WSR 23-03-118
AGENDA
DEPARTMENT OF
FISH AND WILDLIFE
[Filed January 18, 2023, 9:38 a.m.]
SEMI-ANNUAL RULES DEVELOPMENTAGENDA
January - June 2023
WAC
Rule Title or Subject
Agency Contact
Tentative Timeline
 
 
 
 
 
CR-101
CR-102
CR-105
CR-103
Short Description
220-500
Collection of wildlife parts
Scott Bird Scott.bird@dfw.wa.gov
August 1, 2021
 
 
Amend rules to prohibit the collection of shed animal parts on Washington department of fish and wildlife (WDFW) lands or public lands.
Title 220
Consolidating hearing rules into one chapter
Scott Bird Scott.bird@dfw.wa.gov
January 23, 2019
 
 
To better inform the public and satisfy the requirements of the Administrative Procedure Act under chapter 34.05 RCW, WDFW needs to consolidate and clarify its administrative hearing rules into one chapter.
220-200-100 and 220-610-010
Periodic status review: Columbia white tailed deer and Cascade red fox
Heather Bonagofski Heather.bonagofski@dfw.wa.gov
August 30, 2022
December 20, 2022
~February 2023
Reclassify the Columbian white-tailed deer to sensitive or threatened. Classify the Cascade red fox as endangered.
220-200-100 and 220-610-010
Periodic status review: White Pelican
Heather Bonagofski Heather.bonagofski@dfw.wa.gov
January 2023
~March 2023
 
Reclassify the white pelican to sensitive.
220-415
2023 Hunting season
Heather Bonagofski Heather.bonagofski@dfw.wa.gov
November 29, 2022
February 15, 2023
April 2023
WDFW is considering rule changes for annual hunting regulations. This year's rule-making decision has been delegated to the director.
Title 220
Fish passage
Gabrielle Stilwater Gabrielle.stilwater@dfw.wa.gov
June 17,
2020
~April 2023
~June 2023
Implement the Fishways, flow, and screening statute (chapter 77.57 RCW), and 2019 ESHB 1109 (chapter 415, Laws of 2019).
220-220-010, 220-220-020, 220-310-020, 220-413-020, 220-413-100, 220-416-060
WDFW mobile licensing and catch cards
Kelly Henderson
Kelly.Henderson@dfw.wa.gov
January 12, 2023
~March 2023
April 2023
Revisions will clarify the process for possession and compliance with licensing and harvest reporting requirements through the use of both paper or electronic mobile documentation.
220-660-050
Fish habitat enhancement project hydraulic project approvals (HPA)
Theresa Nation theresa.nation@dfw.wa.gov
 
February 2023
April 2023
Amendments to incorporate SSB 5381 regarding HPA permitting of fish habitat enhancement projects.
220-358-060
Commercial eulachon fishing
Kelly Henderson
Kelly.Henderson@dfw.wa.gov
August 2, 2022
October 19, 2022
February 2023
Amend commercial eulachon fishing regulations.
220-330-110, 220-330-140, 220-340-130, 220-340-170
Recreational clam and oyster seasons (2023); updates to oyster drill and European green crab restricted areas
Camille Speck
Camille.Speck@dfw.wa.gov
Chris Eardley
Christopher.Eardley@dfw.wa.gov
October or early November 2022
January 18, 2023
~March 2023
Amend recreational clam and oyster seasons and oyster drill and European green crab restricted areas (both delegated for director's approval).
220-352-245
Guide logbook
Kelly Henderson
Kelly.Henderson@dfw.wa.gov
August 2, 2022
October 19, 2022
February 2023
Amend rules regarding reporting requirements for freshwater game fish guide.
220-314-020
Coastal recreational bottomfish 2023
Lorna Wargo
Lorna.Wargo@dfw.wa.gov
 
~January 2023
~March 2023
Amend rules affecting the coastal recreational bottomfish fishery so that it is consistent with regulations adopted by the Pacific Fishery Management Council.
220-340-430 and 220-330-020
Coastal Dungeness crab line marking and electronic monitoring
Heather Hall
heather.hall@dfw.wa.gov
May 3, 2023
June 21, 2023
October 9, 2023
Amend rules regarding line marking requirements for the coastal commercial Dungeness crab fishery and require electronic monitoring components be operational on all coastal commercial crab vessels. Amend rules to allow experimental gear testing in the coastal recreational Dungeness crab fishery when authorized under a permit issued by the director.
220-353-050
Commercial fixed gear rockfish landings condition
Whitney Roberts
Whitney.Roberts@dfw.wa.gov
December 7, 2022
~February 2023
~March 2023
Amend rule to add certain bottomfish to the list of commercially taken species that are permitted to be possessed, transported through the waters of the state, and landed in the dressed condition.
220-200-160, 220-200-170, 220-200-180, 220-200-190
Special use permits
Katherine Waldrop katherine.waldrop@dfw.wa.gov
May 3, 2022
~February 2023
~March 2023 under director
Amendments to existing rules and establishing new rules associated with program modifications and accessibility permits for hunters and fishers with disabilities.
220-450
Dog aversion training
Heather Bonagofski Heather.bonagofski@dfw.wa.go[v]
December 8, 2020
HOLD
 
Rule changes to govern the for-profit use of specific wildlife species for dog aversion training.
200-500
Recreational easements on private land
Heather Bonagofski Heather.bonagofski@dfw.wa.gov
August 30, 2022
January 18, 2023
~March 2023
Director decision scheduled for February.
220-440-210
Black bear timber damage depredation permits
Heather Bonagofski Heather.bonagofski@dfw.wa.gov
February 28, 2019
 
 
Holding until the small business economic impact statement has been contracted and finished.
220-370
Amend aquaculture regulations
Kelly Henderson
Kelly.Henderson@dfw.wa.gov
March 30, 2018
 
 
 
220-610-010 and 220-200-100
Periodic status review, gray wolf
Julia Smith
julia.smith@dfw.wa.gov
October 1, 2018
~May 2023
 
Periodic status review for the gray wolf.
220-354
North of Falcon coastal commercial fisheries
Kelly Henderson
Kelly.Henderson@dfw.wa.gov
January 10, 2023
~May 2023
~June 2023
Amendments resulting from stakeholder recommendations made during the 2023 North of Falcon process.
220-354
North of Falcon Puget Sound commercial fisheries
Kelly Henderson
Kelly.Henderson@dfw.wa.gov
January 10, 2023
~May 2023
~June 2023
Amendments resulting from stakeholder recommendations made during the 2023 North of Falcon process.
220-312 and 220-313
North of Falcon recreational fisheries
Kelly Henderson
Kelly.Henderson@dfw.wa.gov
January 10, 2023
~May 2023
~June 2023
Amendments resulting from stakeholder recommendations made during the 2023 North of Falcon process.