CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

 

                   SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1821

 

 

                   Chapter 228, Laws of 2001

 

 

                        57th Legislature

                2001 Regular Legislative Session

 

 

DUNGENESS CRAB RESOURCE PLAN

 

 

 

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  7/22/01

Passed by the House April 16, 2001

  Yeas 94   Nays 0

 

 

              FRANK CHOPP

Speaker of the House of Representatives

     

 

 

             CLYDE BALLARD

Speaker of the House of Representatives

 

 

 

Passed by the Senate April 11, 2001

  Yeas 46   Nays 0

             CERTIFICATE

 

We, Timothy A. Martin and Cynthia Zehnder, Co-Chief Clerks of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1821 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

 

 

 

          TIMOTHY A. MARTIN

                          Chief Clerk

 

 

           CYNTHIA ZEHNDER

                          Chief Clerk

               BRAD OWEN

President of the Senate

 

 

 

Approved May 9, 2001 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.               

                                FILED                

 

              May 9, 2001 - 8:50 a.m.

 

              GARY LOCKE

Governor of the State of Washington

                 Secretary of State

                 State of Washington


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                    SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1821

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                     AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE

 

             Passed Legislature - 2001 Regular Session

 

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. 

  Concerning coastal Dungeness crab resource plan provisions.         


    AN ACT Relating to the consideration of extenuating circumstances for gear and effort reduction for the coastal Dungeness crab resource plan provisions; amending RCW 77.70.400; and creating a new section.

 

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

 

    Sec. 1.  RCW 77.70.400 and 1998 c 245 s 154 are each amended to read as follows:

    The department, with input from Dungeness crab‑-coastal fishery licensees and processors, shall prepare a resource plan to achieve even-flow harvesting and long-term stability of the coastal Dungeness crab resource.  The plan may include pot limits, further reduction in the number of vessels, individual quotas, trip limits, area quotas, or other measures as determined by the department.  The provisions of such a resource plan that are designed to effect a gear reduction or effort reduction based upon historical landing criteria are subject to the provisions of RCW 77.70.390 with respect to the consideration of extenuating circumstances.

   

    NEW SECTION.  Sec. 2.  For the purposes of determining the number of shellfish pots assigned to a license authorizing commercial harvest of Dungeness crab adjacent to the Washington coast, if the license is held by a person whose vessel designated for use under that license was lost due to sinking in any one of the three qualifying seasons, then the department of fish and wildlife shall use the landings in February 1996 to determine the number of pots granted to the license holder as an exception to WAC 220-52-040(14).  A license holder must notify the department of his or her eligibility under this section by September 30, 2001.


    Passed the House April 16, 2001.

    Passed the Senate April 11, 2001.

Approved by the Governor May 9, 2001.

    Filed in Office of Secretary of State May 9, 2001.