All waters, embayments, sloughs, tidelands, shellfish handling facilities and equipment within the following are designated as European Green Crab Restricted Shellfish Areas:
(1) Coastal waters: From west of a line projected true north-south through Buoy 10 located between the north and south jetties at the mouth of the Columbia River, northward to the Bonilla-Tatoosh line as defined in WAC
220-300-360;
(2) Lower Columbia River: That area within the state of Washington from the Astoria-Megler Bridge west to a line projected true north-south through Buoy 10 located between the north and south jetties at the mouth of the Columbia River.
(3) Willapa Bay: Easterly of a line projected from the most northern tip of Leadbetter Point true north to Cape Shoalwater.
(4) Grays Harbor: Easterly of a line projected from the outermost end of the north jetty of Grays Harbor to the outermost end of the south jetty of Grays Harbor.
(5) Puget Sound: All Washington waters eastward from the Bonilla-Tatoosh line as defined in WAC
220-300-360 and southward from the International Boundary at 49° north latitude to a line drawn between Tala Point, Foulweather Bluff, and Double Bluff on Whidbey Island, excluding the waters to the east of Whidbey Island (defined as all waters east of the Deception Pass Bridge and north of a line from the southern tip of Possession Point (47.9061°, -122.3846°) to the shipwreck located 0.8 nautical miles north of Picnic Point (47.8931°, -122.3286°) on the opposite shore).
(6) Hood Canal: South of a line drawn between Foulweather Bluff and Tala Point.
[Statutory Authority: RCW
77.04.012,
77.04.013,
77.04.020,
77.12.047,
77.04.055, and
77.12.455. WSR 23-06-065 (Order 23-34), § 220-340-170, filed 2/28/23, effective 3/31/23. Statutory Authority: RCW
77.04.012,
77.04.013,
77.04.020,
77.04.055, and
77.12.047. WSR 17-05-112 (Order 17-04), recodified as § 220-340-170, filed 2/15/17, effective 3/18/17. Statutory Authority: RCW
77.12.047. WSR 03-10-041 (Order 03-86), § 220-72-086, filed 4/30/03, effective 5/31/03.]