PREPROPOSAL STATEMENT OF INQUIRY
FISH AND WILDLIFE
Subject of Possible Rule Making: Definition of extenuating circumstances in the coastal crab fishery.
Statutes Authorizing the Agency to Adopt Rules on this Subject: RCW 77.12.047.
Reasons Why Rules on this Subject may be Needed and What They Might Accomplish: The legislature has passed a bill that requires the department to consider extenuating circumstances in the assigning of crab pot limits to individual fishers. The department will review the circumstances particular to this fishery and determine what factors are extenuating.
Other Federal and State Agencies that Regulate this Subject and the Process Coordinating the Rule with These Agencies: None.
Process for Developing New Rule: Agency study.
Interested parties can participate in the decision to adopt the new rule and formulation of the proposed rule before publication by contacting Phil Anderson, Special Assistant Director for Intergovernmental Programs, 600 Capitol Way, Olympia, WA 98501-1091, phone (360) 902-2720. Contact by July 31, 2001, expected proposal filing August 1, 2001.
June 5, 2001
Evan Jacoby
Rules Coordinator