WSR 19-08-012
EMERGENCY RULES
DEPARTMENT OF
FISH AND WILDLIFE
[Order 19-46—Filed March 21, 2019, 3:29 p.m., effective April 1, 2019]
Effective Date of Rule: April 1, 2019.
Purpose: Amend recreational fishing rules for Klickitat and Wind rivers.
Citation of Rules Affected by this Order: Repealing WAC 220-312-03000K; and amending WAC 220-312-030.
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 rule is needed to reduce the adult salmon daily limits for the Klickitat and Wind rivers. Low numbers of adult spring Chinook are forecast to return to these rivers. Lowered daily limits are needed to increase the likelihood that hatchery Chinook broodstock goals are met. There is insufficient time to adopt 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Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted at the Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's own Initiative: New 1, Amended 0, Repealed 1.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted using Negotiated Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Pilot Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.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: March 21, 2019.
Kelly Susewind
Director
NEW SECTION
WAC 220-312-03000LSouthwest—Freshwater exceptions to statewide rules.
Notwithstanding the provisions of WAC 220-312-030,effective April 1, 2019 until further notice:
1) Cispus River (Lewis Co.): Salmon: closed.
2) Cowlitz Falls Reservoir (Lake Scanewa) (Lewis Co.): Salmon: closed.
3) Cowlitz River (Cowlitz Co.): Salmon: closed.
4) Kalama River (Cowlitz Co.): From the mouth upstream to 1000 feet below the fishway at the upper salmon hatchery: Salmon: Daily limit 6; no more than 1 adult may be retained. Release all salmon other than hatchery Chinook and hatchery coho.
5) Klickitat River (Klickitat Co.):
(a) From the mouth (Burlington Northern Railroad bridge) to Fisher Hill Bridge, effective immediately until further notice:
(i) Salmon and steelhead; effective April 1 through May 24, 2019:
(A) Open Mondays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays only.
(B) Daily limit 2; no more than 1 may be an adult salmon: Release wild Chinook and wild steelhead.
(ii) Salmon; effective May 25, 2019 until further notice: Daily limit 6; no more than 1 adult may be retained: Release wild Chinook.
(b) From 400 feet upstream of #5 fishway to boundary markers below Klickitat Salmon Hatchery, effective May 25, 2019 until further notice: Salmon: Daily limit 6; no more than 1 adult may be retained: Release wild Chinook.
6) Lewis River (Clark/Cowlitz Co.): Salmon: closed.
7) Wind River (Skamania Co.):
(a) From the mouth to 400 feet downstream of Shipherd Falls fish ladder, effective April 1, 2019 until further notice: Salmon and steelhead: Daily limit 6; no more than 2 hatchery steelhead, or 1 hatchery steelhead and 1 adult salmon may be retained: Release wild Chinook, wild coho, and wild steelhead.
From 100 feet upstream of Shipherd Falls to 800 yards downstream of Carson National Fish Hatchery, effective May 1, 2019 until further notice: Daily limit 6; no more than 2 hatchery steelhead, or 1 hatchery steelhead and 1 adult salmon may be retained: Release wild Chinook, wild coho, and wild steelhead.
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.
REPEALER
The following section of the Washington Administrative Code is repealed immediately:
WAC 220-312-03000K | Southwest—Freshwater exceptions to statewide rules. (19-32) |