 3 - Open immediately until further notice - Daily limit 2 salmon not more than one of which may be a chinook and 1 additional pink, except release wild coho.

     (5) Area 4:

     (a) Open immediately until further notice - Daily limit 2 salmon not more than one of which may be a chinook and 1 additional pink, except release wild coho, release chinook east of the Bonilla-Tatoosh Line, and effective beginning August 1, release chum.

     (i) Effective immediately through July 31, lawful to retain chinook east of the Bonilla-Tatoosh Line and west of a true north-south line through Sail Rock.

     (ii) Effective immediately through July 31 closed to salmon angling east of a true north/south line through Sail Rock.

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REPEALER


     The following section of the Washington Administrative Code is repealed effective 12:01 a.m. July 25, 2003:


WAC 232-28-62000K Coastal salmon seasons - 2003 North of Falcon (03-84)

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