Revised Code of Washington
Chapter 77.15 - Fish and Wildlife Enforcement Code.
77.15.170 - Waste of fish and wildlife—Penalty.

RCW 77.15.170
Waste of fish and wildlife—Penalty.

(1) A person is guilty of waste of fish and wildlife if the person:
(a) Takes or possesses wildlife classified as food fish, game fish, shellfish, or game birds having a value of two hundred fifty dollars or more, or wildlife classified as big game; and
(b) Recklessly allows such fish, shellfish, or wildlife to be wasted.
(2) Waste of fish and wildlife is a gross misdemeanor. Upon conviction, the department shall revoke any license or tag used in the crime and shall order suspension of the person's privileges to engage in the activity in which the person committed waste of fish and wildlife for a period of one year.
(3) It is prima facie evidence of waste if:
(a) A fish dealer purchases or engages a quantity of food fish, shellfish, or game fish that cannot be processed within sixty hours after the food fish, game fish, or shellfish are taken from the water, unless the food fish, game fish, or shellfish are preserved in good marketable condition; or
(b) A person brings a big game animal to a wildlife meat cutter and then abandons the animal. For purposes of this subsection (3)(b), a big game animal is deemed to be abandoned when its carcass is placed in the custody of a wildlife meat cutter for butchering and processing and:
(i) Having been placed in such custody for an unspecified period of time, the meat is not removed within thirty days after the wildlife meat cutter gives notice to the person who brought in the carcass or, having been so notified, the person who brought in the carcass refuses or fails to pay the agreed upon or reasonable charges for the butchering or processing of the carcass; or
(ii) Having been placed in such custody for a specified period of time, the meat is not removed at the end of the specified period or the person who brought in the carcass refuses to pay the agreed upon or reasonable charges for the butchering or processing of the carcass.

[ 2017 3rd sp.s. c 8 § 9; 2014 c 48 § 8; 2012 c 176 § 16; 1999 c 258 § 5; 1998 c 190 § 21.]
NOTES:

Finding—Intent—Effective date—2017 3rd sp.s. c 8: See notes following RCW 77.08.010.

Structure Revised Code of Washington

Revised Code of Washington

Title 77 - Fish and Wildlife

Chapter 77.15 - Fish and Wildlife Enforcement Code.

77.15.005 - Finding—Intent.

77.15.010 - Exemption for department actions.

77.15.020 - Authority to define violation of rule as infraction—Agreement to enforce certain civil infractions.

77.15.030 - Individual animal unlawfully taken—Separate offense.

77.15.040 - Jurisdiction.

77.15.050 - "Conviction" defined.

77.15.060 - Reference to chapters 7.84 and 9A.20 RCW.

77.15.065 - Authority of attorney general if prosecuting attorney defaults.

77.15.070 - Civil forfeiture of property used for violation of chapter.

77.15.075 - Enforcement authority of fish and wildlife officers—Volunteer chaplain.

77.15.080 - Fish and wildlife officers and ex officio fish and wildlife officers—Inspection authority.

77.15.085 - Seizure without warrant.

77.15.090 - Search, arrest warrant—Issuance—Execution.

77.15.092 - Arrest without warrant.

77.15.094 - Search without warrant—Seizure of evidence, property—Limitation.

77.15.096 - Inspection without warrant—Commercial fish and wildlife entities—Limitations.

77.15.098 - Willful misconduct/gross negligence—Civil liability.

77.15.100 - Seized fish, shellfish, wildlife, and covered animal species part or product—Forfeiture—Sale—Disposition of sale.

77.15.110 - Acting for commercial purposes—When—Proof.

77.15.120 - Endangered fish or wildlife—Unlawful taking—Penalty.

77.15.130 - Protected fish or wildlife—Unauthorized taking—Penalty—Criminal wildlife penalty assessment.

77.15.135 - Unlawful sale, purchase, trade, barter, or distribution of covered animal species part or product—Penalty—Report to the legislature—Adoption of rules.

77.15.150 - Poison or explosives—Unlawful use—Penalty.

77.15.160 - Infractions—Penalties.

77.15.170 - Waste of fish and wildlife—Penalty.

77.15.180 - Unlawful interference with fishing or hunting gear—Penalty.

77.15.190 - Unlawful trapping—Penalty.

77.15.191 - Revocation of trapper's license—Placement of unauthorized traps.

77.15.192 - Definitions.

77.15.194 - Unlawful traps—Penalty.

77.15.196 - Unlawful poison—Penalty.

77.15.198 - Violation of RCW 77.15.194 or 77.15.196—Penalty.

77.15.210 - Obstructing the taking of fish, shellfish, or wildlife—Penalty.

77.15.212 - Damages due to violation of RCW 77.15.210—Civil action.

77.15.230 - Department lands or facilities—Unlawful use—Penalty.

77.15.240 - Unlawful use of dogs—Penalty—Authority to take or destroy a dog—Certain hazing activities permitted.

77.15.245 - Unlawful practices—Black bear baiting—Exceptions—Illegal hunting—Use of dogs—Exceptions—Penalties.

77.15.250 - Unlawful release or possession of fish, shellfish, or wildlife—Penalty—Unlawful release of deleterious exotic wildlife—Penalty.

77.15.260 - Unlawful trafficking in fish, shellfish, or wildlife—Penalty.

77.15.265 - Unlawful possession of fish, shellfish, or wildlife knowingly taken in violation of another state's or country's laws—Penalty.

77.15.270 - Providing false information—Penalty.

77.15.280 - Reporting of fish or wildlife harvest—Rules violation—Penalty.

77.15.290 - Unlawful transportation of fish or wildlife—Penalty.

77.15.300 - Unlawful hydraulic project activities—Penalty.

77.15.310 - Unlawful failure to use or maintain approved fish guard on water diversion device—Penalty.

77.15.320 - Unlawful failure to provide, maintain, or operate fishway for dam or other obstruction—Penalty.

77.15.340 - Unlawful operation of a game farm—Penalty.

77.15.350 - Inspection and disease control of aquatic farms—Rules violation—Penalty.

77.15.360 - Unlawful interfering in department operations—Penalty.

77.15.370 - Unlawful recreational fishing in the first degree—Penalty—Criminal wildlife penalty assessment.

77.15.380 - Unlawful recreational fishing in the second degree—Penalty.

77.15.382 - Unlawful use of shellfish gear for personal use purposes—Penalty.

77.15.390 - Seaweed—Unlawful taking—Penalty.

77.15.395 - Hunter safety—Visible clothing requirement—Penalty.

77.15.400 - Unlawful hunting of wild birds—Violation of a rule requiring nontoxic shot—Penalty.

77.15.410 - Unlawful hunting of big game—Penalty.

77.15.420 - Illegally taken or possessed wildlife—Criminal wildlife penalty assessed.

77.15.425 - Fish and wildlife enforcement reward account.

77.15.430 - Unlawful hunting of wild animals—Penalty.

77.15.435 - Unlawful hunting on, retrieving hunted wildlife from, or collecting wildlife parts from the property of another—Defense—Penalty—Forfeiture and disposition of wildlife.

77.15.440 - Weapons, traps, or dogs on game reserves—Unlawful use—Penalty.

77.15.450 - Spotlighting big game—Penalty.

77.15.460 - Loaded rifle or shotgun in vehicle—Unlawful use or possession—Unlawful use of a loaded firearm—Penalty.

77.15.470 - Wildlife check stations or field inspections—Unlawful avoidance—Penalty.

77.15.480 - Certain devices declared public nuisances.

77.15.500 - Commercial fishing without a license—Penalty.

77.15.510 - Acting as a game fish guide, food fish guide, or chartering without a license—Penalty.

77.15.520 - Commercial fishing—Unlawful gear or methods—Penalty.

77.15.522 - Unlawful use of shellfish gear for commercial purposes—Penalty.

77.15.530 - Unlawful use of a nondesignated vessel—Penalty.

77.15.540 - Unlawful use of a commercial fishery license—Penalty.

77.15.550 - Violation of commercial fishing area or time—Penalty.

77.15.552 - Qualifying commercial fishing violations.

77.15.554 - License suspension review committee.

77.15.565 - Wholesale fish buyer a limited fish seller—Accounting of commercial harvest—Penalties.

77.15.568 - Secondary commercial fish receiver's failure to account for commercial harvest—Penalty.

77.15.570 - Participation of non-Indians in Indian fishery forbidden—Exceptions, definitions, penalty.

77.15.580 - Unlawful use of net to take fish—Penalty.

77.15.590 - Commercial fishing vessel—Unlawful use for recreational or charter fishing—Penalty.

77.15.600 - Engaging in commercial wildlife activity without a license—Penalty.

77.15.610 - Unlawful use of a commercial wildlife license—Penalty.

77.15.620 - Engaging in fish dealing activity without a license—Penalty.

77.15.630 - Unlawful fish and shellfish catch accounting—Penalty.

77.15.640 - Unlawful wholesale fish buying and dealing—Penalty.

77.15.650 - Unlawful purchase or use of a license—Penalty.

77.15.660 - Unlawful use of scientific permit—Penalty.

77.15.670 - Suspension of department privileges—Violation—Penalty—Violations of child support-based suspensions.

77.15.675 - Hunting while intoxicated—Penalty.

77.15.680 - Department authority to suspend privileges—Form and procedure.

77.15.690 - Department authority to revoke licenses.

77.15.700 - Grounds for department revocation and suspension of recreational license—Appeal.

77.15.710 - Conviction for assault—Revocation of licenses and suspension of privileges.

77.15.720 - Discharge of firearm, bow, or crossbow while hunting—In a manner that injures a person or that kills or causes substantial bodily harm to livestock—Suspension of hunting privileges—Appeal.

77.15.730 - Wildlife violator compact citations and convictions.

77.15.732 - Citations from wildlife violator compact party state—Failure to comply.

77.15.740 - Protection of southern resident orca whales—Unlawful activities—Penalty.

77.15.750 - Unlawful use of a department permit—Penalty.

77.15.760 - Suspension of a master hunter permit—Appeal hearing.

77.15.770 - Unlawful trade in shark fins—Penalty.

77.15.780 - Disposition of judicially forfeited seized property.

77.15.790 - Negligently feeding, attempting to feed, or attracting large wild carnivores to land or a building—Infraction.

77.15.792 - Intentionally feeding or attempting to feed large wild carnivores or intentionally attracting large wild carnivores to land or a building—Penalty.

77.15.800 - Engaging in wildlife rehabilitation without a permit—Penalty.

77.15.803 - Inspection of aquatic conveyance.

77.15.805 - Violation of an invasive species law—Warrant.

77.15.807 - Invasive species in or on water body or property—Warrant.

77.15.809 - Unlawful use of invasive species in the second degree—Penalty.

77.15.811 - Unlawful use of invasive species in the first degree—Penalty.

77.15.813 - Unlawfully engaging in fishing guide activity—Penalty.

77.15.815 - Unlawfully engaging in commercial whale watching—Penalty.

77.15.900 - Short title.