NOTICES
FISH AND BOAT COMMISSION
Removal of Waters from the Refuge Areas Program; July 2021
[51 Pa.B. 4416]
[Saturday, August 7, 2021]Under 58 Pa. Code § 67.2 (relating to refuge areas), the Executive Director of the Fish and Boat Commission (Commission), with the approval of the Commission, may designate waters as refuge areas to which 30 Pa.C.S. § 2306 (relating to refuge areas), shall apply. Section 2306 provides that the Commission may set aside, in its discretion, areas as it may judge best as refuge areas in which fishing, or entry, shall be prohibited for periods of time as the Commission prescribes. The designation of waters as refuge areas shall be effective upon posting of the waters after publication of a notice that the waters have been so designated in the Pennsylvania Bulletin. Refuge areas are closed to public fishing except during the period from June 15 until the last day of February of the following year. It is unlawful to disturb fish or other aquatic life in refuge areas by any means, including wading, throwing stones, rocks or other objects, or otherwise agitating the waters. The regulation will not be construed to prohibit fishing in these areas during the extended trout season.
Based on current conditions, there are reasons to remove the refuge area designation from 17 streams. For example, some streams are no longer being maintained as marked refuge areas, some streams are no longer stocked with trout and some streams are simply not being well utilized by anglers. These conditions are inconsistent with the premise for the use of refuge areas. Therefore, the Commission has approved the removal of refuge area designations from the sections of the following waters that have been so designated for the following reasons, consistent with its notice published at 51 Pa.B. 3314 (June 12, 2021):
County Water Area Rationale for Removal Cameron Hicks Run No longer being maintained Cameron Upper Jerry Run No longer stocked Cameron Wykoff Run No longer being maintained Cameron/Elk East Branch Hicks Run No longer stocked Cameron/Elk Mix Run No longer being maintained Cameron/Elk West Branch Hicks Run No longer being maintained Clearfield Jack Dent Branch No longer stocked Clearfield/Elk Medix Run No longer being maintained McKean Chappel Fork No longer being maintained McKean Kinzua Creek Delayed Harvest Area on stream McKean North Branch Sugar Run No longer being maintained McKean Skinner Creek No longer being maintained McKean South Branch Kinzua Creek No longer being maintained McKean Sugar Run No longer being maintained McKean Willow Creek No longer being maintained McKean/Warren East Branch Tionesta Creek No longer being maintained McKean/Warren Twomile Run No longer being maintained TIMOTHY D. SCHAEFFER,
Executive Director
[Pa.B. Doc. No. 21-1256. Filed for public inspection August 6, 2021, 9:00 a.m.]
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