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SENATE BILL 5126
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State of Washington 53rd Legislature 1993 Regular Session
By Senators Snyder, Owen, Haugen, Spanel, Sellar, Oke, Bauer, Amondson and Erwin; by request of Department of Fisheries
Read first time 01/14/93. Referred to Committee on Natural Resources.
AN ACT Relating to the geographical landmark at Cape Shoalwater; amending RCW 75.12.210 and 75.28.012; and creating a new section.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. The purpose of this act is to correct references to a geographical landmark on Cape Shoalwater that no longer exists. Cape Shoalwater Light has been removed and a new tower has been constructed four hundred yards to the west. It is not intended that this act make any substantive change in the boundaries of the areas described in RCW 75.12.210 and 75.28.012 beyond the minor adjustment necessitated by the replacement of the landmark.
Sec. 2. RCW 75.12.210 and 1983 1st ex.s. c 46 s 60 are each amended to read as follows:
(1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of
this section, it is unlawful to fish for or take salmon with gear other than
troll gear or angling gear within the offshore waters or the waters of the
Pacific Ocean over which the state has jurisdiction lying west of the following
line: Commencing at the point of intersection of the international boundary
line in the Strait of Juan de Fuca and a line drawn between the lighthouse on
Tatoosh Island in Clallam County and Bonilla Point on Vancouver Island; thence southerly
to the lighthouse on Tatoosh Island; thence southerly to the most westerly
point of Cape Flattery; thence southerly along the state shoreline of the
Pacific Ocean, crossing any river mouths at their most westerly points of land,
to Point Brown at the entrance to Grays Harbor; thence southerly to Point
Chehalis Light on Point Chehalis; thence southerly from Point Chehalis along
the state shoreline of the Pacific Ocean to the Cape Shoalwater ((Light))
tower at the entrance to Willapa Bay; thence southerly to Leadbetter
Point; thence southerly along the state shoreline of the Pacific Ocean to the
inshore end of the North jetty at the entrance to the Columbia River; thence
southerly to the knuckle of the South jetty at the entrance to said river.
(2) The director may authorize the use of nets for taking salmon in the waters described in subsection (1) of this section for scientific investigations.
Sec. 3. RCW 75.28.012 and 1983 1st ex.s. c 46 s 102 are each amended to read as follows:
The following licensing districts are created:
(1) The Puget Sound licensing district includes waters of the Strait of Juan de Fuca, Georgia Strait, Puget Sound and all bays, inlets, canals, coves, sounds and estuaries lying easterly and southerly of the international boundary line and a line at the entrance to the Strait of Juan de Fuca projected northerly from Cape Flattery to the lighthouse on Tatoosh Island and then to Bonilla Point on Vancouver Island.
(2) The Grays Harbor-Columbia river licensing district includes waters of Grays Harbor and tributary estuaries lying easterly of a line projected northerly from Point Chehalis Light to Point Brown and those waters of the Columbia river and tributary sloughs and estuaries easterly of a line at the entrance to the Columbia river projected southerly from the most westerly point of the North jetty to the most westerly point of the South jetty.
(3) The Willapa Bay-Columbia river licensing
district includes waters of Willapa Bay and tributary estuaries and easterly of
a line projected northerly from Leadbetter Point to the Cape Shoalwater
((Light)) tower and those waters of the Columbia river and
tributary sloughs described in subsection (2) of this section.
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