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                            ENGROSSED SENATE BILL 6293

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State of Washington              52nd Legislature             1992 Regular Session

By Senators Thorsness, Owen, Metcalf, Rasmussen and Oke

Read first time 01/23/92.  Referred to Committee on Environment & Natural Resources.Increasing the harvest of Puget Sound chinook salmon by recreational fishermen.

     AN ACT Relating to harvest of Puget Sound chinook salmon by recreational fishermen; and adding a new section to chapter 75.08 RCW.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 75.08 RCW to read as follows:

     The director shall increase the opportunity for recreational fishermen to harvest chinook salmon in Puget Sound to make restitution for past errors in catch accounting between treaty Indian fishermen and nonIndian recreational fishermen.  Such increase in opportunity for recreational fishermen shall not be accomplished by reducing other non-Indian fishing allocations.