Brief Description: Concerning the sale of aquaculture products produced on leased state-owned aquatic land.

Sponsors: Senator Jacobsen.

Senate Committee on Natural Resources, Ocean & Recreation
House Committee on Natural Resources, Ecology & Parks

Background: Valuable materials such as sand, gravel, and shellfish must be sold at public auction if their value is over one hundred thousand dollars. The sale of the harvested geoducks is by the lease holder. It is the harvest tracts which are leased and not the geoducks. Therefore the statute needs to be amended to make sure that the lease holder can sell the harvested product.

Summary: Aquaculture products on leased lands may be sold by the leaseholder as long as the sale is consistent with the lease.

Votes on Final Passage:

Senate      48   0
House      96   0

Effective: July 24, 2005