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PDFRCW 77.44.010

Warm water game fish enhancement programCreated.

A warm water game fish enhancement program is created in the department. The enhancement program shall be designed to increase the opportunities to fish for and catch warm water game fish including: Largemouth black bass, smallmouth black bass, channel catfish, black crappie, white crappie, walleye, and tiger musky. The program shall be designed to use a practical applied approach to increasing warm water fishing. The department shall use the funds available efficiently to assure the greatest increase in the fishing for warm water fish at the lowest cost. This approach shall involve the minimization of overhead and administrative costs and the maximization of productive in-the-field activities.
[ 1998 c 191 s 39; 1996 c 222 s 1.]

NOTES:

Effective date1998 c 191: See note following RCW 77.32.410.
Effective dates1996 c 222: "(1) Sections 1, 2, and 4 through 6 of this act shall take effect July 1, 1996.
(2) Section 3 of this act shall take effect January 1, 1997." [ 1996 c 222 s 8.]