WAC 220-48-029   Set net -- Dogfish -- Seasons.  (1) It is unlawful to take, fish for and possess dogfish and other species of bottomfish taken with dogfish set net gear for commercial purposes in the following Puget Sound Marine Fish-Shellfish Management and Catch Reporting Areas except during the seasons designated below:

     (a) Areas 20A and 20B - November 1 through June 15.

     (b) Area 21A - March 1 through June 15.

     (c) Areas 21B, 22A, 22B, 23A, and 23B - Closed all year.

     (d) Areas 23C and 23D - September 16 through June 15.

     (e) Areas 24A, 24B, and 24D - September 16 through June 15.

     (f) Area 24C - September 16 through June 15, except those waters south of a line projected due east of East Point on Whidbey Island are closed all year.

     (g) Areas 25A, 25B and that portion of Area 25C west of a line from Twin Spits to the Port Gamble Millstack - September 16 through June 15.

     (h) Area 25D and that portion of 25C east of line from Twin Spits to the Port Gamble Millstack - Closed all year.

     (i) Area 25E - Closed all year.

     (j) Area 26A - September 16 through June 15, except those waters southerly and westerly of a line between the ferry dock at Mukilteo and the ferry dock at Clinton are closed all year.

     (k) Area 26B - September 16 through June 15, except those waters provided for in WAC 220-20-020(4) (Shilshole Bay) are closed at all times and those waters west of a line from Point Jefferson to Point Monroe are closed from January 1 to April 15. Those waters west of a line projected 178 degrees true from the end of the Indianola dock to the landfall on the south shore of Port Madison are closed at all times.

     (l) Area 26C - Open April 16 through June 15 and September 16 through December 31, except those waters north of a line projected true east of Point Bolin and those waters west of a line projected 178 degrees true from the end of the Indianola dock to the landfall on the south shore of Port Madison are closed at all times.

     (m) Area 26D - September 16 through June 15, except Quartermaster Harbor and those waters south of lines projected from Dash Point to Point Piner on Maury Island and from Point Dalco true west to the Kitsap Peninsula are closed all year.

     (n) Areas 27A, 27B, and 27C - Closed all year.

     (o) Area 28A - September 16 through June 15, except those waters north of a line projected true east of Fox Point on Fox Island, and east of a line projected due north from the northwest tip of Fox Island are closed all year.

     (p) Areas 28B, 28C, and 28D - September 16 through June 15, except those waters provided for in WAC 220-20-010(6) (upper Carr Inlet).

     (q) Area 29 - September 16 through June 15.

     (2) Incidental catch: It is unlawful to retain any shellfish or fish other than bottomfish.



[Statutory Authority: RCW 77.12.047. 04-17-098 (Order 04-218), § 220-48-029, filed 8/17/04, effective 9/17/04; 03-05-063 (Order 03-27), § 220-48-029, filed 2/18/03, effective 3/21/03. Statutory Authority: RCW 75.08.080. 91-13-051 (Order 91-39), § 220-48-029, filed 6/14/91, effective 7/15/91; 89-14-010 (Order 89-48), § 220-48-029, filed 6/22/89; 84-08-014 (Order 84-24), § 220-48-029, filed 3/27/84; 82-24-080 (Order 82-215), § 220-48-029, filed 12/1/82, effective 1/1/83; 82-14-056 (Order 82-72), § 220-48-029, filed 7/1/82.]