EMERGENCY RULES
FISH AND WILDLIFE
Date of Adoption: August 26, 2003.
Purpose: Amend personal use fishing rules.
Citation of Existing Rules Affected by this Order: Repealing WAC 232-28-62000M; and amending WAC 232-28-620.
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 interim until permanent rules take effect.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's Own Initiative: New 1, Amended 0, Repealed 1.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.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Repealed 0;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Repealed 0;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Repealed 0.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:
Immediately.
August 26, 2003
Evan Jacoby
for Jeff Koenings
Director
(1) Area 1 - Open immediately through September 30 - Daily limit 2 salmon, not more than 1 of which may be a chinook, except release wild coho. Minimize size for chinook salmon is 26 inches in length.
(2) Area 2 - Open immediately through September 14 - Daily limit 2 salmon, not more than 1 of which may be a chinook, except release wild coho. Minimize size for chinook salmon is 26 inches in length.
(a) Those waters of Grays Harbor Control Zone are closed - An area at the entrance to Grays Harbor bounded by a line from the lighthouse 1 mile south of the south jetty to buoy #2 to buoy #3 to the tip of the north jetty to the tip of the exposed end of the south jetty.
(3) Area 2-1 - Open immediately until further notice - Daily limit 6 salmon, no more than 2 adults may be retained. Minimum size limit 12 inches in length. Single point barbless hooks required.
(4) Area 2-2 - Open east of the Buoy 13 line September 16 through November 30 - Daily limit 6 salmon, not more than 2 of which may be adult salmon, except release adult chinook.
(5) Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, Westport Boat Basin and Ocean Shore Boat Basin are open immediately until further notice - Daily limit 6 salmon, not more than 4 of which may be adult salmon. Minimize size is 12 inches in length.
(6) Area 3:
(a) Open immediately through September 14 - Daily limit 2 salmon not more than one of which may be a chinook plus fishers may retain an additional third salmon if it is a pink salmon. Release wild coho. Minimize size for chinook salmon is 26 inches in length.
(b) Waters inside a line from Teahwhit Head to "Q" Buoy then to Cake Rock then east to shore only Open September 20 through October 5 - Daily limit 2 salmon not more than one of which may be a chinook salmon. Release wild coho. Minimize size for chinook salmon is 26 inches in length.
(7) Area 4 - Open immediately through September 14 - except closed south of a line from Kydaka Point westerly to Shipwreck Point. Daily limit 2 salmon not more than one of which may be a chinook plus fishers may retain an additional third salmon if it is a pink salmon. Release chinook salmon caught east of the Bonilla-Tatoosh Line. Release chum salmon and wild coho salmon. Minimize size for chinook salmon is 26 inches in length.
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Reviser's note: The typographical errors in the above section occurred in the copy filed by the agency and appear in the Register pursuant to the requirements of RCW 34.08.040.
REPEALER
The following section of the Washington Administrative Code is repealed:
| WAC 232-28-62000M | Coastal salmon seasons. (03-204) |