EMERGENCY RULES
FISH AND WILDLIFE
Date of Adoption: May 2, 2003.
Purpose: Amend personal use rules.
Citation of Existing Rules Affected by this Order: Repealing WAC 232-28-61900Y and 232-28-61900A; and amending WAC 232-28-619.
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: These rules are part of the agreed to North of Falcon annual fish management plans. These interim personal use rules are necessary to cover the time period until those permanent rules become effective. In the case of the Quillayute River system, which includes the Bogachiel, Calawah, Dickey, Quillayute, and Sol Duc rivers, there is a definition for hatchery chinook that differs from the standard description. Although the adipose fin clip is now used to designate hatchery salmon that can be harvested, there still remain some chinook in this system that are identified by a ventral fin clip. Both adipose fin clipped and ventral fin clipped hatchery salmon are present in the fishery in the system, and it should be lawful for anglers to retain both kinds of such marked fish in these rivers, up to the quantity prescribed in the daily limit.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's Own Initiative: New 1, Amended 0, Repealed 2.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.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Repealed 0;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Repealed 0;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Repealed 0.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:
Immediately.
May 2, 2003
Evan Jacoby
for Jeff Koenings
Director
Baker River (Skagit County): Mouth to Highway 20 Bridge:
Open to salmon fishing July 1 through July 31. Daily limit 2
sockeye only.
Bogachiel River (Clallam County): Mouth to Highway 101
Bridge: effective July 1 until further notice, it is lawful
to retain within the quantities prescribed in the daily limit,
hatchery chinook salmon identified by either an adipose fin
clip or a ventral fin clip and having a healed scar at the
site of the missing fin.
Calawah River (Clallam County): Mouth to Highway 101 Bridge:
effective July 1 until further notice, it is lawful to retain
within the quantities prescribed in the daily limit, hatchery
chinook salmon identified by either an adipose fin clip or a
ventral fin clip and having a healed scar at the site of the
missing fin.
Carbon River (Pierce County): From mouth to Voight Creek:
Effective August 1 until further notice, single point barbless
hooks required.
Dickey River (Clallam County): Mouth to East Fork Dickey
River: effective July 1 until further notice, it is lawful to
retain within the quantities prescribed in the daily limit,
hatchery chinook salmon identified by either an adipose fin
clip or a ventral fin clip and having a healed scar at the
site of the missing fin.
Elwha River (Clallam County): Effective June 1 until further
notice, closed from mouth to marker at outfall of WDFW rearing
channel.
Hoh River (Jefferson County): Trout: effective May 16
through May 31 from mouth to Willoughby Creek, open Wednesday
through Sunday of each week with a daily limit of 2 hatchery
steelhead only.
Hoh River South Fork (Jefferson County): outside Olympic
National Park: Effective June 1 until further notice,
selective gear rules are in effect.
Johns River, including North and South forks (Grays Harbor
County): Effective June 1 until further notice, closed
upstream of Ballon Creek.
McAllister Creek (Thurston County): July 1 until further
notice, salmon daily limit: 6 fish of which no more than 4
may be adult salmon.
Nooksack River (Whatcom County): from Lummi Indian
Reservation boundary to Mount Baker High School bus barn at
Deming: Salmon: Open August 1 until further notice, in
mainstem from Lummi Indian Reservation boundary to Guide
Meridian Bridge, daily limit 2 pink salmon only. Selective
gear rules, except fishing from boats equipped with motor
allowed.
Puyallup River (Pierce County): Effective August 1 until
further notice, salmon daily limit of 6 fish of which no more
than 2 may be adult salmon. Lawful to retain pink salmon.
Quillayute River, outside Olympic National Park (Clallam
County):
1) Trout: Effective immediately through May 31, open with a daily limit of 2 hatchery steelhead only.
2) Salmon: effective immediately until further notice, daily limit 6 fish of which no more than 2 may be adult salmon, release wild adult chinook and wild adult coho. It is lawful to retain within the quantities prescribed in the daily limit, hatchery chinook salmon identified by either an adipose fin clip or a ventral fin clip and having a healed scar at the site of the missing fin.
Skagit River (Skagit/Whatcom counties):
1) Effective June 1 through June 15, open to trout fishing in waters between a line 200 feet above the east bank of the Baker River to a line 200 feet below the west bank of the Baker River. Trout minimum length fourteen inches. Legal to retain Dolly Varden/bull trout as part of trout daily limit, minimum length twenty inches.
2) Effective July 1 through July 31, open for salmon from the Dalles Bridge at Concrete to a line projected across the river at a point 200' upstream of the east bank of the Baker River. Daily limit 2 sockeye only.
Skykomish River (Snohomish County): Beginning June 1 until
further notice, from Lewis Street Bridge in Monroe to Wallace
River, night closure and non-buoyant lure restriction in
effect.
Sol Duc River (Clallam County):
1) Effective immediately until further notice, from mouth to concrete pump station at Sol Duc Hatchery, salmon daily limit 6 fish of which no more than 2 may be adult salmon, release wild adult chinook and wild adult coho. It is lawful to retain within the quantities prescribed in the daily limit, hatchery chinook salmon identified by either an adipose fin clip or a ventral fin clip and having a healed scar at the site of the missing fin.
2) Effective immediately through May 31 from mouth to concrete pump station at Sol Duc Hatchery, open to trout fishing with a daily limit of 2 hatchery steelhead only.
3) Beginning June 1 until further notice, from Highway 101 Bridge downstream of Snider Creek to Olympic National Park boundary, selective gear rules are in effect.
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The following section of the Washington Administrative Code is repealed effective immediately:
| WAC 232-28-61900Y | Exceptions to statewide rules -- 2003 North of Falcon. (03-84) |
| WAC 232-28-61900A | Exceptions to statewide rules -- 2003 North of Falcon. |