2024 North of Falcon- Recreational Fisheries CR-102
2024 North of Falcon- Recreational Fisheries CR-102
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View the CR-102 Rule Proposal and WAC Text
The proposed rules were developed through the annual North of Falcon salmon season setting process, which began in January 2024, and provide the season schedule for the 2024 recreational fisheries statewide.
These proposed rules regulate the recreational salmon fisheries statewide and are part of a comprehensive rulemaking package to implement the new 2024-25 salmon seasons for Washington State developed through the broader North of Falcon process pursuant to the Fish and Wildlife Commission’s North of Falcon Policy C-3608 for 2024-2028. As such, the seasons specified in these proposed rules are structured in a coordinated manner intended to provide commercial and recreational fishing opportunities while ensuring conservation requirements and management objectives in federal and state laws and regulations, state/tribal harvest management agreements, and Fish and Wildlife Commission policies are met. Even though drafted as amendments to preceding rules, these new amendments function as a coordinated and unitary fishery package for the 2024-25 fishery season, and thus substantively replace prior years’ recreational salmon fisheries. Comments should be considered with that understanding.
WDFW is proposing specific revisions to these rules to describe the seasons and dates for these fisheries for 2024. However, all of the provisions encompassed within the WACs listed above are available for public review and comment, and WDFW will consider all public comments received on this rulemaking.
Please review the proposed amendments for each WAC by following the links and then provide your comments below.