EMERGENCY RULES
FISH AND WILDLIFE
Date of Adoption: December 17, 1999.
Purpose: Personal use rules.
Citation of Existing Rules Affected by this Order: Repealing WAC 220-57-17500S and 220-57-17500T; and amending WAC 220-57-175.
Statutory Authority for Adoption: RCW 75.08.080.
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: Cowlitz River coho and early winter steelhead hatchery returns are sufficient to open additional fishing area to harvest surplus hatchery fish below the barrier dam. 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Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's Own Initiative: New 1, Amended 0, Repealed 2.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted Using Negotiated Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Pilot Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0. Effective Date of Rule: December 18, 1999, 12:01 a.m.
December 17, 1999
Jeff P. Koenings
Director
by Larry Peck
Notwithstanding the provisions of WAC 220-57-175, effective 12:01 a.m. December 18, 1999 through February 29, 2000:
(1) It is lawful to fish up to four hundred feet or the posted deadline at the barrier dam;
(2) Through December 31, 1999 from mouth to 400 feet or the posted deadline below the barrier dam, daily limit 6 salmon no more than 4 adults except release chum and wild coho. Only one adult chinook per day. From Mill Creek to Blue Creek, release chinook over 28 inches in length.
(3) From January 1, 2000 through February 29, 2000, from mouth upstream to 400 feet or posted deadline below the barrier dam, daily limit 6 salmon no more than 2 adults except release chum and wild coho.
(4) Salmon angling from boats is prohibited the entire year in designated open waters between the barrier dam and a line from the mouth of Mill Creek to the opposite shore.
(5) From the confluence of the Muddy Fork and Ohanapecosh rivers downstream to Scanewa Lake (Cowlitz Falls Reservoir) during the entire year, Daily Limit A except minimum size of 8 inches and release wild coho salmon.
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The following section of the Washington Administrative Code
is repealed effective 11:59 p.m. December 17, 1999:
| WAC 220-57-17500S | Cowlitz River. (99-175) |
The following section of the Washington Administrative Code is repealed effective 12:01 a.m. March 1, 2000:
| WAC 220-57-17500T | Cowlitz River. |