S-0652.1/91       _______________________________________________

                                 SENATE BILL 5081

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State of Washington              52nd Legislature             1991 Regular Session

By Senators L. Smith, Bauer and Oke.

Read first time January 18, 1991.  Referred to Committee on Environment & Natural Resources.Creating two-day steelhead catch record cards.

     AN ACT Relating to steelhead catch record cards; and amending RCW 77.32.360.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

     Sec. 1.  RCW 77.32.360 and 1990 c 84 s 7 are each amended to read as follows:

     (1) A steelhead catch record card is required to fish for steelhead trout.  ((The fee for this catch record card is fifteen dollars.))       (a) The fee for an annual steelhead catch record card is fifteen dollars and the fee for a two‑day steelhead catch record card is five dollars.

(b) A two‑day steelhead catch record card shall be issued to residents and nonresidents.  It is valid for two consecutive days following the time of issuance.  A person may purchase more than one two‑day card a year.  A fishing license is not required to obtain a two‑day steelhead catch record card.  The two‑day steelhead catch record card is valid for a total catch of four steelhead trout.

     (2) Persons possessing steelhead trout shall immediately validate their annual steelhead catch record card or two-day steelhead catch record care as provided by rule.

     (3) The annual steelhead catch record card required under this section expires April 30th following the date of issuance.

     (4) Each person who returns ((a)) an annual steelhead catch record card to an authorized license dealer by June 1 following the period for which it was issued shall be given a credit equal to five dollars towards that day's purchase of any license, permit, transport tag, catch record card, or stamp required by this chapter.  This subsection does not apply to annual steelhead catch record cards for persons under the age of fifteen.

     (5) Persons under the age of fifteen may purchase an annual steelhead catch record card for five dollars.  The five-dollar catch record card for persons under the age of fifteen entitles the holder to retain no more than five steelhead. After retaining five steelhead, a new catch record card may be purchased.