EMERGENCY RULES
FISH AND WILDLIFE
Date of Adoption: April 25, 2001.
Purpose: Amend personal use fishing rules.
Citation of Existing Rules Affected by this Order: Repealing WAC 232-28-61900B; and amending WAC 232-28-619.
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: The 2001 forecast for upriver spring chinook returning to the Snake River is 206,700, with 29,300 of that total representing wild spring chinook. On April 20, 2001, the combined run size estimate for the Columbia River system was upgraded from a preseason forecast of 364,600 fish, to a midseason forecast of 440,000 fish. There are sufficient numbers of harvestable fish, within allowable impacts to wild fish, to open this Snake River fishery. 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Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's Own Initiative: New 1, Amended 0, Repealed 1.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted Using Negotiated Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Pilot Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0. Effective Date of Rule: May 1, 2001.
April 25, 2001
J. P. Koenings
Director
by Larry Peck
(a) Daily limit of two hatchery chinook salmon, minimum size 12 inches in length.
(b) Night Closure in effect.
(c) Barbless hooks required.
(d) Closed waters - within 400' of the base of any dam; within a 200' radius upstream of the fish ladder exit above Lower Granite Dam; and within an area 1,200' downstream from the base of the west lock gate at Little Goose Dam on the south bank of the Snake River and 100' out into the river from said river bank.
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The following section of the Washington Administrative Code
is repealed effective June 1, 2001:
| WAC 232-28-61900B | Exceptions to statewide rules -- Snake River. |