WSR 97-07-053
PERMANENT RULES
DEPARTMENT OF
FISH AND WILDLIFE
(Fisheries)
[Order 97-52--Filed March 17, 1997, 3:07 p.m.]
Date of Adoption: February 1, 1997.
Purpose: Amend commercial fishing rules.
Citation of Existing Rules Affected by this Order: Amending WAC 220-48-015.
Statutory Authority for Adoption: RCW 75.08.080.
Adopted under notice filed as WSR 96-21-147 on October 23, 1996.
Changes Other than Editing from Proposed to Adopted Version: Reformat proposals with no additions or deletions. Adopt option (5).
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, amended 0, repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, amended 0, repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, amended 0, repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, amended 1, repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's own Initiative: New 0, amended 0, repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, amended 0, repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted using Negotiated Rule Making: New 0, amended 0, repealed 0; Pilot Rule Making: New 0, amended 0, repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 0, amended 0, repealed 0.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 17, 1997
Lisa Pelly, Chairperson
Fish and Wildlife Commission
AMENDATORY SECTION (Amending Order 94-96, filed 9/7/94, effective 10/8/94 WAC 220-48-015 Beam trawl and bottom trawl--Seasons. (1) It is lawful to fish for and possess bottomfish taken with bottom trawl and beam trawl gear in Marine Fish-Shellfish Management and Catch Reporting Areas 20A, 20B, 21A, 22A, 22B, 23A, 23B, 23C, 25A, 25B, and 29 the entire year with the following exceptions:
(a) Those waters of Area 20A east of a line projected from Point Whitehorn to Sandy Point are closed the entire year.
(b) Those waters of Area 20A within an area bounded by lines from Lilly Point to Birch Point and from the southwest corner of Point Roberts to Point Whitehorn to where these two lines are intersected by a line south from Kwomais Point in British Columbia and a line from Lilly Point to the north Alden Bank buoy are closed April 15 through May 31.
(c) Those waters of Area 20A within an area bounded by lines from Lilly Point to Birch Point and Lilly Point to the north Alden Bank buoy to where those lines are intersected by a line projected approximately 230 degrees south from Birch Point to Alden Point on Patos Island are closed June 1 through June 30.
(d) Areas 20A, 20B, 21A, 22A and 22B are closed to all trawl fishing in waters less than 30 feet deep.
(e) Areas 20A, 20B, 21A, 22A and 22B are closed in waters deeper than 40 fathoms from September 1 through December 31.
(f) Areas 23C and 29 are closed to otter trawl fishing the entire year in waters shallower than 50 fathoms and are closed to beam trawl fishing in waters less than 60 feet deep.
(g) Area 23C is closed to otter trawl Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday, January 1 through August 31, and closed to all otter trawl September 1 through December 31.
(2) It is lawful to fish for and possess bottomfish taken with beam trawl gear in Marine Fish-Shellfish Management and Catch Reporting Areas 23A, 23B, 25A and 25B the entire year with the following exceptions:
(a) All of Area 25A is closed February 1 through April 15 of each year.
(b) Those waters of Area 25A lying southerly and westerly of a line projected from Kiapot Point to Gibson Spit (Sequim Bay) are closed the entire year.
(c) Areas 23A, 25A and 25B are closed to beam trawl fishing in waters less than 60 feet deep.
(3) It is unlawful to fish for or possess bottomfish taken with otter trawl gear in Marine Fish-Shellfish Management and Catch Reporting Areas 23A, 23B, 25A and 25B the entire year.
(4) It is unlawful to take, fish for or possess bottomfish taken
with bottom trawl or beam trawl gear ((for commercial purposes)) in
Marine Fish-Shellfish Management and Catch Reporting Areas 21B, 23D, 24A,
24B, 24C, 24D, 25C, 25D, 25E, 26A, 26B, 26C, 26D, 27A, 27B, 27C, 28A,
28B, 28C, and 28D the entire year.
[Statutory Authority: RCW 75.08.080. 94-19-001 (Order 94-96), 220-48-015, filed 9/7/94, effective 10/8/94; 94-12-009 (Order 94-23), 220-48-015, filed 5/19/94, effective 6/19/94; 91-13-051 (Order 91-39), 220-48-015, filed 6/14/91, effective 7/15/91; 89-14-010 (Order 89-48), 220-48-015, filed 6/22/89; 87-04-003 (Order 87-03), 220-48-015, filed 1/22/87; 85-08-023 (Order 85-24), 220-48-015, filed 4/1/85; 84-08-014 (Order 84-24), 220-48-015, filed 3/27/84; 83-24-024 (Order 83-200), 220-48-015, filed 11/30/83, effective 1/1/84; 83-04-025 (Order 83-04), 220-48-015, filed 1/27/83; 82-24-080 (Order 82-215), 220-48-015, filed 12/1/82, effective 1/1/83; 82-14-056 (Order 82-72), 220-48-015, filed 7/1/82.]