To meet the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) requirements NOF must early on in the process. Usually the CR101 is early opening up the WAC and the CR102 in April or so. They can wait on finishing up the commercial side but only to 5 to six weeks prior to the season as a 30 day comment period has to be honored. Want to try and set vacations to fish around that? As the gentleman from Colorado wrote to Region 6 complaining that after traveling to Willapa to (as he had done for years) based on the posted schedule he arrived to find wall to wall gillnets and that it was inappropriate. Region 6 response? He should check the schedule posted on the website more often as it can change day to day.

On the Rec side it is such a jumble that it is hard to map out as they have the same requirements but most do not realize the Rec season adopted in the pamphlet are the seasons. In the past they simply use emergency regs to dodge the requirements for public review.