EMERGENCY RULES
FISH AND WILDLIFE
Date of Adoption: May 6, 2004.
Purpose: Amend personal use fishing rules.
Citation of Existing Rules Affected by this Order: Repealing WAC 220-56-32500N; and amending WAC 220-56-325.
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 is needed to ensure an orderly fishery, manage within court-ordered sharing requirements, and to ensure conservation. The state recreational share of spot shrimp has been taken in the areas closed under this rule. 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Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's Own Initiative: New 1, Amended 0, Repealed 1.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.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Repealed 0;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Repealed 0;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Repealed 0.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.
May 6, 2004
J. P. Koenings
Director
1) Effective immediately, the following area shall be defined as a shrimp fishing district: Port Townsend Shrimp District -- All waters of Port Townsend Bay south and west of a line from Marrowstone Point to Point Hudson (including Kilisut Harbor).
2) Effective immediately, until further notice, it is unlawful to fish for or possess shrimp taken for personal use in all waters of the Port Townsend Shrimp District, except as provided for in this section:
(a) All waters of the Port Townsend Shrimp District south of a line from Kala Point to Walan Point are open to the harvest of all shrimp, except Spot shrimp.
(b) It is unlawful to possess spot shrimp and all spot shrimp must immediately be returned to the water unharmed.
3) Effective immediately, until further notice, it is unlawful to fish for or possess shrimp taken for personal use in all waters of Marine Area 11.
4) Effective immediately, until further notice, it is unlawful to fish for or possess shrimp taken for personal use in all waters of Marine Area 10.
5) Effective immediately, until further notice, it is unlawful to fish for or possess shrimp taken for personal use in all waters of Marine Areas 8-1, 8-2 and Marine Area 9 outside of the Port Townsend Shrimp District, except as provided for in this section:
(a) Effective 5:00 a.m. through 9:00 p.m., Friday, May 14, 2004, open to the harvest of all shrimp harvest of all shrimp species.
6) It is unlawful to fish for or possess shrimp from those waters of Marine Area 12 (Hood Canal) south of the Hood Canal floating bridge except as provided for in this section:
(a) Fishing for shrimp is allowed between 9:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. on the following dates: May 15, 19, 22, and 26, 2004.
(b) No shrimp fishers may set gear before 9:00 a.m. or leave shrimp fishing gear in the water after 1:00 p.m. each day of the fishery.
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The following section of the Washington Administrative Code is repealed:
| WAC 220-56-32500N | Shrimp -- Areas and seasons (04-90) |