EMERGENCY RULES
FISH AND WILDLIFE
Date of Adoption: September 10, 2003.
Purpose: Amend commercial fishing rules.
Citation of Existing Rules Affected by this Order: Amending WAC 220-20-010 and 220-48-015.
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: We do not anticipate that the catch quota for Pacific cod in Marine Fish-Shellfish Management and Catch Reporting Areas 20A, 20B, 21A, 22A and 22B will be taken by September 15, 2003, when the permanent rule closes the waters deeper than 40 fathoms. This regulation is needed to protect remaining populations of canary and yelloweye rockfish in Puget Sound and is consistent with the recreational regulations. 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Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's Own Initiative: New 2, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.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Repealed 0;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Repealed 0;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Repealed 0.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:
September 15, 2003, 12:01 a.m.
September 10, 2003
J. P. Koenings
Director
by Larry Peck
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Reviser's note: The typographical error in the above section occurred in the copy filed by the agency and appears in the Register pursuant to the requirements of RCW 34.08.040.
NEW SECTION
WAC 220-48-01500S
Beam trawl and bottom trawl -- Seasons.
Notwithstanding the provisions of WAC 220-48-015, effective
12:01 a.m. September 15, 2003 until further notice, it is
lawful to fish for and possess bottomfish taken with bottom
trawl and beam trawl gear in Marine Fish-Shellfish Management
and Catch Reporting Areas 20A, 20B, 21A, 22A and 22B in waters
deeper than 40 fathoms.
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