PERMANENT RULES
FISH AND WILDLIFE
Date of Adoption: January 18, 2001.
Purpose: Amend commercial crab fishing rules.
Citation of Existing Rules Affected by this Order: Amending WAC 220-52-040 and 220-52-046.
Statutory Authority for Adoption: RCW 77.12.047.
Adopted under notice filed as WSR 00-22-105 on November 1, 2000.
Changes Other than Editing from Proposed to Adopted Version: WAC 220-52-046, subsection (1), night closure restored, clarified that night closure begins October 1st; subsection (1)(a), general area closures moved to subsection (4); subsection (1)(b), housekeeping clarification; subsection (2)(g), renumbered as subsection (2)(e), restored Dungeness Bay closure, changed closure line; subsection (2)(h), renumbered as subsection (2)(f), restored Port Townsend closure; subsection (3)(a), add closure in Birch Bay from October 1 through October 31; subsection (4), renumbered section; subsection (4)(a), added general areas closures from subsection (1)(a); (former) subsection (4)(n), deleted proposed addition, restored in (new) subsection (2)(e); and (former) subsection (4)(o), deleted proposed addition, restored in (new) subsection (2)(f).
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's Own Initiative: New 0, Amended 2, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted Using Negotiated Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Pilot Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.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.
May 3, 2001
Debbie Nelson
for Russ Cahill, Chair
Fish and Wildlife Commission
OTS-4497.4
AMENDATORY SECTION(Amending Order 00-164, filed 8/23/00,
effective 9/23/00)
WAC 220-52-040
Commercial crab fishery -- Lawful and unlawful
gear, methods, and other unlawful acts.
(1) Net fishing boats
shall not have crab aboard. It is unlawful for any vessel geared
or equipped with commercial net fishing gear to have aboard any
quantity of crab while it is fishing with the net gear or when it
has other food fish or shellfish aboard for commercial purposes.
(2) Area must be open to commercial crabbing. Unless otherwise provided, it is unlawful to set, maintain, or operate any baited or unbaited shellfish pots or ring nets for taking crabs for commercial purposes in any area or at any time when the location is not opened for taking crabs for commercial purposes by permanent rule or emergency rule of the department: Provided, That following the close of a commercial crab season, permission may be granted by the director or his or her designee on a case-by-case basis for crab fishers to recover shellfish pots that were irretrievable due to extreme weather conditions at the end of the lawful opening. Crab fishers must notify and apply to department enforcement for such permission within twenty-four hours prior to the close of season.
(3) Crabs must be male and 6-1/4 inches. It is unlawful for any person acting for commercial purposes to take, possess, deliver, or otherwise control:
(a) Any female Dungeness crabs; or
(b) Any male Dungeness crabs measuring less than 6-1/4 inches, caliper measurement, across the back immediately in front of the tips.
(4) Each person and each Puget Sound license limited to 100 pots. It is unlawful for any person to take or fish for crab for commercial purposes in the Puget Sound licensing district using, operating, or controlling any more than an aggregate total of 100 shellfish pots or ring nets. This limit shall apply to each license. However, this shall not preclude a person holding two Puget Sound crab licenses from designating and using the licenses from one vessel as authorized by RCW 75.28.048(4).
(5) ((Dungeness Bay Area Limit of 20 pots. No person, nor
any group of persons using the same vessel, may take or fish for
crabs for commercial purposes by setting, using, operating, or
controlling more than 20 shellfish pots and/or ring nets within
the waters of Dungeness Bay lying west of a line projected from
the new Dungeness Light southward to the outermost end of the
abandoned dock at the Three Crabs Restaurant on the southern
shore of Dungeness Bay.
(6))) Additional area gear limits. The following Marine Fish-Shellfish Management and Catch Reporting Areas are restricted in the number of pots fished, operated, or used by a person or vessel and it is unlawful for any person to use, maintain, operate, or control pots in excess of the following limits:
(a) 10 pots in Marine Fish-Shellfish Management and Catch Reporting Area 25E.
(b) 10 pots in all waters of Marine Fish-Shellfish Management and Catch Reporting Area 25A south of a line projected true west from Travis Spit on Miller Peninsula.
(c) ((30)) 20 pots in that portion of Marine Fish-Shellfish
Management and Catch Reporting Area 25A west of a line projected
from the new Dungeness Light to the mouth of Cooper Creek and
east of a line projected from the new Dungeness Light to the
outermost end of the abandoned dock at the Three Crabs Restaurant
on the southern shore of Dungeness Bay.
(d) 10 pots in that portion of Marine Fish-Shellfish Management and Catch Reporting Area 23D west of a line from the eastern tip of Ediz Hook to the I77 Rayonier Dock.
(((7))) (6) Groundline gear is unlawful. No crab pot or
ring net may be attached or connected to other crab pot or ring
net by a common groundline or any other means that connects crab
pots together.
(((8))) (7) Puget Sound crab pots must be tagged. In Puget
Sound it is unlawful to place in the water, pull from the water,
possess on the water, or transport on the water any crab pot
without a pot tag that meets the requirements of WAC 220-52-043.
(((9))) (8) Puget Sound - No person can possess or use gear
with other person's tag. In Puget Sound no person may possess,
use, control, or operate any crab pot not bearing a tag
identifying the pot as that person's, except that an alternate
operator designated on a primary license may possess and operate
a crab pot bearing the tag of the license holder.
(((10))) (9) Cannot tamper with pot tags. No person shall
remove, damage, or otherwise tamper with crab pot tags except
when lawfully applying or removing tags on the person's own pots.
(((11))) (10) Thirty-day period when it is unlawful to buy
or land crab from ocean without crab vessel inspection. It is
unlawful for any fisher or wholesale dealer or buyer to land or
purchase Dungeness crab taken from Grays Harbor, Willapa Bay,
Columbia River, Washington coastal or adjacent waters of the
Pacific Ocean during the first thirty days following the opening
of a coastal crab season from any vessel which has not been
issued a Washington crab vessel inspection certificate. The
certificate will be issued to vessels made available for
inspection in a Washington coastal port and properly licensed for
commercial crab fishing if no Dungeness crabs are aboard. Inspections will be performed by authorized department personnel
not earlier than twelve hours prior to the opening of the coastal
crab season and during the following thirty-day period.
(((12))) (11) Grays Harbor pot limit of 200. It is unlawful
for any person to take or fish for crab for commercial purposes
in Grays Harbor (catch area 60B) with more than 200 shellfish
pots in the aggregate. It shall be unlawful for any group of
persons using the same vessel to take or fish for crab for
commercial purposes in Grays Harbor with more than 200 shellfish
pots.
(((13))) (12) Coastal crab pot limit.
(a) It is unlawful for a person to take or fish for Dungeness crab for commercial purposes in Grays Harbor, Willapa Bay, the Columbia River, or waters of the Pacific Ocean adjacent to the state of Washington unless a shellfish pot limit has been assigned to the Dungeness crab-coastal fishery license held by the person, or to the equivalent Oregon or California Dungeness crab fishery license held by the person.
(b) It is unlawful for a person to deploy or fish more shellfish pots than the number of shellfish pots assigned to the license held by that person, and it is unlawful to use any vessel other than the vessel designated on a license to operate or possess shellfish pots assigned to that license.
(c) It is unlawful for a person to take or fish for Dungeness crab or to deploy shellfish pots unless the person is in possession of valid documentation issued by the department that specifies the shellfish pot limit assigned to the license.
(((14))) (13) Determination of coastal crab pot limits.
(a) The number of shellfish pots assigned to a Washington Dungeness crab-coastal fishery license, or to an equivalent Oregon or California Dungeness crab fishery license will be based on documented landings of Dungeness crab taken from waters of the Pacific Ocean south of the United States/Canada border and west of the Bonilla-Tatoosh line, and from coastal estuaries in the states of Washington, Oregon and California. Documented landings may be evidenced only by valid Washington state shellfish receiving tickets, or equivalent valid documents from the states of Oregon and California, that show Dungeness crab were taken between December 1, 1996, and September 16, 1999. Such documents must have been received by the respective states no later than October 15, 1999.
(b) The following criteria shall be used to determine and assign a shellfish pot limit to a Dungeness crab-coastal fishery license, or to an equivalent Oregon or California Dungeness crab fishery license:
(i) The three "qualifying coastal Dungeness crab seasons" are from December 1, 1996, through September 15, 1997, from December 1, 1997, through September 15, 1998, and from December 1, 1998, through September 15, 1999. Of the three qualifying seasons, the one with the most poundage of Dungeness crab landed on a license shall determine the crab pot limit for that license. A crab pot limit of 300 shall be assigned to a license with landings that total from zero to 35,999 pounds and a crab pot limit of 500 shall be assigned to a license with landings that total 36,000 pounds or more.
(ii) Landings of Dungeness crab made in the states of Oregon or California on valid Dungeness crab fisheries licenses during a qualifying season may be used for purposes of assigning a shellfish pot limit to a Dungeness crab fishery license, provided that documentation of the landings is provided to the department by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife and/or the California Department of Fish and Game. Landings of Dungeness crab made in Washington, Oregon, and California on valid Dungeness crab fishery licenses during a qualifying season may be combined for purposes of assigning a shellfish pot limit, provided that the same vessel was named on the licenses, and the same person held the licenses. A shellfish pot limit assigned as a result of combined landings is invalidated by any subsequent split in ownership of the licenses. No vessel named on a Dungeness crab fishery license shall be assigned more than one shellfish pot limit.
(((15))) (14) Appeals of coastal crab pot limits. An appeal
of a shellfish pot limit by a coastal commercial license holder
shall be filed with the department on or before the 30th day
following the department's assignment of a shellfish pot limit
under subsection (((14))) (13) of this section. The shellfish
pot limit assigned to a license by the department shall remain in
effect until such time as the appeal process is concluded.
(((16))) (15) Coastal - Barging of crab pots by undesignated
vessels. It is lawful for a vessel not designated on a Dungeness
crab-coastal fishery license to be used to deploy shellfish pot
gear provided that:
(a) Such a vessel may not carry aboard more than 150 shellfish pots at any one time.
(b) Such a vessel may deploy shellfish pot gear only during the 64-hour period immediately preceding the season opening date and during the 48-hour period immediately following the season opening date.
(c) The lawful owner of the shellfish pot gear must be aboard the vessel when the gear is being deployed.
(((17))) (16) Coastal shellfish pot tags. It is unlawful
for a person to use a shellfish pot in the coastal Dungeness crab
fishery unless the pot bears a tag that identifies either the
name of the vessel being used to operate the pot or the Dungeness
crab fishery license number of the owner of the pot, and the
telephone number of a contact person. No person may operate or
possess a pot that bears another person's tag, except that a
person who is licensed as an alternate operator may operate or
possess a pot that bears the tag of the primary license holder.
It is unlawful for any person who is not the owner of Dungeness
crab pot gear to remove, damage, or otherwise tamper with pot
gear tags.
(((18))) (17) Coastal - Registration and use of buoy brands
and colors.
(a) It is unlawful for any coastal Dungeness crab fishery license holder to fish for crab unless the license holder has registered the buoy brand and buoy color(s) to be used with the license. A license holder shall be allowed to register with the department only one, unique buoy brand and one buoy color scheme per license. Persons holding more than one license state shall register buoy color(s) for each license that are distinctly different. The buoy color(s) shall be shown in a color photograph.
(b) It is unlawful for a coastal Dungeness crab fishery license holder to fish for crab using any other buoy brand or color(s) than those registered with and assigned to the license by the department.
[Statutory Authority: RCW 77.12.047. 00-18-005 (Order 00-164), 220-52-040, filed 8/23/00, effective 9/23/00. Statutory Authority: RCW 75.08.080. 98-19-012 (Order 98-185), 220-52-040, filed 9/4/98, effective 10/5/98; 98-05-043, 220-52-040, filed 2/11/98, effective 3/14/98; 97-08-052 (Order 97-55), 220-52-040, filed 3/31/97, effective 5/1/97; 94-12-009 (Order 94-23), 220-52-040, filed 5/19/94, effective 6/19/94; 91-10-024 (Order 91-22), 220-52-040, filed 4/23/91, effective 5/24/91; 85-01-010 (Order 84-214), 220-52-040, filed 12/7/84; 84-08-014 (Order 84-24), 220-52-040, filed 3/27/84; 83-01-026 (Order 82-221), 220-52-040, filed 12/8/82; 80-13-064 (Order 80-123), 220-52-040, filed 9/17/80; 79-02-053 (Order 79-6), 220-52-040, filed 1/30/79; Order 77-145, 220-52-040, filed 12/13/77; Order 76-152, 220-52-040, filed 12/17/76; Order 76-26, 220-52-040, filed 1:45 p.m., 4/20/76; Order 1045, 220-52-040, filed 3/8/73; Order 807, 220-52-040, filed 1/2/69, effective 2/1/69; subsections 1, 5, 6, from Orders 409 and 256, filed 3/1/60; subsection 2 from Orders 500 and 256, filed 3/1/60; subsection 3 from Order 528, filed 6/1/61; Order 525, filed 5/3/61; Order 507, filed 4/8/60; Orders 409 and 256, filed 3/1/60; subsection 4 from Order 528, filed 6/1/61; Order 525, filed 5/3/61; Orders 409 and 256, filed 3/1/60; subsection 7 from Orders 414 and 256, filed 3/1/60; subsection 8 from Orders 410 and 256, filed 3/1/60; subsection 9 from Order 409, filed 9/14/56.]
The lawful open times and areas for commercial crab fishing are as follows:
(1) All Puget Sound Marine Fish-Shellfish Management and
Catch Reporting Areas are open for commercial crab fishing
beginning 8:00 a.m. October 1st through the following April 15th
and, after 8:00 a.m. October 1st, one-half hour before sunrise to
one-half hour after sunset, except((:
(a) Areas 25C, 26B, 26C, 26D, 27A, 27B, 27C, 28A, 28B, 28C, and 28D are not open to commercial crab fishing; and
(b) The areas and times)) as provided by other subsections
below ((are not open to commercial crab fishing)).
(2) The following areas are closed to commercial crab fishing except for treaty Indian commercial crab fishing where the treaty Indian crab fisher is following tribal openings that are in accordance with provisions of court orders in United States v. Washington:
(a) ((Those waters of Marine Fish-Shellfish Management and
Catch Reporting Area 20A between a line from the boat ramp at the
western boundary of Birch Bay State Park to the western point of
the entrance of the Birch Bay Marina and a line from the same
boat ramp to Birch Point are closed March 1 through April 15.
(b))) Those waters of Marine Fish-Shellfish Management and Catch Reporting Area 20A in Lummi Bay east of a line projected from the entrance buoy at Sandy Point to Gooseberry Point.
(((c))) (b) Those waters of Marine Fish-Shellfish Management
and Catch Reporting Area 21A in Bellingham Bay west of a line
projected from the exposed boulder at Point Francis to the
pilings at Stevie's Point.
(((d))) (c) Those waters of Marine Fish-Shellfish Management
and Catch Reporting Area 24A east of lines projected north from
the most westerly tip of Skagit Island and south to the most
westerly tip of Hope Island, thence southeast to Seal Rocks,
thence southeast to the green can buoy at the mouth of Swinomish
Channel, thence easterly to the west side of Goat Island.
(((e))) (d) Those waters of Marine Fish-Shellfish Management
and Catch Reporting Area 24B inside a line projected from Priest
Point to the five-meter tower between Gedney Island and Priest
Point, thence northwesterly on a line between the five-meter
tower and Barnum Point to the intersection with a line projected
true west from Kayak Point, thence east to shore.
(((f) Those waters of Marine Fish-Shellfish Management and
Catch Reporting Area 24B north of a line projected true west from
Kayak Point and south and west of a line from Kayak Point to
Barnum Point.
(g))) (e) Those waters of Marine Fish-Shellfish Management
and Catch Reporting Area 25A west of a line from the new
Dungeness Light to the ((mouth of Cooper Creek are closed through
November 15th of each year)) outermost tip of the abandoned dock
at the Three Crabs Restaurant.
(((h))) (f) Those waters of Marine Fish-Shellfish Management
and Catch Reporting Area 25D within a line projected from the
Point Hudson Marina entrance to the northern tip of Indian
Island, thence to Kala Point, and thence following the shoreline
to the point of origin.
(3) The following areas are closed to commercial crab fishing during the periods indicated:
(a) Those waters of Marine Fish-Shellfish Management and Catch Reporting Area 20A between a line from the boat ramp at the western boundary of Birch Bay State Park to the western point of the entrance of the Birch Bay Marina and a line from the same boat ramp to Birch Point are closed October 1 through October 31 and March 1 through April 15.
(b) Those waters of Marine Fish-Shellfish Management and
Catch Reporting Area 24C inshore of the 400 foot depth contour
within an area bounded by parallel lines projected northeasterly
from Sandy Point and the entrance to the marina at Langley are
closed October 1 through October ((31)) 15, and March ((1)) 15
through April 15 of each year.
(((b))) (c) Those waters of Marine Fish-Shellfish Management
and Catch Reporting Area 26A in Useless Bay north and east of a
line from ((Indian Point to a point on shore 1.5 miles northeast
of)) the south end of the Double Bluff State Park seawall
(4758.782'N, 12230.840'W) projected 110 degrees true to the
boulder on shore (4757.690'N, 12226.742'W) are closed October
((1)) 15 through October 31, and March ((1)) 15 through April 15
of each year.
(((c) Those waters of Marine Fish-Shellfish Management and
Catch Reporting Area 21B inside lines from Oyster Creek to the
fisheries monument on Samish Island and from Oyster Creek to
Point Williams are closed shoreward of the ten fathom contour
October 1 through October 31, and March 1 through April 15 of
each year.))
(d) Those waters of Marine Fish-Shellfish Management and Catch Reporting Area 22B in Fidalgo Bay south of a line projected from the red number 4 entrance buoy at Cap Sante Marina to the northern end of the eastern most oil dock are closed October 1 through October 31, and March 1 through April 15 of each year.
(e) ((Those waters of Marine Fish-Shellfish Management and
Catch Reporting Area 24A in Coronet Bay south of a line projected
true east and west from the northernmost tip of Ben Ure Island
are closed October 1 through October 31, and March 1 through
April 15 of each year.)) Those waters of Marine Fish-Shellfish
Management and Catch Reporting Area 22A in Deer Harbor north of a
line projected from Steep Point to Pole Pass are closed October 1
through October 31 and March 1 through April 15 of each year.
(4) The following areas are closed to commercial crab fishing until further notice:
(a) Areas 25C, 26B, 26C, 26D, 27A, 27B, 27C, 28A, 28B, 28C, 28D and those waters of Area 25E south of a line from Contractors Point to Tukey Point.
(b) Those waters of Marine Fish-Shellfish Management and Catch Reporting Area 24A within a line projected from Rocky Point northeast to the red number 2 buoy, thence to Brown Point.
(((b))) (c) Those waters of Marine Fish-Shellfish Management
and Catch Reporting Area 24D south of a line from ((Dines Point))
the point at the southern end of Honeymoon Bay (4803.047'N,
12232.306'W) to the point just north of Beverly Beach.
(((c))) (d) Those waters of Marine Fish-Shellfish Management
and Catch Reporting Area 26A ((south and)) east of a line
projected from the ((3A buoy at the Snohomish River mouth to
the)) outermost tip of the ferry dock at Mukilteo to the green #3
buoy at the mouth of the Snohomish River and west of a line
projected from the #3 buoy southward to the oil boom pier on the
shoreline.
(((d))) (e) Those waters of Marine Fish-Shellfish Management
and Catch Reporting Area 26A within a line from the green number
1 buoy at Scatchet Head to the green number 1 buoy at Possession
Point thence following the 200 foot contour to a point due east
from the Glendale Dock.
(((e))) (f) Those waters of Marine Fish-Shellfish Management
and Catch Reporting Area 21B in Samish Bay south of a line from
((Oyster Creek to the fisheries management monument on Samish
Island)) Point Williams to Fish Point.
(((f))) (g) Those waters of Marine Fish-Shellfish Management
and Catch Reporting Area 22A in Westcott and Garrison Bays east
of a line projected due south from Point White to San Juan
Island.
(((g))) (h) Those waters of Marine Fish-Shellfish Management
and Catch Reporting Area 20A in Birch Bay east of a line
projected from the boat ramp at the western boundary of Birch Bay
State Park to the western point of the entrance to the Birch Bay
Marina.
(((h))) (i) Those waters of Marine Fish-Shellfish Management
and Catch Reporting Area 21A ((shoreward of the ten-fathom (MLLW)
contour in)) inside of Chuckanut Bay east of a line projected
north from Governor's Point to the east side of Chuckanut Island
thence to Chuckanut Rock thence to the most southerly tip of
Clark's Point.
(((i))) (j) Those waters of Marine Fish-Shellfish Management
and Catch Reporting Area 22A in Blind Bay south of a line
projected due west from Point Hudson to Shaw Island.
(((j) Those waters of Marine Fish-Shellfish Management and
Catch Reporting Area 22A in Deer Harbor north of a line projected
from Steep Point to Pole Pass.))
(k) Those waters of Marine Fish-Shellfish Management and Catch Reporting Area 22A in Fisherman Bay south of a line projected east-west through the red number 4 entrance buoy.
(l) Those waters of Marine Fish-Shellfish Management and Catch Reporting Area 22A in Mud Bay south of a line projected from Lopez Island through Crab and Fortress Islands to Lopez Island.
(m) Those waters of Marine Fish-Shellfish Management and Catch Reporting Area 22B in Padilla Bay within a line projected from the northern end of the eastern most oil dock to the red number 2 buoy, thence southeasterly to the red number 8 buoy, thence west to shore.
(n) ((All waters in the San Juan Islands Marine Preserve
Area.)) Those waters of Marine Fish-Shellfish Management and
Catch Reporting Area 24A in Cornet Bay south of a line projected
true east and west from the northernmost tip of Ben Ure Island.
(o) That portion of Marine Fish-Shellfish Management and Catch Reporting Area 20B which includes all waters of Prevost Harbor between Stuart Island and Satellite Island southwest of a line from Charles Point on Stuart Island to the northwest tip of Satellite Island and southwest of a line from the southeast end of Satellite Island to Stuart Island.
(p) Those waters of Marine Fish-Shellfish Management and Catch Reporting Area 22A in East Sound north of a line from the southern point of Judd Bay on the west to Giffin Rocks on the east.
(5) Coastal, Pacific Ocean, Grays Harbor, Willapa Bay and Columbia River waters are open to commercial crab fishing December 1 through September 15 except that it is lawful to set baited crab gear beginning at 8:00 a.m. November 28. However, the department may delay opening of the coastal crab fishery due to softshell crab conditions, in which case the following provisions will apply:
(a) After consultation with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, the director may, by emergency rule, establish a softshell crab demarcation line.
(b) For waters of the Pacific Ocean north of Point Arena, California, it is unlawful for a person to use a vessel to fish in any area for which the season opening has been delayed due to softshell crab for the first thirty days following the opening of such an area if the vessel was employed in the coastal crab fishery during the previous forty-five days.
(c) Fishers may not set crab gear in any area where the season opening has been delayed, except that gear may be set as allowed by emergency rule and shall allow setting sixty-four hours in advance of the delayed season opening time.
(d) It is unlawful to fish for or possess Dungeness crabs or to set crab gear in waters of the Pacific Ocean adjacent to the states of Oregon or California except during the lawful open seasons, areas and times specified by the individual states.
(6) The following areas (Special Management Area; SMA's) are closed to commercial crab fishing during the periods indicated, except for treaty Indian commercial crab fishing where the treaty Indian crab fisher is following tribal openings that are in accordance with provisions of court orders in United States v. Washington:
(a) Those waters bounded by lines projected between the following coordinates:
| Southern SMA Description: | ||
| NW corner: | 4709.00'N | 12423.80'W (LORAN 41885) |
| NE corner: | 4709.00'N | 12416.30'W |
| SW corner: | 4658.00'N | 12422.00'W (LORAN 41885) |
| SE corner: | 4658.00'N | 12415.30'W |
| Northern SMA Description: | ||
| NW corner: | 4732.00'N | 12434.00'W (LORAN 41865) |
| NE corner: | 4732.00'N | 12429.50'W (LORAN 41880) |
| SW corner: | 4727.00'N | 12433.00'W (LORAN 41865) |
| SE corner: | 4727.00'N | 12428.60'W (LORAN 41880) |
(b) Those waters between 4740.50'N (Destruction Island) north to 4802.25'N, east of a line (to the coastline) described by the following points:
| Southern point: | 4740.50'N | 12437.50'W |
| Central point: | 4800.00'N | 12449.50'W |
| Northern point: | 4802.25'N | 12450.00'W |
(c) Those waters east of a line approximating the 25 fathom curve, from 4802.15'N 12450'00"W to 4807'36"N 12451'24"W to 4820'00"N 12450'00"W to Cape Flattery. This area will close to non-Indian fishing December 29, 1997, (after 28 days of fishing) and remain closed through March 31, 1998. The area will reopen on April 1, 1998, and remain open through September 15, 1998.
(d) It is unlawful to place gear, fish for or take Dungeness crab for commercial purposes in the following area from July 1 through September 15:
Those waters west of straight lines drawn in sequence from south to north between the following coordinates:
| Land description | Coordinate | |
| (i) | Washington - Oregon border | 4615.00'N 12410.00'W |
| (ii) | Seaview | 4620.00'N 12410.00'W |
| (iii) | Willapa Bay entrance | 4640.00'N 12410.00'W |
| (iv) | N. Willapa Bay spits | 4643.50'N 12411.50'W |
| (v) | Grayland | 4650.00'N 12412.30'W |
| (vi) | Grays Harbor | 4654.70'N 12416.00'W |
| (vii) | Ocean Shores | 4700.00'N 12416.00'W |
| (viii) | Moclips | 4715.00'N 12419.00'W |
| (ix) | Cape Elizabeth | 4720.00'N 12425.00'W |
| (x) | Raft River | 4727.00'N 12428.60'W (follow TD 41880 to waypoint # 11 N. Destruction Island) |
| (xi) | N. Destruction Island | 4742.40'N 12431.50'W |
| (xii) | Lapush | 4755.00'N 12446.00'W |
| (xiii) | Carol Island | 4800.00'N 12449.50'W |
| (xiv) | N. Lake Ozette | 4807.60'N 12451.40'W |
| (xv) | Makah Bay | 4820.00'N 12450.00'W |
| (xvi) | Cape Flattery | Point on land |
[Statutory Authority: RCW 75.08.080. 99-10-062 (Order 99-59), 220-52-046, filed 5/3/99, effective 6/3/99; 98-19-012 (Order 98-185), 220-52-046, filed 9/4/98, effective 10/5/98; 98-05-043, 220-52-046, filed 2/11/98, effective 3/14/98; 97-08-052 (Order 97-55), 220-52-046, filed 3/31/97, effective 5/1/97; 94-12-009 (Order 94-23), 220-52-046, filed 5/19/94, effective 6/19/94; 93-15-051, 220-52-046, filed 7/14/93, effective 8/14/93; 91-10-024 (Order 91-22), 220-52-046, filed 4/23/91, effective 5/24/91; 87-05-038 (Order 87-08), 220-52-046, filed 2/18/87; 85-01-010 (Order 84-214), 220-52-046, filed 12/7/84; 84-08-014 (Order 84-24), 220-52-046, filed 3/27/84; 83-01-026 (Order 82-221), 220-52-046, filed 12/8/82; 80-13-064 (Order 80-123), 220-52-046, filed 9/17/80; Order 76-152, 220-52-046, filed 12/17/76; Order 1179, 220-52-046, filed 11/19/74; Order 1112, 220-52-046, filed 4/15/74; Order 1057, 220-52-046, filed 5/22/73; Order 920, 220-52-046, filed 5/13/71; Order 807, 220-52-046, filed 1/2/69, effective 2/1/69. Formerly WAC 220-52-040 (2), (3), (4) and (9).]