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Committee approves Fish and Game housekeeping bill, adds 'sea duck hunting area' carve-out
Summary
The House Fish and Game Committee approved SB 32 with an amendment that narrows a provision allowing shooting of injured or crippled waterfowl from a motorized craft to apply specifically "in the sea duck hunting area." The bill also updates notice posting to include newspaper websites and makes other Fish and Game rule clarifications.
Senator Howard Pearl and Fish and Game staff described SB 32 to the House Fish and Game Committee as a departmental housekeeping bill that would modernize public notice requirements and harmonize state rules with federal regulations.
"This would allow the department to post public hearing notices required by law to be posted digitally on a newspaper website," Senator Howard Pearl said, noting many publications are now online-only. He told the committee the bill also removes the word "brook" from a trout reference so statutory language covers all trout species, authorizes the Fish and Game executive director to set certain fisheries habitat fees by rule, and would…
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