EMERGENCY RULES
FISH AND WILDLIFE
Date of Adoption: September 28, 2001.
Purpose: Amend commercial fishing rules.
Citation of Existing Rules Affected by this Order: Repealing WAC 220-52-04600R; and amending WAC 220-52-046.
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: Closures are necessary to protect soft-shelled crab. 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Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's Own Initiative: New 1, Amended 0, Repealed 1.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.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Repealed 0;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Repealed 0;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Repealed 0.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:
October 1, 2001, 12:01 a.m.
September 28, 2001
Evan Jacoby
for Jeff Koenings
Director
(1) It will be lawful to fish for Dungeness Crab for commercial purposes as follows:
(a) Effective 12:01 a.m. October 1, 2001 until further notice, commercial crab harvest is allowed in those waters of Marine Fish-Shellfish Management and Catch Reporting Area 26A within a line that extends due north from the green number 1 buoy at Scatchet Head to Scatchet Head, thence from the green number 1 buoy at Scatchet Head to the green number 1 buoy at Possession Point, thence due north from the green number 1 buoy at Possession Point to Possession Point.
(b) Effective 12:01 a.m. October 16, 2001 until further notice, commercial crab harvest is allowed in those waters of 26A north and east of a line from the south end of the Double Bluff State Park seawall (471 58.782@N, 1221 30.84=W) projected 1101 true to the boulder on shore (471 57.690=N, 1221 26.742=W).
(2) Effective 12:01 a.m. October 1, 2001 until further notice, commercial harvest will be closed in those waters of Marine Fish-Shellfish Management and Catch Reporting Areas 26A, north of a line that extends from Possession Point to the shipwreck, and all waters of 24B.
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The following section of the Washington Administrative Code is repealed effective 12:01 a.m. October 1, 2001:
| WAC 220-52-04600R | Crab fishery -- Seasons and areas.. (01-206) |
Reviser's note: The typographical error in the above section occurred in the copy filed by the agency and appears in the Register pursuant to the requirements of RCW 34.08.040.