Purpose: Amend personal use fishing rules.

     Citation of Existing Rules Affected by this Order: Repealing WAC 232-28-62000S and 232-28-62000T; 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: This regulation is necessary to allow more opportunity for the recreational fishers to keep coho salmon while staying within the overall impact allowances. 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     Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.

     Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.

     Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's Own Initiative: New 1, Amended 0, Repealed 2.

     Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.

     Number of Sections Adopted Using Negotiated Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0;      Pilot Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.

     Date Adopted: August 23, 2004.

Jim Lux

for Jeff Koenings

Director

     (1) Area 1 - Open until further notice - Daily limit 2 salmon, except release wild coho.

Minimium size for chinook salmon is 24 inches in length and 16 inches in length for coho.

     (2) Areas 2, 2-1, and 2-2:

     (a) Area 2 - Open until further notice - Daily limit 2 salmon, minimum size for chinook salmon is 24 inches in length and 16 inches in length for coho.

     (b) Area 2-1 - Open immediately until further notice, daily limit 6 salmon, not more than two of which may be adult salmon.

     (c) Area 2-2 west of the Buoy 13 line - Open until further notice - Daily limit 2 salmon..

     (3) Area 3 - Open until further notice - Daily limit 2 salmon, except release wild coho. Minimum size for chinook salmon is 24 inches in length and 16 inches in length for coho.

     (4) Area 4:

     (a) Open until further notice - Daily limit 2 salmon not more than one of which may be a chinook, except release chum and wild coho Release chinook east of the Bonilla-Tatoosh Line. Minimum size for chinook salmon is 26 inches in length and 16 inches in length for coho.

     (5) It is unlawful to land or possess any unmarked coho in Marine Areas 1, 3, and 4. Unmarked coho are those coho with intact adipose and ventral fins.

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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.

     Reviser's note: The spelling 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.
REPEALER

     The following section of the Washington Administrative Code is repealed effective 12:01 a.m. August 29, 2004:

WAC 232-28-62000S

Coastal salmon seasons. (04-211)

     The following section of the Washington Administrative Code is repealed effective 12:01 a.m. September 20, 2004:

WAC 232-28-62000T

Coastal salmon seasons.

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