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                         SENATE BILL 5077

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State of Washington      54th Legislature     1995 Regular Session

By Senators Oke and Owen

Read first time 01/09/95.  Referred to Committee on Natural Resources.

Prohibiting commercial bottom trawling in all state waters.

    AN ACT Relating to commercial bottom trawling; amending RCW 75.12.390, 75.28.120, and 75.28.130; and providing an effective date.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 75.12.390 and 1989 c 172 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:

    ((Commercial bottom trawling for food fish and shellfish is unlawful in all areas of Hood Canal south of a line projected from Tala Point to Foulweather Bluff and in Puget Sound south of a line projected from Foulweather Bluff to Double Bluff and including all marine waters east of Whidbey Island and Camano Island.))  The legislature finds that commercial bottom trawling for food fish and shellfish is a fishing practice that is harmful to the environment and indiscriminately causes mortality to a wide variety of marine organisms.  Bottom trawling causes adverse effects to the marine food chain and other fisheries, and is in itself a relatively low-value fishery.

Commercial bottom trawling for food fish and shellfish is unlawful in all state waters.

    Sec. 2.  RCW 75.28.120 and 1993 sp.s. c 17 s 38 are each amended to read as follows:

    (1) This section establishes commercial fishery licenses required for food fish fisheries and the annual fees for those licenses.  As used in this section, "food fish" does not include salmon.  The director may issue a limited-entry commercial fishery license only to a person who meets the qualifications established in applicable governing sections of this title.

  Fishery    Annual Fee Vessel  Limited

(Governing section(s))   Resident      Nonresident  Required?        Entry?

(a) Baitfish Lampara     $185   $295   Yes    No

(b) Baitfish purse seine $530   $985   Yes    No

(c) Bottom fish jig $130 $185   Yes    No

(d) Bottom fish pot $130 $185   Yes    No

(e) Bottom fish troll    $130   $185   Yes    No

(f) Carp    $130    $185 No     No

(g) Columbia river smelt $380   $685   No     No

(h) Dog fish set net     $130   $185   Yes    No

(i) Emerging commercial  $185   $295   Determined Determined

fishery (RCW 75.30.220                 by rule       by rule

and 75.28.740)

(j) Food fish drag seine $130   $185   Yes    No

(k) Food fish set line   $130   $185   Yes    No

(l) ((Food fish trawlC   $240   $405   Yes    No

Non-Puget Sound

(m) Food fish trawlC     $185   $295   Yes    No

Puget Sound

(n))) Herring dip bag net $175   $275   Yes    Yes

(RCW 75.30.140)

(((o))) (m) Herring drag seine  $175   $275   Yes    Yes

(RCW 75.30.140)

(((p))) (n) Herring gill net    $175   $275   Yes    Yes

(RCW 75.30.140)

(((q))) (o) Herring Lampara     $175   $275   Yes    Yes

(RCW 75.30.140)

(((r))) (p) Herring purse seine $175   $275   Yes    Yes

(RCW 75.30.140)

(((s))) (q) Herring spawn-on-kelp      N/A    N/A    Yes Yes

(RCW 75.30.270)

(((t))) (r) Smelt dip bag net   $130   $185   No     No

(((u))) (s) Smelt gill net      $380   $685   Yes    No

(((v))) (t) WhitingCPuget Sound $295   $520   Yes    Yes

(RCW 75.30.170)

    (2) The director may by rule determine the species of food fish that may be taken with the commercial fishery licenses established in this section, the gear that may be used with the licenses, and the areas or waters in which the licenses may be used.  Where a fishery license has been established for a particular species, gear, geographical area, or combination thereof, a more general fishery license may not be used to take food fish in that fishery.

    Sec. 3.  RCW 75.28.130 and 1994 c 260 s 14 are each amended to read as follows:

    (1) This section establishes commercial fishery licenses required for shellfish fisheries and the annual fees for those licenses.  The director may issue a limited-entry commercial fishery license only to a person who meets the qualifications established in applicable governing sections of this title.

  Fishery    Annual Fee Vessel  Limited

(Governing section(s))   Resident      Nonresident  Required?        Entry?

(a) Burrowing shrimp     $185   $295   Yes    No

(b) Crab ring netC  $130 $185   Yes    No

Non-Puget Sound

(c) Crab ring netC  $130 $185   Yes    No

Puget Sound

(d) Dungeness crabC $295 $520   Yes    Yes

coastal (RCW

75.30.--- (section

2, chapter 260, Laws

of 1994))

(e) Dungeness crabC $295 $520   Yes    Yes

coastal, class B

(RCW 75.30.---

(section 2, chapter

260, Laws of 1994))

(f) Dungeness crabC $130 $185   Yes    Yes

Puget Sound

(RCW 75.30.130)

(g) Emerging commercial  $185   $295   Determined Determined

fishery (RCW 75.30.220                 by rule       by rule

and 75.28.740)

(h) Geoduck (RCW    $  0 $  0   Yes    Yes

75.30.280)

(i) Hardshell clam  $530 $985   Yes    No

mechanical harvester

(RCW 75.28.280)

(j) Oyster reserve  $130 $185   No     No

(RCW 75.28.290)

(k) Razor clam      $130 $185   No     No

(l) Sea cucumber dive    $130   $185   Yes    Yes

(RCW 75.30.250)

(m) Sea urchin dive $130 $185   Yes    Yes

(RCW 75.30.210)

(n) Shellfish dive  $130 $185   Yes    No

(o) Shellfish pot   $130 $185   Yes    No

(p) Shrimp potC     $325 $575   Yes    No

Hood Canal

(q) ((Shrimp trawlC $240 $405   Yes    No

Non-Puget Sound

(r) Shrimp trawlC   $185 $295   Yes    No

Puget Sound

(s))) Squid $185    $295 Yes    No

    (2) The director may by rule determine the species of shellfish that may be taken with the commercial fishery licenses established in this section, the gear that may be used with the licenses, and the areas or waters in which the licenses may be used.  Where a fishery license has been established for a particular species, gear, geographical area, or combination thereof, a more general fishery license may not be used to take shellfish in that fishery.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 4.  This act shall take effect January 1, 1996.

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