RCW 77.12.010: Limitation on prohibiting fishing with bait or artificial lures.

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Washington Code › Title 77 › Chapter 12 › Section 010

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The commission shall not adopt rules that categorically prohibit fishing with bait or artificial lures in streams, rivers, beaver ponds, and lakes except that the commission may adopt rules and regulations restricting fishing methods upon a determination by the director that an individual body of water or part thereof clearly requires a fishing method prohibition to conserve or enhance the fisheries resource or to provide selected fishing alternatives.

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