EMERGENCY RULES
FISH AND WILDLIFE
Date of Adoption: August 29, 2003.
Purpose: Amend personal use fishing rules.
Citation of Existing Rules Affected by this Order: Repealing WAC 232-28-61900V; and 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: These rules are part of the agreed to North of Falcon annual fish management plans. These interim personal use rules are necessary to cover the time period until those permanent rules become effective.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's Own Initiative: New 1, Amended 0, Repealed 1.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.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Repealed 0;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Repealed 0;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Repealed 0.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:
Immediately.
August 29, 2003
Thu Lang Ngo
for Jeff Koenings
Director
Bogachiel River (Clallam County): Mouth to Highway 101 Bridge:
1) Effective immediately until further notice, it is lawful to retain within the quantities prescribed in the daily limit, hatchery chinook salmon identified by either an adipose fin clip or a ventral fin clip and having a healed scar at the site of the missing fin.
2) Effective September 1 until further notice, salmon daily limit: 6 fish of which no more than 3 may be adult salmon, and no more than a total of 2 of the adults may be chinook and wild coho.
Calawah River (Clallam County): Mouth to Highway 101 Bridge:
1) Effective immediately until further notice, it is lawful to retain within the quantities prescribed in the daily limit, hatchery chinook salmon identified by either an adipose fin clip or a ventral fin clip and having a healed scar at the site of the missing fin.
2) Effective September 1 until further notice, salmon daily limit: 6 fish of which no more than 3 may be adult salmon, and no more than a total of 2 of the adults may be chinook and wild coho.
Carbon River (Pierce County): From mouth to Voight Creek:
1) Effective immediately until further notice, single point barbless hooks required.
2) Effective September 1 until further notice, salmon daily limit: 6 fish of which no more than 4 may be adult salmon and of these 4 adults, no more than 2 may be adult hatchery chinook. Release chum salmon. Lawful to retain pink salmon.
Dickey River (Clallam County): Mouth to East Fork Dickey River:
1) Effective immediately until further notice, it is lawful to retain within the quantities prescribed in the daily limit, hatchery chinook salmon identified by either an adipose fin clip or a ventral fin clip and having a healed scar at the site of the missing fin.
2) Effective September 1 until further notice, salmon daily limit: 6 fish of which no more than 3 may be adult salmon, and no more than a total of 2 of the adults may be chinook and wild coho.
Elwha River (Clallam County): Effective immediately until further notice, closed from mouth to marker at outfall of WDFW rearing channel.
Hoh River South Fork (Jefferson County): outside Olympic National Park: Effective immediately until further notice, selective gear rules are in effect.
Johns River, including North and South forks (Grays Harbor County): Effective immediately until further notice, closed upstream of Ballon Creek.
McAllister Creek (Thurston County): Effective immediately until further notice, salmon daily limit: 6 fish of which no more than 4 may be adult salmon.
Nooksack River (Whatcom County): from Lummi Indian Reservation boundary to Mount Baker High School bus barn at Deming:
1) Salmon: open immediately through August 31, 2003, in mainstem from Lummi Indian Reservation boundary to Guide Meridian Bridge, daily limit 2 pink salmon only. Selective gear rules, except fishing from boats equipped with motor allowed.
2) Effective September 1 until further notice, salmon daily limit: 2, release chinook and wild coho.
Puyallup River (Pierce County): Effective immediately until further notice, salmon daily limit: of 6 fish of which no more than 2 may be adult salmon. Lawful to retain pink salmon.
Quillayute River, outside Olympic National Park (Clallam County):
1) Effective immediately until further notice, it is lawful to retain within the quantities prescribed in the daily limit, hatchery chinook salmon identified by either an adipose fin clip or a ventral fin clip and having a healed scar at the site of the missing fin.
2) Effective September 1 until further notice, salmon daily limit: 6 fish of which no more than 3 may be adult salmon, and no more than a total of 2 of the adults may be chinook and wild coho.
Salmon River (Jefferson County): Effective September 1 until further notice, from mouth to Q1000 bridge, salmon daily limit of 6 fish, of which no more than 3 may be adult salmon, and of the adults, no more than 2 may be chinook.
Skagit River (Skagit/Whatcom counties): Effective immediately until further notice, from mouth to mouth of Gilligan Creek, salmon: open with a daily limit of 4 fish, of which only 3 may be coho salmon and only 2 may be chum salmon. Release chinook.
Skykomish River (Snohomish County): Effective September 1 until further notice, from mouth to forks, salmon daily limit: of 4 fish, of which no more than a total of 2 may be coho and chum salmon. Release chinook. Lawful to retain pink salmon.
Snohomish River (Snohomish County): Effective immediately until further notice, salmon: open with a daily limit of 4 fish, of which no more than a total of 2 may be coho and chum salmon. Release chinook. Lawful to retain pink salmon.
Sol Duc River (Clallam County):
1) Effective immediately until further notice, it is lawful to retain within the quantities prescribed in the daily limit, hatchery chinook salmon identified by either an adipose fin clip or a ventral fin clip and having a healed scar at the site of the missing fin.
2) Effective September 1 until further notice, from mouth to concrete pump station at Sol Duc Hatchery, salmon daily limit: 6 fish of which no more than 3 may be adults, and no more than a total of 2 of the adults may be chinook and wild coho.
3) Effective immediately until further notice, from Highway 101 Bridge downstream of Snider Creek to Olympic National Park boundary, selective gear rules are in effect.
Stillaguamish River (Snohomish County): Effective September 1 until further notice, from mouth to forks, salmon: open with a daily limit of 4 fish, of which no more than a total of 2 may be coho and chum salmon. Release chinook.
Willapa River (Pacific County): Effective immediately until further notice, from mouth to Fork Creek, line and weight and lure or bait must be moving (not stationary).
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The following section of the Washington Administrative Code is repealed effective 11:59 p.m. September 6, 2003:
| WAC 232-28-61900V | Exceptions to statewide rules - 2003 North of Falcon. |