EMERGENCY RULES
FISH AND WILDLIFE
Date of Adoption: April 25, 2003.
Purpose: Amend personal use rules.
Citation of Existing Rules Affected by this Order: 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: This regulation allows anglers to retain early returning hatchery summer run steelhead caught during the existing hatchery spring chinook 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Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's Own Initiative: New 1, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.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Repealed 0;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Repealed 0;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Repealed 0.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:
April 26, 2003.
April 25, 2003
J. P. Koenings
Director
by Larry Peck
(1) Effective April 26 through May 31, 2003, in those waters of the Green River from the mouth to 400 feet below water intake at upper end of salmon hatchery, special daily limit of eight fish, six salmon of which no more than two may be adults and two hatchery steelhead. Release wild chinook. Minimum size for salmon is 12 inches and 20 inches for steelhead.
(2) Release wild coho and chum salmon beginning August 1, 2003.
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