1. (a) A gillnet must have a mesh size of six inches or less, and may not be more than 45 meshes in depth. The aggregate length of a set gillnet or drift gillnet may not exceed 50 fathoms, except that if the commissioner determines that there is a harvestable surplus of salmon, the commissioner may, by emergency order, close the fishing season and immediately reopen a season during which the aggregate length of a set gillnet or drift gillnet may not exceed 100 fathoms.
2. (b) Repealed 5/22/2016.
3. (c) Repealed 5/22/2016.
4. (d) Repealed 5/22/2016.
5. (e) No gillnet gear may be operated in a manner to obstruct more than one-half the width of any waterway. In the intertidal zone this restriction applies at all stages of the tide.
6. (f) In District 4, between June 1 and July 15, only one gillnet may be operated per vessel.

(In effect before 1985; am 5/11/85, Register 94; am 5/19/2004, Register 170; am 6/7/2007, Register 182; am 4/13/2013, Register 206; am 5/22/2016, Register 218; am 6/25/2023, Register 246)