State wildlife officials have compiled a list of priorities for improving fishing and hunting in Washington, linked to the proposed license fee increase. Among them are: • Maintaining hatchery production in the lower Columbia River including a renovation of Kalama Falls Hatchery in Cowlitz County. • Increased law enforcement including efforts to suppress a growing black market for seafood. • Completing an inventory of high-priority fish passage barriers in Western Washington and development of a systematic plan for correcting them. • Recovering Puget Sound steelhead populations including efforts to determine the causes of poor juvenile survival. • Monitoring predation of chinook and sockeye in Lake Washington and steelhead in several other areas. • Increasing hatchery production in Puget Sound and the coast to provided better fishing for recreational and commercial fleets. • Increasing monitoring of salmon and steelhead fisheries in the lower Columbia River. • Developing a hatchery fall chinook fishery in Hood Canal. • Improving catch accounting and escapement efforts in Willapa Bay and Grays Harbor to allow for more fishing. • Development of free applications for mobile devices that would allow anglers to determine quickly the current rules for a particular body of water or for hunters easy access to data. • An incentive program to encourage private timber companies to hold access fees to moderate levels plus expansion of the Feel Free to Hunt and Hunt by Reservation programs. • Development of a target-shooting range in central Washington, hoping to reduce dispersed target shooting within the boundaries of some state wildlife areas. • A removal of the cap on payments the department can make to counties in lieu of property taxes on state lands.
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