PUGET SOUND COMMERCIAL 
SALMON FISHERIES REGULATION HOTLINE
                  2022-15
                  Week 40
                  09/23/2022 – 4:00PM

For the week beginning Sunday September 25 all areas are closed except as follows:

Area 6-D (Dungeness Bay) will be open to:
Gillnets using 5-inch minimum mesh size : 7 AM to 7 PM daily Monday September 26 to Friday September 30. All Chinook and chum must be released by cutting the ensnaring mesh. 

Area 7 (San Juan Islands) will be open to:
Reef Nets: 5 AM to 9 PM Daily Sunday, September 25 to Saturday, October 1. Must release all chum, sockeye, unmarked Chinook, and unmarked Coho. Immediate possession of a WDFW Logbook is required to retain Chinook.

Areas 7-B (Bellingham Bay):
Gillnets using 5-inch minimum mesh size: Open continuously through midnight Sunday, October 23. Retention of Sockeye is prohibited.
Purse seines with a 5 inch strip: Open continuously through 6 pm Sunday, October 23. Brailing is required. Retention of Sockeye is prohibited.

Area 9-A (Port Gamble Bay) will be open to:
Skiff gillnets with nets not to exceed 600 feet in length and 60 meshes in depth using 5-inch minimum mesh, is open continuously through 7 PM Saturday, October 29.  All Chinook and chum must be released by cutting the ensnaring mesh.

Area 12-A (Quilcene Bay) will be open to:
Beach seines: 7 AM to 7 PM daily Monday September 26 to Friday September 30. 
Beach seines may only retain coho and nets may not to exceed 990 feet in length and 200 meshes in depth using minimum 3-inch and maximum 4-inch mesh.

Limited Participation License drawing will be postponed until Wednesday, September 28. Selected participants will be notified Thursday, September 29 and Friday, September 30.

If you suspect an error in this message or if you have questions, please call 360-701-2215.   
http://wdfw.wa.gov/fishing/commercial/salmon/