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                                                   SENATE BILL NO. 5625

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State of Washington                               51st Legislature                              1989 Regular Session

By Senators Smith, Bauer and Amondson

Read first time 1/31/89 and referred to Committee on   Environment & Natural Resources.

AN ACT Relating to a special senior citizen salmon and steelhead bank fishing recreation area; adding a new section to chapter 75.08 RCW; and adding a new section to chapter 77.12 RCW.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 75.08 RCW to read as follows:

          The director shall establish a senior citizen salmon bank fishing area in the Columbia river for the entire river bank area from six hundred feet below Bonneville dam fishway to the Megler-Astoria bridge.  The purpose of establishing the bank fishing area is to allow persons seventy years old and older to fish for salmon from the river bank on a year-round basis.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.  A new section is added to chapter 77.12 RCW to read as follows:

          The wildlife commission shall establish a senior citizen steelhead bank fishing area on the Columbia river for the entire river bank area from six hundred feet below Bonneville dam fishway to the Megler-Astoria bridge.  The purpose of establishing the bank fishing area is to allow persons seventy years old and older to fish for steelhead from the river bank on a year-round basis.