H‑1288.1 _____________________________________________
HOUSE BILL 1821
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State of Washington 57th Legislature 2001 Regular Session
By Representatives Buck, Doumit, Sump, Hatfield and Kessler
Read first time 02/06/2001. Referred to Committee on Natural Resources.
_1 AN ACT Relating to the consideration of extenuating
_2 circumstances for gear and effort reduction for the coastal
_3 Dungeness crab resource plan provisions; amending RCW 77.70.400;
_4 and creating a new section.
_5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
_6 Sec. 1. RCW 77.70.400 and 1998 c 245 s 154 are each amended to
_7 read as follows:
_8 The department, with input from Dungeness crab‑-coastal fishery
_9 licensees and processors, shall prepare a resource plan to achieve
10 even-flow harvesting and long-term stability of the coastal
11 Dungeness crab resource. The plan may include pot limits, further
12 reduction in the number of vessels, individual quotas, trip
13 limits, area quotas, or other measures as determined by the
14 department. The provisions of such a resource plan that are
15 designed to effect a gear reduction or effort reduction based upon
16 historical landing criteria are subject to the provisions of RCW
17 77.70.390 with respect to the consideration of extenuating
18 circumstances.
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_2 NEW SECTION. Sec. 2. For the purposes of determining the number
_3 of shellfish pots assigned to a Washington Dungeness crab-coastal
_4 fishery license, if the Dungeness crab-coastal fishery license is
_5 held by a person whose vessel was lost due to sinking or fire in
_6 any one of the three qualifying seasons, then the department of
_7 fish and wildlife shall go back one more season from December 1,
_8 1995, to September 15, 1996, and use this season poundage to
_9 determine the number of pots granted to the license holder as an
10 exception to WAC 220-52-040(14).
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