H‑2088.1   _____________________________________________

SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1821

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State of Washington      57th Legislature     2001 Regular Session

By House Committee on Natural Resources (originally sponsored by Representatives Buck, Doumit, Sump, Hatfield and Kessler)

READ FIRST TIME 02/27/01. 

_1      AN ACT Relating to the consideration of extenuating

_2  circumstances for gear and effort reduction for the coastal

_3  Dungeness crab resource plan provisions; amending RCW 77.70.400;

_4  and creating a new section.

_5  BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

_6      Sec. 1.  RCW 77.70.400 and 1998 c 245 s 154 are each amended to

_7  read as follows:

_8      The department, with input from Dungeness crab‑-coastal fishery

_9  licensees and processors, shall prepare a resource plan to achieve

10  even-flow harvesting and long-term stability of the coastal

11  Dungeness crab resource.  The plan may include pot limits, further

12  reduction in the number of vessels, individual quotas, trip

13  limits, area quotas, or other measures as determined by the

14  department.  The provisions of such a resource plan that are

15  designed to effect a gear reduction or effort reduction based upon

16  historical landing criteria are subject to the provisions of RCW

17  77.70.390 with respect to the consideration of extenuating

18  circumstances.

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_1     NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.  For the purposes of determining the number

_2  of shellfish pots assigned to a Washington Dungeness crab-coastal

_3  fishery license, if the Dungeness crab-coastal fishery license is

_4  held by a person whose vessel was lost due to sinking in any one

_5  of the three qualifying seasons, then the department of fish and

_6  wildlife shall go back to February 1996, and use this month's

_7  poundage to determine the number of pots granted to the license

_8  holder as an exception to WAC 220-52-040(14).  A license holder of a

_9  Washington Dungeness crab-coastal fishery license must notify the

10  department of his or her eligibility under this section by

11  September 30, 2001.

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