PUGET SOUND COMMERCIAL 
SALMON FISHERIES REGULATION HOTLINE
                  2024-23,
                  Week 43,
                  10/24/2024 9:30 AM

For the remainder of the week beginning Sunday, October 20, all areas are closed except as follows:

Area 6 D:
Gillnets using 5-inch minimum mesh size : Monday, October 21, through Friday, October 25. All Chinook must be released by cutting the ensnaring mesh. 

Areas 7 B:
Gillnets using 5-inch minimum mesh size: Open continuously through midnight Sunday, October 27. Retention of sockeye is prohibited.
Purse seines with a 5 inch strip: Open continuously through 6 PM Saturday, October 26. Brailing is required, and purse seines must release all sockeye.


Area 8 D:
Gillnets using 5-inch minimum mesh size: Open 5 PM Sunday, October 20 to 9 AM Monday, October 21. 5 PM Monday, October 21 to 9 AM Thursday, October 24. 5 PM Thursday, October 24 to 9 AM Friday, October 25. 
All sockeye must be released by cutting the ensnaring mesh.

Area 9 A:
Skiff gill nets 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, November 2.
All Chinook must be released by cutting the ensnaring mesh.

Area 9 (Apple Cove Point):
WDFW/NWIFC ACP Test Fishery and the WDFW Area 11 Research Fisheries will take place Friday, October 25.