HB 2156 - DIGEST

     Creates the Hood Canal marine sanctuary within the geographic area covered by the Hood Canal summer chum salmon evolutionarily significant unit.  The sanctuary is bounded by northwest corner of Kitsap county and runs due west to the shoreline of Jefferson county and claims all waters south of that boundary.  The sanctuary is designed to protect, preserve, and fully recover in the following order:  (1) Wild or naturally spawning summer chum salmon, chinook salmon, coho salmon, and steelhead;

     (2) herring, smelt, ling cod, perch, and black cod; and

     (3) all other species of aquatic animal and plant life indigenous to Hood Canal.