PREPROPOSAL STATEMENT OF INQUIRY
FISH AND WILDLIFE
Subject of Possible Rule Making: Personal use fishing rules.
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: A need for sturgeon protection exists in the upper Columbia tributaries that were not closed to sturgeon fishing in the recently adopted sport rule package. A change in crawfish harvest rules will allow fishing at night and expand recreational opportunity. Kalama hatchery steelhead need to be released to determine the possibility of using hatchery stock in natural spawning. A breach in the earthen dam at the No. 2 powerhouse on the Lewis River Power Canal warrants closure of part of the Power Canal and the old Lewis River streambed.
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 Lew Atkins, Fish Program Assistant Director, 600 Capitol Way North, Olympia, WA 98501-1091, (360) 902-2651. Contact by July 3, 2002, expected proposal filing July 5, 2002.
May 22, 2002
Evan Jacoby
Rules Coordinator