CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT
HOUSE BILL 1153
68TH LEGISLATURE
2024 REGULAR SESSION
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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