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bird, or fish, or endangered speoies of fish or icildlife or any part thereof or any 

 article made in tchole or part from the skin, hide, or other parts of any en- 

 dangered species of fish or wildlife: PROVIDED, That nothing contained in this 

 section shall prohibit any person from buying, selling, or shipping any lawfully 

 tagged or sealed game animal, game bird, or game fish purchased from a licensed 



game farmer. 



Any person violating this section shall be guilty of a gross misdemeanor and 

 upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than two hundred 

 fifty dollars and not more than one thousand dollars or by imprisonment in the 

 county jail for not less than thirty days and not more than one year or by both 

 such fine and imprisonment. ^. a. 



New Section.— Sec. 5. There is added to chapter 77.08 RCW a new section to 



read as follows : . • « ^ 



As used in this title or anv rule or regulation of the commission managed 

 marine mammals" shall include all mammals of the order cetacea and the sub- 

 order pinnipedia including but not limited to whales, porpoises, dolphins, seals 

 ni-t/i ^P'51 lions 

 Netc section.— Sec. 6. There is added to chapter 77.12 ROW a new section to 



i-ead as follows : , . 



The commission shall from time to time, adopt, promulgate, amend, or repeal 

 and enforce reasonable rules and regulations governing the time, place, and 

 manner or prohibiting the capture or taking of managed marine mammals, the 

 quantities, species, sex and size that may be captured or taken, and the trans- 

 iwrtation, sale, and confinement of managed marine mammals. 



The commission may, acting through the director, issue permits for the taking 

 or capture of managed marine mammals for scientific research, display, or prop- 

 agation purposes : PROVIDED, That a managed marine mammal may be taken 

 without permit when it constitutes a threat to human life or is causing substan- 

 tial damage to private property. 



New section.— Sec. 7. There is added to chapter 77.32 RCW a new section to 

 read as follows : 



It shall be unlawful for any person to attempt to capture or to capture killer 

 whales, Orcinus orca, without first having procured from the commission a permit 

 to be known as a killer whale permit. The fee for retaining a killer whale shall be 

 one thousand dollars for each such whale: PROVIDED, That the commission 

 may waive the permit for any organization capturing a killer whale for scientific 

 purposes and not for profit. Said fees shall be credited to the general fund. 



Passed the House May 6, 1971. 



Speaker of the House. 

 Passed the Senate May 4, 1971. 



John A. Chebbeeg, 

 President of the Senate. 

 Approved May 20, 1971. 



Daniel J. Evans, 

 Governor of the state of Washington. 



The next witness is Mrs. Roofer Stevens. 



Mrs. Stevens, we are happy to welcome you to the committee for such 

 statement as you choose to give. 



If you have anyone with you that you would like to have at the wit- 

 ness table it would be quite appropriate to bring them forward. 



Please identify yourself fully and any of your associates for pur- 

 poses of the record. 



STATEMENT OF CHRISTINE STEVENS, SECRETARY, SOCIETY FOR 

 ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEGISLATION, WASHINGTON, B.C. 



Mrs. Stevens. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I am Christine Stevens, 

 Secretary for the Protection of Sea Mammals. 



Mi"s. Barbara Gould has just brought to the members of the commit- 

 te& copies of an article on the humpback whale which appeared in the 



