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                         SENATE BILL 6741

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State of Washington      54th Legislature     1996 Regular Session

By Senators Haugen and Spanel

Read first time 01/30/96.  Referred to Committee on Natural Resources.

Creating the fishery retail fish dealer's license.

    AN ACT Relating to the fishery retail fish dealer's license; amending RCW 75.28.300; and adding a new section to chapter 75.28 RCW.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 75.28.300 and 1993 sp.s. c 17 s 43 are each amended to read as follows:

    A wholesale fish dealer's license is required for:

    (1) A business in the state to engage in the commercial processing of food fish or shellfish, including custom canning or processing of personal use food fish or shellfish.

    (2) A business in the state to engage in the wholesale selling, buying, or brokering of food fish or shellfish.  A wholesale fish dealer's license is not required of those businesses which buy exclusively from Washington licensed wholesale dealers and sell solely at retail.

    (3) ((Fishermen who land and sell their catch or harvest in the state to anyone other than a licensed wholesale dealer within or outside the state.

    (4))) A business to engage in the commercial manufacture or preparation of fertilizer, oil, meal, caviar, fish bait, or other byproducts from food fish or shellfish.

    (((5))) (4) A business employing a fish buyer as defined under RCW 75.28.340.

    The annual license fee for a wholesale dealer is two hundred fifty dollars.  A wholesale fish dealer's license is not required for persons engaged in the processing, wholesale selling, buying, or brokering of private sector cultured aquatic products as defined in RCW 15.85.020.  However, if a means of identifying such products is required by rules adopted under RCW 15.85.060, the exemption from licensing requirements established by this subsection applies only if the aquatic products are identified in conformance with those rules.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.  A new section is added to chapter 75.28 RCW to read as follows:

    A person who has a commercial fishery license in Washington state is required to purchase a fishery retail fish dealer's license in order to market his or her catch directly to consumers.  The fee for the fishery retail fish dealer's license is fifty dollars annually.  The director shall develop rules to regulate the direct marketing of catch to consumers.

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