77.105.040 - Delayed-release chinook salmon -- Freshwater rearing. - Washington Statutes

Delayed-release chinook salmon — Freshwater rearing.

The department shall develop new locations for the freshwater rearing of delayed-release chinook salmon. In calendar year 1994, at least one freshwater pond chinook salmon rearing site shall be developed and begin production in each of the following areas: South Puget Sound, central Puget Sound, north Puget Sound, and Hood Canal. Natural or artificial pond sites shall be preferred to net pens due to higher survival rates experienced from pond rearing. Rigorous predatory bird control measures shall be implemented. The goal of the program is to increase the production and planting of delayed-release chinook salmon to a level of three million fish annually by the year 2000.

[1993 sp.s. c 2 § 86. Formerly RCW 75.54.040.]