Who may be licensed. Certain Ore gon licenses valid. such license shall be granted. No license shall be issued to any person who is not a citizen of the United States, unless such person has declared his intention to become such one year prior thereto, and is and has been for one year immediately prior to the time of the application for license an actual resident of the State of Washington, nor shall any license be issued to any corporation, unless such corporation shall be authorized to do business in this state: Provided, That nothing in this act shall be construed to prevent the issuance of licenses to women, minors of the age of eigteen years or more, or Indians, who possess the qualifications of citizenship and residence herein before required, nor to prevent the renewal of any licenses by persons now holding the same: Provided, Licenses issued by the State of Oregon shall be deemed valid as to gill nets for use on the Columbia river as though issued by the fish commissioner of this state. No more than three licenses shall be issued to any one person, firm or corporation. Licenses may be assigned or transferred to any person or corporation entitled to hold licenses under the provisions of this act: Provided, That notice is given to the fish commissioner of said transfer or assignment by the transferee within twenty days from the date of said transfer or assignment: And provided further, If such notice of transfer is not given such license shall be void. No person or corporation shall own, operate or construct, or cause to be constructed or Size of mesh. operated any pound net, trap, weir, fish wheel or other fixed appliance for the catching of salmon on the waters of the Columbia river, or its tributaries, or in any of the waters of the State of Washington, the meshes of which are less than three inches stretch measure. Transfer. License number to be posted. SEC. 3. Any person owning, operating or using any pound net, trap, weir, fish wheel or other fixed appliance for taking salmon, shall cause to be placed in a conspicuous place on said pound net, trap, weir, fish wheel or other fixed appliance, the number designated by the fish commissioner at the time of issuing the license for the operation thereof; said number to consist of black figures, not less than six inches in length, painted on white ground; any person owning, or operating or using any seine, purse net, gill net or set net for the purpose of taking salmon, shall cause to be branded the corks of each end of the seine, purse net, gill net or set net, and upon the cork nearest the center thereof, the number designated by the fish commissioner at the time of issuing the license for the operation of said seine or net, said number to consist of figures not less than one-half inch in length, and shall also cause to be placed upon each side of the bow of the boat used to operate such seine or net such license number, preceded by a capital "W" the same to consist of black figures not less than six inches in length, painted on white ground. All pound nets or traps shall conspicuously show at night time, between sunset and sunrise, a bright white light. lead. SEC. 4. No lead of any pound net, trap, fish wheel or Length of other fixed appliance used or operated in the waters of the Columbia River or its tributaries, Willapa Harbor, or Gray's Harbor in this state for catching salmon shall exceed eight hundred feet in length, and in the waters of Puget Sound two thousand five hundred feet in length. There shall be an end passage way of at Passageways. least thirty feet, and a lateral passageway of at least nine hundred feet, between all pound nets, traps, weirs, fish wheels or other fixed appliances hereafter constructed and placed within the waters of the Columbia River and its tributaries, Willapa Harbor and Gray's Harbor within this state, and there shall be an end passage way of at least six hundred feet and a later[al] passage way of at least twenty-four hundred feet between all pound nets, traps, weirs or other fixed appliances hereafter constructed and placed within the waters of Puget Sound in this state, for the purpose of determining end passage way a line shall be drawn. parallel to the general direction of the shore line for one-half mile on either side of a proposed location, which parallel line shall intersect the outer end of any location theretofore made, and maintained as by law Fisherman's license. Who may receive. Fee. provided, and a new location shall be driven at least six hundred feet distant at right angles from such base line. SEC. 5. Any person, other than minors under eighteen years of age, who desires to work as a fisherman in any of the waters of this state on or with any of the fishing appliances mentioned in this act, whether said. person be the owner of an appliance or an employe of an owner, shall obtain a fisherman's license from the fish commissioner of this state as follows: Such applicant shall present in writing to the fish commissioner his application, which application shall be accompanied by the affidavit of said applicant that he is a citizen of the United States, or has declared his intention to become such one year prior to the making of such application and that he is and has been, for six months next preceding such application, a bona fide resident of the State of Washington, or of any adjoining state, and shall pay to the said fish commissioner a license fee of one dollar when said application is presented, and thereupon a license shall issue to such applicant authorizing him to engage in taking and catching fish in any of the waters of the state not prohibited under the provisions of this act. In addition to the license aforesaid, any licensed fisherman desiring to engage in the business of operating a fish trap, pound net, set net, gill net, fish wheel, seine or other appliance not prohibited by law, for the purpose of catching fish, shall make application in writing to the said fish commissioner, specifying with convenient certainty the character of the appliance that applicant desires to obtain a license for, together with the number of his individual license as provided in this act, and upon the payment of a license fee as hereinafter provided, the fish commissioner shall issue to such person a license to operate the character of appliance desired in said application. SEC. 6. All licenses provided in sections two and three of this act shall be issued as follows: Upon application therefor by any person, an annual license shall be issued by the fish commissioner for fixed and other appliances for catching salmon or other food fishes as herein provided, which shall entitle the holder to operate said appliances for the term of one year in the waters of this state, wherein such appliances are not prohibited by law. The following fees for such licenses shall be collected by the fish commissioner and paid over to the state treasurer on or before the tenth of each month, and by him turned into the fish hatchery fund, to-wit: For each drag seine not exceeding two hundred and fifty feet in length ... $2.50 5.00 10 00 For each drag seine more than two hundred and fifty feet 15.00 and not exceeding twenty-five hundred feet in length.. 25 00 For each drag seine more than twenty-five hundred feet in length License fees. 30 00 For each first class pound net, trap or weir on the Columbia river.... 20 00 For each second class pound net, trap or weir on the Columbia river.... 10 00 For each pound net, trap or weir on Willapa Harbor and Gray's Harbor 10 00 For each pound net, trap or weir (except on the Columbia river, on Willapa Harbor or Gray's Harbor). 50 00 For each scow fish wheel.. 15 00 Stationary fish wheels shall pay $25.00 for first class wheels and $10.00 for second class wheels; all classifications of wheels, pound nets and purse seines to be determined by the fish commissioner: Provided, Where any trap or pound net is so constructed as to take fish Double at each end of its main lead it shall obtain and pay for a license especially permitting the taking of fish at both ends, for which it shall pay a license fee double license fee. Additional fees. Sworn statement. Packer's license. Statement to the amount of a pound net or trap taking fish at one end only. In addition to the foregoing license charges there shall also be paid by the owners of each trap, pound net or fish wheel operated in the waters of the state, the sum of one dollar for each one thousand fish taken by such trap, pound net or fish wheel, and the said additional fee shall be paid on or before the tenth day of each month. It shall be the duty of every person owning or operating any trap, pound net or fish wheel to furnish to the fish commissioners on or before the tenth day of each month a sworn statement giving the number and location of such trap or pound net and a detailed statement of the actual number of fish caught at such trap or pound net, and in addition to answer such questions as the fish commissioner shall propound with reference thereto, which statement shall be filed with and retained by the fish commissioner. SEC. 7. Every person, firm or corporation engaged in the business of buying and selling, packing and preserving or otherwise dealing in salmon other than canners thereof, shall pay as a license the sum of thirty cents per ton gross weight or in the round of said fishes bought and sold, packed or preserved or otherwise dealt in: Provided, No person engaged in the business aforesaid shall pay less than two dollars and fifty cents per annum. It shall be the duty of each be furnished. person, firm or corporation affected by the provisions of this section to render to the fish commissioner of the State of Washington, on or before the tenth day of each month, on blanks to be furnished by the said fish commissioner, a detailed statement showing gross amount of fresh fish in the round bought and sold, packed and preserved or otherwise dealt in during the preceding month, and each person shall pay to the said commissioner the amount due under the provisions hereof, on or before the tenth of each month, and a failure or neglect to do so shall constitute a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof the offender may be punished as hereinafter provided. |