EMERGENCY RULES
FISH AND WILDLIFE
Date of Adoption: August 15, 2000.
Purpose: Amend personal use rules.
Citation of Existing Rules Affected by this Order: Repealing WAC 220-56-19100L; and amending WAC 220-56-191.
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: Following conclusion of the North of Falcon planning process, tribal managers requested that the department modify adopted regulations for recreational fishing inside Elliott Bay for the period August 16-31 to be contingent upon in-season assessment of returning chinook salmon. Information for in-season management of this fishery will not be available prior to August 16, so the fishery will be closed until further notice. 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Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's Own Initiative: New 1, Amended 0, Repealed 1.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted Using Negotiated Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Pilot Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.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: August 16, 2000, 12:01 a.m.
August 15, 2000
Evan Jacoby
for Jeff P. Koenings
Director
Notwithstanding the provisions of WAC 220-56-191, effective 12:01 a.m. August 16, 2000 until further notice it is unlawful to fish for or possess salmon taken for personal use from Catch Record Card Areas 5 through 13 except as provided for in this section:
In all fisheries provided for in this section the minimum size for chinook is 22 inches and there is no minimum size for other salmon.
Areas 5 and 6 - Open until further notice. Daily limit 2 salmon, except release chinook, chum and wild coho.
Area 7 - Open until further notice. Daily limit 2 salmon, not more than one of which may be a chinook salmon, except August 16 until further notice in Bellingham Bay and adjacent waters described in WAC 220-56-195(1) daily limit 4 salmon not more than one of which may be a chinook salmon, except closed in Samish Bay south of a line due east from Fish Point until further notice.
Areas 8-1 and 8-2 - Closed until further notice, except Tulalip Bay waters described in WAC 220-56-191 (4)(b) open until further notice each Friday through 11:59 a.m. the following Monday, daily limit 2 salmon not more than one of which may be a chinook.
Area 9 - Closed until further notice except when fishing from the Edmonds Public Fishing pier, daily limit 2 salmon not more than one of which may be a chinook salmon.
Area 10 - Open until further notice. Daily limit 2 salmon, except release chinook salmon, except:
(a) Waters of Elliott Bay east of a line from West Point to Alki Point are closed to salmon angling except as provided in subsection (e).
(b) Effective immediately until further notice Shilshole Bay east of a line from Meadow Point to West Point is closed.
(c) Effective immediately until further notice in Sinclair Inlet and Port Orchard south of the Manette Bridge, south of a line projected true west from Battle Point and west of a line projected true south from Point White the daily limit may contain up to two chinook.
(d) Effective immediately until further notice waters east of a line from Point Wells to Meadow Point are closed.
(e) Fishing from the Elliott Bay and Seacrest Public Fishing Pier is allowed until further notice, daily limit 2 salmon not more than one of which may be a chinook.
Area 11 - Open until further notice. Daily limit 2 salmon not more than one of which may be a chinook salmon.
Area 12 - Open until further notice south of Ayock Point. Daily limit 2 salmon not more than one of which may be a chinook salmon. Release chum salmon. Open August 16 until further notice in waters north of a true east line from Point Whitney to the Toandos Peninsula. Daily limit 4 salmon, release chinook and chum. The Hoodsport Hatchery fishery is managed separately under WAC 220-56-124.
Area 13 - Open until further notice. Daily limit 2 salmon, release wild coho. While fishing from the Fox Island Public Fishing Pier, daily limit 2 salmon not more than one of which may be a chinook, and release wild coho.
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The following section of the Washington Administrative Code is repealed effective 12:01 a.m. August 16, 2000:
| WAC 220-56-19100L | Puget Sound salmon seasons. (00-58) |