EMERGENCY RULES
FISH AND WILDLIFE
Date of Adoption: May 11, 2001.
Purpose: Amend personal use fishing rules.
Citation of Existing Rules Affected by this Order: Repealing WAC 232-28-61900F; 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: This regulation will allow anglers to retain summer chinook jacks and adult sockeye during fisheries targeting hatchery steelhead. An estimated 78,000 upriver bound sockeye are expected to return to the Columbia in 2001. Upper Columbia summer chinook and sockeye are not listed under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Impacts to Snake River stocks, which are listed, are within the allowable impact level authorized by NMFS for these stocks. 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Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's Own Initiative: New 1, Amended 0, Repealed 1.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted Using Negotiated Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Pilot Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.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: May 16, 2001, 12:01 a.m.
May 11, 2001
J. P. Koenings
Director
by Larry Peck
(1) Effective 12:01 a.m. May 16 through 11:59 p.m. July 31, 2001 in those waters of the Columbia River from the I-5 Bridge downstream to the Rocky Point/Tongue Point line any chinook jack or adult sockeye may be retained. The salmon daily limit is six fish of which no more than two may be sockeye. Minimum size is 12 inches in length. Chinook salmon 25 inches or more in length must be released immediately.
(2) Effective 12:01 a.m. June 16 through 11:59 p.m. July 31, 2001, in those waters of the Columbia River from the Highway 395 Bridge at Pasco downstream to the I-5 Bridge any chinook jack or adult sockeye may be retained. The salmon daily limit is six fish of which no more than two may be sockeye. Minimum size is 12 inches in length. Chinook salmon 25 inches or more in length must be released immediately.
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The following section of the Washington Administrative Code is repealed effective 12:01 a.m. August 1, 2001:
| WAC 232-28-61900F | Exceptions to statewide rules -- Columbia River. |