BILL REQ. #:  H-5380.1 



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SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 3052
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State of Washington60th Legislature2008 Regular Session

By House Agriculture & Natural Resources (originally sponsored by Representatives Appleton, Sells, Flannigan, Roberts, Haigh, Dickerson, and Williams)

READ FIRST TIME 02/05/08.   



     AN ACT Relating to the role of the department of fish and wildlife in the management of the state wildstock geoduck resource; and amending RCW 79.135.220.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 79.135.220 and 2005 c 155 s 709 are each amended to read as follows:
     (1) It is the responsibility of the department ((shall)) to designate the areas of state-owned aquatic lands that are available for geoduck harvesting by licensed geoduck harvesters in accordance with this chapter ((79.90 RCW)).
     (2) For the state's management of the geoduck fishery, it is the primary responsibility of the department of fish and wildlife to:
     (a) Identify commercial geoduck tracks;
     (b) Conduct geoduck fishery assessments and recovery and mortality rate studies;
     (c) Set the total allowable catch limits for the harvest of wildstock geoducks from state-owned aquatic lands.

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