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Provides a geographic definition of Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife's Pacific coastal "Marine Fish-Shellfish Management and Catch Reporting Areas". WAC 220-22-410 defines areas from the Aleutian Islands to Mexico, but this layer covers only Washington State and the adjacent areas (57 to the north, 61 to the south). There is a counterpart for the Salish Sea defined in WAC 220-22-400.http://apps.leg.wa.gov/WAC/default.aspx?cite=220-22-410WAC 220-22-410Marine Fish-Shellfish Management and Catch Reporting Areas, coastal waters. ???? - Could use the word "Commercial" in the title.(1) Area 50 shall include waters of the Bering Sea north of the Aleutian Islands.(2) Area 51 shall include waters south of the Aleutian Islands and west of longitude 159° W.(3) Area 52 shall include waters west of longitude 154° W and east of Area 51.(4) Area 53 shall include waters west of longitude 147° W and east of Area 52.(5) Area 54 shall include waters west of longitude 137° W and east of Area 53.(6) Area 55 shall include waters north of latitude 54° 40' N and east of Area 54.(7) Area 56 shall include waters north of latitude 50° 30' N and south of Area 55.(8) Area 57 shall include waters north of latitude 48° 26' N and south of Area 56.???? - This could use the additional "and north of the United States - Canada boundary."(9) Area 58A shall include waters north of the United States - Canada boundary and south of Area 57.(10) Area 58B shall include waters west of a line projected 220° true southwest from the equidistant point between the United States and Canada along the Cape Flattery to Bonilla Point line, north of a line projected true west from Point Grenville and south of Area 58A.(11) Area 59A-1 shall include waters east of the 220° true line, west of a line from Cape Flattery to Bonilla Point, and north of 47° 40' 30" N. Latitude (Destruction Island) exclusive of coastal waters (0-3 miles) north of a line projected true west from Cape Alava.???? - Current GIS data show this Area never reaches the Bonilla-Tatoosh line - it's cut off by the 59B border along the 3Nmi line.(12) Area 59A-2 shall include waters east of the 220° true line, south of 47° 40' 30" N. Latitude (Destruction Island), and north of a line projected true west from Point Grenville.(13) Area 59B shall include coastal waters (0-3 miles) northerly of a line projected true west from Cape Alava and west of a line projected from the Bonilla Point light on Vancouver Island to the Tatoosh Island light and then to the most westerly point of Cape Flattery.(14) Area 60A-1 shall include waters north of a line projected true west from Point Chehalis (46° 53' 18" N. Latitude) and south of a line projected true west from Point Grenville exclusive of Grays Harbor.(15) Area 60A-2 shall include waters north of a line projected true west from the Washington-Oregon boundary in the Columbia River and south of a line projected true west from Point Chehalis (46° 53' 18" N. Latitude) exclusive of the Columbia River estuary and Willapa Bay.???? - The OR/WA border "in the Columbia River" (i.e., E of the boundary defined in (18) below ends up at 46°15'24.68"=15.41') is 2,565 feet north of the latitude of the SWernmost extreme corner of our boundary at the 3Nmi limit (which is at 46°14'59.35 = 14.99'). So this leaves a tiny wedge of WA area in the OR Area 61.(16) Area 60B shall include the waters of Grays Harbor east of a line projected from the outermost end of the north jetty to the outermost end of the south jetty.(17) Area 60C shall include the saltwater areas of Willapa Bay east of a line from Leadbetter Point to Cape Shoalwater light.???? - The light is now gone, and there is no reference to "Shoalwater" in the current USCG light list.(18) Area 60D shall include waters of the Columbia River east of a line projected from the inshore end of the north jetty in the state of Washington to the knuckle of the south jetty in the state of Oregon, and west of the Megler-Astoria Bridge.(19) Area 61 shall include waters north of latitude 42° 00' N, and south of Area 60A, exclusive of the Columbia River estuary.(20) Area 62 shall include waters north of latitude 38° 00' N, and south of Area 61.(21) Area 63 shall include waters north of latitude 32° 00' N, and south of Area 62.(22) Area 64 shall include all waters south of Area 63.(23) This WAC will not apply to hardshell clams, oysters, or geoducks.[Statutory Authority: RCW 75.08.080. 98-05-043, § 220-22-410, filed 2/11/98, effective 3/14/98; 84-08-014 (Order 84-24), § 220-22-410, filed 3/27/84; 82-14-056 (Order 82-72), § 220-22-410, filed 7/1/82; 80-07-017 (Order 80-45), § 220-22-410, filed 6/11/80; Order 76-148, § 220-22-410, filed 12/2/76.] |