Fish and Fishing: Washington bills, 2025 and 2026
Legislative staff filed 24 measures from the 2025-26 session under Fish and Fishing. Each one is listed below with the description staff wrote for it, and measures with a page of their own are linked.
- HB 1208 · Habitat restoration permit pathway program, creating and making habitat recovery pilot program permanent
- HB 1309 · Integrated pest management research program, addressing burrowing shrimp and creating governing board
- HB 1325 · Enforcement, expanding for various violations
- HB 1955 · Licenses, raising youth age threshold for requiring
- HB 2003 · Columbia river salmon and steelhead endorsement, requiring for persons 15 or older
- HB 2031 · Licenses, modifying including certain ages and fees
- HB 2554 · Emergency management of salmon and steelhead trout statutes repealed
- HB 2598 · Salmon advisory commission established to understand salmon and steelhead recovery
- HB 2659 · Shellfish fee increases barred
- HB 2737 · Shellfish fee limits set
- HJM 4004 · Marine Mammal Protection Act, modifying to allow greater flexibility
- SB 5076 · Shrimp, establishing a Puget Sound nonspot shrimp pot fishery license
- SB 5155 · Habitat restoration permit pathway program, creating and making habitat recovery pilot program permanent
- SB 5259 · Commercial fishing, sales/use tax exemption for bait
- SB 5322 · Integrated pest management research program, addressing burrowing shrimp and creating governing board
- SB 5475 · Salmon recovery, funding prioritization
- SB 5583 · Licenses, modifying fees
- SB 5599 · Commercial fishery licenses, requiring establishment per report
- SB 5804 · Salmon, new chapter for habitat restoration obligations
- SB 5996 · Shellfish fee increases barred
- SB 6207 · Anadromous fisheries stock reduction prohibited
- SB 6241 · Steelhead wild broodstock conservation programs required
- SB 6318 · Shellfish fee limits set
- SR 8677 · Blessing of the fleet
All topics · All 2025-26 Washington State bills
Source: the Washington State Legislature’s Topical Index. OlympiaTrack is an independent bill-tracking service and is not affiliated with the Legislature.