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HOUSE
JOINT MEMORIAL 4032
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Passed
Legislature - 1998 Regular Session
State of Washington 55th
Legislature 1998 Regular Session
By
Read first time 01/21/98.
Referred to Committee on Natural Resources.
Regarding
salmon and steelhead under the federal Endangered Species Act.
TO
THE HONORABLE WILLIAM J. CLINTON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, AND TO THE
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE AND THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, AND TO
THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES, IN CONGRESS
ASSEMBLED:
We,
your Memorialists, the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of
Washington, in legislative session assembled, respectfully represent and
petition as follows:
WHEREAS,
The people of the State of Washington are facing the impacts of the listing and
proposed listings of salmon and steelhead stocks under the federal Endangered
Species Act; and
WHEREAS,
These listings represent a serious threat to the continued economic well-being
of the people of the State of Washington; and
WHEREAS,
The people of the State of Washington will fully comply with the requirements
of the federal Endangered Species Act within its borders and territorial
waters; and
WHEREAS,
The salmon and steelhead that spawn in the State of Washington spend most of
their life cycle outside of waters controlled by the state; and
WHEREAS,
Considerable threats to the salmon and steelhead of the State of Washington can
only be addressed by the intervention of the United States Government; and
WHEREAS,
The success of any conservation plan implemented under the federal Endangered
Species Act for listed salmon and steelhead runs in the State of Washington is
in doubt without immediate action by the federal government;
NOW,
THEREFORE, Your Memorialists respectfully pray that the United States
Government immediately resolve the United States-Canada fishing dispute,
enforce the two hundred-mile limit and the ban on high seas drift net fishing,
and provide funding for salmon recovery efforts which mitigate the loss of
habitat caused by the construction of hydroelectric dams on the Columbia River.
BE IT RESOLVED, That copies of this Memorial be immediately
transmitted to the Honorable William J. Clinton, President of the United
States, the President of the United States Senate, the Speaker of the House of
Representatives, and each member of Congress from the State of Washington.
