LCL 10 Natural Resources

fishery must be released; otherwise all other
incidental catches legal under current general
bottom fish restrictions may be sold under a
Commercial Fishing Identification Card
validated for halibut.
Violations of this provision shall be treated
under the appropriate Sections dealing with
the bottom fish.
Chapter 10.12 General Bottom Fisheries
10.12.010 Legal Bottomfish Gear
It is unlawful to take, fish for, or possess
Bottomfish except with gear described below,
unless otherwise provided by regulation:
(a) Set line gear-set line gear must meet the
following conditions:
(1) Hook size must not be smaller than size
7/0 Kirby style hooks or size 8 for tuna
circle hooks.
(2) Set lines must be marked at the surface
by a buoy clearly marked in a permanent
fashion with only the owner’s Commercial
Fishing Identification Card number.
(b) Set Nets - including dogfish set nets but
excluding pacific cod set nets.
(c) Commercial Jig.
(d) Troll Lines -
(1) No more than two troll lines per vessel,
(2) No more than 4 spreads per troll line,
(3) The top spread can not be more than
twenty-four feet from the weight on the end
of the line.
(e) Drag (Beach) Seines - must not be longer
than 350 feet in length with mesh no smaller
than 1/2 inch stretch measure.
(f) Beam and Otter Trawls - including
bottom, roller and surface trawls may be used
with the following restrictions:
(1) Mesh Size - Mesh in the cod end
section shall not be less than 4 1/2 inches,
except that pelagic trawls used to take
Pacific Whiting during legal openings may
contain mesh in the cod end section of not
less than 3 inches.
(2) Chafing Gear - On bottom trawl chafing
gear must have a minimum mesh size of 15
inches unless only the bottom half of the
cod end is covered by chafing gear. For
pelagic trawls chafing gear covering the
upper one half (top side) of the cod end
must have a minimum mesh size of 6
inches.
(3) Roller Trawl - Roller Trawl gear is
prohibited.
10.12.020 Bottomfish General
Provisions
(a) It is unlawful to take, fish for, or possess
for commercial purposes any starry flounder
less than 14 inches in length taken by
commercial bottomfish gear.
(b) It is unlawful to retain for commercial
purposes any lingcod less than 22 inches.
(c) It is unlawful to take or possess lingcod
taken for commercial purposes with any gear
from December 1 through April 30.
(d) It is unlawful to take, fish for, or possess
any species of shellfish taken with lawful
bottom fish gear, except for octopus.
10.12.030 Beam and Otter Trawl
Fisheries
It shall be lawful to fish for and possess
bottomfish taken with bottom trawl and beam
trawl gear in Lummi usual and accustomed
fishing except as noted below, or otherwise
provided by regulation:
(a) Waters east of a line from Point Whitehorn
to Sandy Point and Marine Fish and Shellfish
Management and Catch Reporting Area 21B
are closed for the entire year.
(b) Waters in Marine Fish and Shellfish
Management and Catch Reporting Area 20A
in an area bounded by lines from Lilly Point
and from the southwest corner of Point
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