EMERGENCY RULES
FISH AND WILDLIFE
Effective Date of Rule: June 21, 2008, 12:01 a.m.
Purpose: Amend personal use fishing rules.
Citation of Existing Rules Affected by this Order: Repealing WAC 232-28-62000N; 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: Sufficient chinook remain on the quotas to allow liberalization to two chinook per day in Marine Areas 1, 2, 3, and 4. 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Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's Own Initiative: New 1, Amended 0, Repealed 1.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted Using Negotiated Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Pilot Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Date Adopted: June 20, 2008.
J. P. Koenings
Director
(1) Area 1:
(a) Open immediately through June 28, daily limit 2 salmon, release all salmon except Chinook.
(b) Open June 29 until further notice: open Sunday through Thursday of each week, daily limit 2 salmon, except release wild coho.
(2) Areas 2, 2-1, and 2-2:
(a) Area 2:
(i) Open immediately through June 28: open Sunday through Thursday of each week, daily limit 2 salmon, release all salmon except Chinook.
(ii) Open June 29 until further notice: open Sunday through Thursday of each week, daily limit 2 salmon, except release wild coho.
(b) Area 2-1:
(i) Open July 1 through July 31: open Sunday through Thursday of each week, daily limit 2 salmon, except release wild coho.
(ii) Open August 1 through August 15: daily limit 6 salmon, not more than two of which may be adult salmon.
(iii) Open August 16 until further notice, daily limit 6 salmon, not more than three of which may be adult salmon, of which only 2 may be Chinook.
(c) Area 2-2 west of the Buoy 13 line: closed.
(d) Those waters within a line from the lighthouse 1 mile south of the south jetty to Buoy No. 2, then to Buoy No. 3, then to the tip of the north jetty, then to the exposed end of the south jetty, are closed August 1 until further notice.
(3) Area 3:
(a) Open immediately through June 28: open Tuesdays through Saturday of each week, daily limit 2 salmon, release all salmon except Chinook.
(b) Open July 1 until further notice: open Tuesday through Saturday of each week, daily limit 2 salmon, except release wild coho.
(4) Area 4:
(a) Open immediately through June 28: open Tuesdays through Saturday of each week, daily limit 2 salmon, release all salmon except Chinook. Closed to salmon angling east of a true north/south line through Sail Rock.
(b) Open July 1 until further notice, with the following area rules, limits, and species restrictions: open Tuesday through Saturday of each week, daily limit 2 salmon, except release wild coho.
(i) Effective July 1 through July 31, closed to salmon angling east of a true north/south line through Sail Rock.
(ii) Effective beginning August 1, release Chinook east of the Bonilla-Tatoosh Line.
(iii) Effective beginning August 1, release chum.
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The following section of the Washington Administrative
Code is repealed, effective 12:01 a.m. June 21, 2008:
| WAC 232-28-62000N | Coastal salmon seasons -- 2008 North of Falcon. (08-91) |