Annual Chum Regs
2011 Annual Coho and Chum Regs
Emergency Chum Regs
EMERGENCY REGULATION NO. ER-11-23
Date
December 7th, 2011
Regs. No. Superseded/Modified
ER-11-22
Fishery Type
CHUM – Commercial Fishery
Catch Area
13D-1 Dana Passage
13D-2 Pickering Passage
13H Totten Inlet
13G Eld Inlet
On/Off Reservation
ON/OFF
Effective Dates
Open: 6 AM Friday December 9th, 2011
Closed: 9 AM Sunday December 11, 2011
Open: 6 AM Monday December 12th, 2011
Closed: 9 AM Wednesday December 14th, 2011
Days/Hours by Gear
Beach Seines/Drift Nets/ Set Nets Open 24 Hours/Day
Totten/Pickering:
Beach Seines – Max Length 600 feet/ Mesh Size: 3 Inch Min- 4 Inch Max
Pickering Passage:
Drift/ Set Nets – Max Length 600 feet/ Min Stretch: 5 inches
Totten Inlet:
Drift Nets-Max Length 900 ft/Set Nets Max Length 600ft-Min Stretch: 5 inches
Other Totten Inlet Restrictions:
All waters of Totten Inlet southwest of a line running northwest from the northern tip of Burns Point through the double pilings north of the Olympia Oyster Company building to the shore are Closed (Kennedy Creek closure). All waters of Skookum Inlet are CLOSED.
Eld Inlet:
In those waters north of a line extending northeast from JM Peters dock to the point on the opposite shore and south of a line extending from Flapjack Point to the northernmost point of land at the entrance to Green Cove: Drift/Set Nets- Max Length 300 feet/ Min Stretch: 5 inches
In those waters north of the aforementioned Flapjack Point Green Cove boundary to the northern 13G boundary: Drift/Set Nets- Max Length 600 feet/ Min Stretch: 5 inches
Dana Passage:
Drift Nets- Max Length 900 feet /Set Nets- Max Length 300 feet/ Min Stretch: 5 inches
Other Eld Inlet Restrictions:
Nets may not be set over private oyster beds. All waters south of a line extending from JM Peters dock to the point of land on the opposite shore are closed. Beach Seines must Release all Coho.
Fox Island Chum Regs
Coming soon
Carr Inlet Chum Regs
Squaxin, Puyallup and Nisqually have agreed to extend the Carr Inlet Chum Fishery another week for northern Carr Inlet (An area north of a line from Green Point on the east shoreline to Penrose point(signal tower no. 4)). After Carr Inlet closes at Noon Saturday December 3rd it will reopen Noon Sunday December 4th and then closed Noon Saturday December 10th. Same restrictions: Beach Seines and Drift Nets 24hrs and Set Nets 4pm to 9am daily.
Filing Organization
Medicine Creek Treaty Tribes
Regulation Number
MCTC-07-2011/12
Catch Area
Carr Inlet (13A)
Those marine waters north of a line projected from Green Point on the east shoreline to Penrose Point (signal tower no 4) on the Longbranch Peninsula and south of the State Highway 302 bridge and causeway, excluding the waters of Minter Bay.
Fishery type
commercial
Species
chum
Date adopted
October 21, 2011
Effective dates
October 23 – December 3, 2011
Legal gear:
Set gill nets – 900′ maximum length, 5″ minimum mesh size
Drift gill nets – 1,800′ maximum length, 5″ minimum mesh size
Beach seines – 900′ maximum length, 3″ minimum and 4″ maximum mesh size
Days/hrs:
Beginning: 12:00 noon, Sunday, October 23, 2011.
Drift nets and beach seines: open 7 days per week, 24 hours per day.
Set nets: open 4pm-9am/7 days/week.
(Set nets have priority over beach seines to fish 4pm-9am).
Ending: 12:00 noon, Saturday, December 3, 2011.
Additional restrictions:
Those waters within 1,000′ radius of the mouth of minter creek, including Minter Bay will remain closed.
Burley Lagoon (those waters north of the State Highway 302 bridge and causeway) is closed to all fishing.
Lay Inlet (those waters east of the access bridge on the south side of Raft Island and east of a line on the north side of Raft Island running from the westernmost large dock on Raft Island (below the large white house with the multi-terraced yard) northerly to the multi-platform stairway at the east end of the rock bulkhead) is closed to all fishing.
Justification
Harvestable chum
Remarks:
Marine set nets shall be tended not less than once every 24 hours. Individual tribes may file regulations with shorter tending times of set nets. Such regulations will be enforceable on the filing tribe’s members only.
The following actions will be subject to penalties and/or fines in accordance with tribal fishing ordinances adopted by the Medicine Creek Treaty Tribes:
Wantonly wasting or destroying food fish.
Disposing of litter into the water or onto shore while participating inthe in-common fisheries of the Medicine Creek Treaty Tribes.
