Pre-registration is required for this event.
Visit the event website for more information: 2025 Fishing Closure near WSDOT Ferry Terminals
This public hearing is for the rule project titled 2025 Fishing Closure near WSDOT Ferry Terminals.
The purpose of the proposed rule making is to improve public and worker safety by prohibiting either commercial or recreational crabbing, shrimping, purse seine fishing and gillnetting near all ferry terminals managed by the Washington state department of transportation (WSDOT). Furthermore, the commercial and recreational fishing equipment associated with these activities has historically caused significant and costly annual damage to WSDOT ferries.
This meeting is a hybrid meeting. If you would like to speak in person at the hearing via in person or through the zoom link, pre-register by August 4 https://publicinput.com/2025ferryterminalpublichearing
You may also submit public comment online, by phone or email. Visit the more information page below for details.
Notice of Photography and/or Videography. When you attend this event, you enter an area where photography and/or videography (which includes audio recording) may occur. By entering the event premises, you consent to such photography and/or videography and their release, publication, exhibition, or reproduction by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. If you prefer not to have your photo and/or video taken, please inform WDFW staff immediately upon arrival. Staff will provide a sticker or tape for you to wear. You must wear the sticker/tape at all times. WDFW will make an effort to edit or remove any photos and/or video of you in which the sticker/tape is present. Any photos and/or videos posted in error will be immediately edited or removed upon request.
Due to the nature of audio recording that is a necessary part of videography, WDFW cannot warrant that outside/ambient audio from other individuals won’t be captured and released as part of said videography. All parties attending such an event consent to WDFW using such outside/ambient audio recording as part of any videography process.