PREPROPOSAL STATEMENT OF INQUIRY
FISH AND WILDLIFE
Subject of Possible Rule Making: Duties of commercial purchasers and receivers.
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: Current rule may be overburdensome and needful of additional flexibility. Change would allow the splitting of crab deliveries to different buyers without initial offloading of all product at first receiver.
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 Morris Barker, State Marine Resource Manager, 600 Capitol Way North, Olympia, WA 98501-1091, phone (360) 902-2826. Contact by September 3, 2003. Expected proposal filing date is September 5, 2003.
July 31, 2003
Evan Jacoby
Rules Coordinator