Robert Sudar v. Fish & Wildlife Commission

¶1 — Robert Sudar, Chris Doumit, John Hanson, Michael Wulliger, and Jim Long,1 commercial fishers, appeal from a superior court order dismissing their petition for judicial review of the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission’s (Commission) Columbia River Basin Salmon Management Policy C-3620. Sudar challenges the trial court’s finding that Policy C-3620 is not a rule as defined by the Washington Administrative Procedure Act2 (APA) and that no judicial claim for relief may be asserted. Sudar argues Policy C-3620 is a rule because it is a directive or regulation of general applicability and…