Passed by the House February 6, 2024 Yeas 70 Nays 27
Speaker of the House of Representatives Passed by the Senate February 27, 2024 Yeas 29 Nays 20
President of the Senate | CERTIFICATE I, Bernard Dean, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is HOUSE BILL 1153 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.
Chief Clerk Chief Clerk |
Approved | FILED |
| Secretary of State State of Washington |
HOUSE BILL 1153
Passed Legislature - 2024 Regular Session
State of Washington | 68th Legislature | 2023 Regular Session |
ByRepresentatives Peterson, Fitzgibbon, Berry, Walen, Bateman, Goodman, Leavitt, Macri, Gregerson, Stonier, Pollet, and Fosse
Prefiled 01/05/23.Read first time 01/09/23.Referred to Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources.
AN ACT Relating to prohibiting octopus farming; and amending RCW
15.85.020.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW
15.85.020 and 2003 c 39 s 7 are each amended to read as follows:
((Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the))The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise.
(1) "Aquaculture" means the process of growing, farming, or cultivating private sector cultured aquatic products in marine or fresh waters and includes management by an aquatic farmer.
(2) "Aquatic farmer" is a private sector person who commercially farms and manages the cultivating of private sector cultured aquatic products on the person's own land or on land in which the person has a present right of possession.
(3)(a) "Private sector cultured aquatic products" are native, nonnative, or hybrids of marine or freshwater plants and animals that are propagated, farmed, or cultivated on aquatic farms under the supervision and management of a private sector aquatic farmer or that are naturally set on aquatic farms which at the time of setting are under the active supervision and management of a private sector aquatic farmer. When produced under such supervision and management, private sector cultured aquatic products include, but are not limited to, the following plants and animals:
Scientific Name | Common Name |
Enteromorpha | green nori |
Monostroma | awo-nori |
Ulva | sea lettuce |
Laminaria | konbu |
Nereocystis | bull kelp |
Porphyra | nori |
Iridaea | |
Haliotis | abalone |
Zhlamys | pink scallop |
Hinnites | rock scallop |
Tatinopecten | Japanese or weathervane scallop |
Protothaca | native littleneck clam |
Tapes | manila clam |
Saxidomus | butter clam |
Mytilus | mussels |
Crassostrea | Pacific oysters |
Ostrea | Olympia and European oysters |
Pacifasticus | crayfish |
Macrobrachium | freshwater prawn |
Salmo and Salvelinus | trout, char, and Atlantic salmon |
Oncorhynchus | salmon |
Ictalurus | catfish |
Cyprinus | carp |
Acipenseridae | Sturgeon |
(b) Private sector cultured aquatic products do not include herring spawn on kelp and other products harvested under a herring spawn on kelp permit issued in accordance with RCW
77.70.210.
(c) Private sector cultured aquatic products do not include octopus and a person may not participate in octopus aquaculture in Washington.
(4) "Department" means the department of agriculture.
(5) "Director" means the director of agriculture.
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