WSR 14-18-001
EMERGENCY RULES
DEPARTMENT OF
FISH AND WILDLIFE
[Order 14-217Filed August 20, 2014, 3:46 p.m., effective August 22, 2014]
Effective Date of Rule: August 22, 2014.
Purpose: Amend recreational fishing rules.
Citation of Existing Rules Affected by this Order: Repealing WAC 220-310-18500K; and amending WAC 220-310-185.
Statutory Authority for Adoption: RCW 77.04.012, 77.04.020, and 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: There has been [a] strong showing of hatchery summer run steelhead on the Cowlitz. Through mid-August, a total of nearly seven thousand hatchery summer run steelhead have returned to the Cowlitz Salmon Hatchery. Increasing the steelhead daily limit will provide additional angling opportunity. There is insufficient time to adopt 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Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's Own Initiative: New 1, Amended 0, Repealed 1.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted Using Negotiated Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Pilot Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Date Adopted: August 20, 2014.
Joe Stohr
for Philip Anderson
Director
NEW SECTION
WAC 220-310-18500K Exceptions to statewide rulesCowlitz River.
Notwithstanding the provisions of WAC 220-310-185, effective August 22 through October 31, 2014, in those waters of the Cowlitz River from the Highway 4 Bridge at Kelso upstream to Mayfield Dam, a daily limit of three hatchery steelhead applies.
REPEALER
The following section of the Washington Administrative Code is repealed effective November 1, 2014:
WAC 220-310-18500K
Freshwater exceptions to statewide rulesCowlitz River.