77.32.440 - Enhancement programs -- Funding levels -- Rules -- Deposit to warm water game fish account. - Washington Statutes

Enhancement programs — Funding levels — Rules — Deposit to warm water game fish account.

(1) The commission shall adopt rules to continue funding current enhancement programs at levels equal to the participation of licensees in each of the individual enhancement programs. All enhancement funding will continue to be deposited directly into the individual accounts created for each enhancement.

     (2) In implementing subsection (1) of this section with regard to warm water game fish, the department shall deposit in the warm water game fish account the sum of one million two hundred fifty thousand dollars each fiscal year during the fiscal years 1999 and 2000, based on two hundred fifty thousand warm water anglers. Beginning in fiscal year 2001, and each year thereafter, the deposit to the warm water game fish account established in this subsection shall be adjusted annually to reflect the actual numbers of license holders fishing for warm water game fish based on an annual survey of licensed anglers from the previous year conducted by the department beginning with the April 1, 1999, to March 31, 2000, license year survey.

[1999 c 235 § 2; 1998 c 191 § 13.]

Notes: Effective date -- 1999 c 235: See note following RCW 77.44.050.

Effective date -- 1998 c 191: See note following RCW 77.32.400.