PUGET SOUND COMMERCIAL 
SALMON FISHERIES REGULATION HOTLINE
                  2024-12,
                  Week 39,
                  09/20/2024 5:00 PM

For the remainder of the week beginning Sunday September 15:
 
Area 6D (Dungeness Bay) will be open to:
Gillnets using 5-inch minimum mesh size : Open 7 AM to 7PM Saturday, September 21. All Chinook and chum must be released by cutting the ensnaring mesh.

For the week beginning Sunday, September 22, all areas are closed except as follows:

Area 6D (Dungeness Bay) will be open to:
Gillnets using 5-inch minimum mesh size : Open 7 AM to 7PM Daily: Sunday, September 22 through Wednesday, September 25. 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 22 through Saturday, September 28. 
Reef Nets must release all chum, sockeye, unmarked Chinook, and unmarked coho. Immediate possession of a WDFW Logbook is required to retain marked Chinook.

Areas 7 B (Bellingham Bay) will be open to:
Gillnets using 5-inch minimum mesh size: Open continuously through midnight Sunday, November 2. Retention of sockeye is prohibited.
Purse seines with a 5 inch strip: Open continuously through 6 PM Sunday, November 2. Brailing is required, and purse seines must release all sockeye.

Area 8D (Tulalip Bay) will be open west of a line from Mission Point to Hermosa Point to:
Gillnets using 5-inch minimum mesh size: Open 6 PM Sunday, September 22 to 8 AM Monday, September 23. 6 PM Monday, September 23 to 8 AM Thursday, September 26. 6 PM Thursday, September 26 to 8 AM Friday, September 27. 
All sockeye must be released by cutting the ensnaring mesh.

Area 9 A (Port Gamble Bay) will be open to:
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 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 23 through Friday, September 27. 
Beach seines may only retain coho and nets may not exceed 990 feet in length and 200 meshes in depth using minimum 3-inch and maximum 4-inch mesh.


If you suspect an error in this message or if you have questions, please contact 360-701-2215.