RCW 77.50.010 Limitations on commercial fishing for salmon in Puget Sound waters. (1) The commission may authorize commercial fishing for sockeye salmon within the waters described in subsection (2) of this section only during the period June 10th to July 25th and for other salmon only from the second Monday of September through November 30th, […]
RCW 77.50.020 Limitations on commercial fishing for chinook or coho salmon in Pacific Ocean and Straits of Juan de Fuca. (1) The commission may authorize commercial fishing for coho salmon in the Pacific Ocean and the Straits of Juan de Fuca only from June 16th through October 31st. (2) The commission may authorize commercial fishing […]
RCW 77.50.030 Salmon fishing gear. (1) A person shall not use, operate, or maintain a gill net which exceeds one thousand five hundred feet in length or a drag seine in the waters of the Columbia river for catching salmon. (2) A person shall not construct, install, use, operate, or maintain within state waters a […]
RCW 77.50.040 Commercial net fishing for salmon in tributaries of Columbia river—Boundaries defined. (1) The commission shall adopt rules defining geographical boundaries of the following Columbia river tributaries and sloughs: (a) Washougal river; (b) Camas slough; (c) Lewis river; (d) Kalama river; (e) Cowlitz river; (f) Elokomin river; (g) Elokomin sloughs; (h) Skamokawa sloughs; (i) […]
RCW 77.50.050 Reef net salmon fishing gear—Reef net areas specified. The commission shall not authorize use of reef net fishing gear except in the reef net areas described in this section. (1) Point Roberts reef net fishing area includes those waters within 250 feet on each side of a line projected 129° true from a […]
RCW 77.50.060 Unauthorized fishing vessels entering state waters. In order to protect the welfare of the citizens of the state of Washington by protecting the natural resources of the state from illegal fishing in state waters, commercial fishing vessels which are not authorized by law to fish for salmon in Washington state waters cannot enter […]
RCW 77.50.070 Limitation on salmon fishing gear in Pacific Ocean. (1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, the commission shall not authorize gear other than troll gear or angling gear for taking salmon within the offshore waters or the waters of the Pacific Ocean over which the state has jurisdiction lying west […]
RCW 77.50.080 Possession or transportation in Pacific Ocean of salmon taken by other than troll lines or angling gear. Within the waters described in RCW 77.50.070, a person shall not transport or possess salmon on board a vessel carrying fishing gear of a type other than troll lines or angling gear, unless accompanied by a […]
RCW 77.50.090 Bottom trawling not authorized—Areas specified. The commission shall not authorize commercial bottom trawling for food fish and shellfish in all areas of Hood Canal south of a line projected from Tala Point to Foulweather Bluff and in Puget Sound south of a line projected from Foulweather Bluff to Double Bluff and including all […]
RCW 77.50.100 Hood Canal shrimp—Limitation on number of shrimp pots. The commission shall not authorize any commercial fisher to use more than fifty shrimp pots while commercially fishing for shrimp in that portion of Hood Canal lying south of the Hood Canal floating bridge. [ 1998 c 190 § 83; 1993 c 340 § 50; […]
RCW 77.50.110 Commercial salmon fishing—Unauthorized gear. The commission shall not authorize angling gear or other personal use gear for commercial salmon fishing. [ 1998 c 190 § 84; 1996 c 267 § 24; 1983 1st ex.s. c 46 § 69; 1969 ex.s. c 23 § 1. Formerly RCW 75.12.650.] NOTES: Intent—Effective date—1996 c 267: See […]
RCW 77.50.120 Maintaining consistent salmon harvest levels. It is the intent of the legislature to ensure that a sustainable level of salmon is made available for harvest for commercial fishers in the state. Maintaining consistent harvest levels has become increasingly difficult with the listing of salmonid species under the federal endangered species act. Without a […]
