EMERGENCY RULES
FISH AND WILDLIFE
Date of Adoption: August 13, 2003.
Purpose: Amend personal use fishing rules.
Citation of Existing Rules Affected by this Order: Repealing WAC 220-56-33000F; and amending WAC 220-56-330.
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 keeps the southern portion of Marine Area 8-2 closed, south of a line from Camano Head to Sandy Point and the north portion of Marine Area 8-2 and all of Marine Area 8-1 on September 2, 2003, to maintain quota targets for these areas. Hard shell criteria have been met in the north part of Marine Area 7 to allow recreational crab harvest. 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Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's Own Initiative: New 1, Amended 0, Repealed 1.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.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Repealed 0;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Repealed 0;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Repealed 0.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:
August 16, 2003, 7:00 a.m.
August 13, 2003
J. P. Koenings
Director
by Larry Peck
1) Effective immediately until 8:00 p.m. September 2, 2003, Fridays through Mondays only, it is lawful to fish for crab for personal use in all waters of Marine Area 8-1 and that portion of Marine Area 8-2 known as Saratoga Passage north of a line that extends from Camano Head on the southern tip of Camano Island southwesterly to Sandy Point on Whidbey Island.
2) Effective immediately, until further notice, it is lawful to fish for crab for personal use in Marine Areas 4 (east of the Bonilla-Tatoosh line), 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13.
3) Effective 7:00 a.m. August 16, 2003 until further notice, it is lawful to fish for crab for personal use in all waters of Marine Area 7.
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The following section of the Washington Administrative Code is repealed effective 7:00 a.m. August 16, 2003:
| WAC 220-56-33000F | Crab -- Areas and seasons. (03-163) |