PREPROPOSAL STATEMENT OF INQUIRY
FISH AND WILDLIFE
Subject of Possible Rule Making: Commercial fishing rules.
Statutes Authorizing the Agency to Adopt Rules on this Subject: RCW 77.12.047.
Reasons Why Rules on this Subject may be Needed and What They Might Accomplish: The sardine fishery is a developing fishery off the Washington coast, and additional rules are needed [to] manage this fishery and the participation in the fishery, and to assure accurate catch accounting.
Other Federal and State Agencies that Regulate this Subject and the Process Coordinating the Rule with These Agencies: None.
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 Phil Anderson, Special Assistant for Intergovernmental Resource Management, 600 Capitol Way North, Olympia, WA 98504-1041, phone (360) 902-2720. Contact by March 6, 2003, expected proposal filing March 7, 2002 [2003].
January 13, 2003
Evan Jacoby
Rules Coordinator