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                          HOUSE BILL 1490

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State of Washington      56th Legislature     1999 Regular Session

By Representatives Hatfield, Doumit, Buck and Kessler

Read first time 01/26/1999.  Referred to Committee on Natural Resources.

Allowing the landing of salmon caught in other states' offshore waters in Washington ports.

    AN ACT Relating to the delivery of salmon into the ports of the state; and adding a new section to chapter 75.28 RCW.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 75.28 RCW to read as follows:

    (1) The legislature finds that landing salmon into the ports of Washington state, regardless of where such salmon have been harvested, is economically beneficial to those ports as well as to the citizens of the state of Washington.  It is therefore the intent of the legislature to encourage this practice.

    (2) Notwithstanding the provisions of RCW 75.28.010(1)(b) and 75.28.113, a person who holds a valid Oregon or California salmon troll license may land salmon taken during lawful seasons in Oregon and California into Washington ports without obtaining a salmon delivery license.  This exception is valid only when the salmon were taken in offshore waters south of Cape Falcon.  For the purposes of this section, "offshore waters" means all marine waters of the Pacific Ocean outside the territorial limits of the state of Washington, including the marine waters of other states and countries.

    (3) The department shall adopt rules necessary to implement this section, including rules identifying the appropriate methods for verifying that salmon were in fact taken south of Cape Falcon.

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