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The Gazette-Times, Hepprier, Oregon, Thursday, June 21. 1979 THIRTEEN
Department of
Fish & Wildlife
eduction in daily trout bag limit asked
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The fisheries staff at the
Department of Fish and
Wildlife will be recommend
ing a reduction in the state
wide general stream trout bag
Highway, school funding and nurse
practioner bills near end
By Rep. Bill Bellamy
As the 1979 Oregon Legis
lature winds down, many bills
are being considered on the
House floor. In the past week
several bills of special interest
to District 55 cleared the
legislature.
The House approved HB
2681 which limits the number
of state employees to 1.6
percent of the state's popula
tion after January 1, 1980.
The Legislature made a
committment to Oregonians to
limit the growth of state
government. This measure is
a long-range approach to keep
that promise.
In past years, the growth of
state government has far
outpaced the 1.6 percent
figure. Presently, Oregon tax
payers employ nearly 40
thousand state employees or
1.603 percent of the state
population.
Legislators felt cutbacks in
government employment
, would disrupt the delivery of
necessary services. If you will
recall, in California during the
peak of the tax revolt,
politicians began threatening
the public with massive lay
offs and firings of government
employees who deliver vital
fire, police and health ser
vices. Oregon legislators be
lieve California's response
was a knee-jerk, threaten-the-public
reaction that was both
irresponsible and impractical.
Instead, the Oregon House of
Representatives agreed to this
long-term method of sensibil
ity limiting future growth in
state government. The bill
now goes to the Senate for
approval.
SJR 7 also moved into the
spotlight this week. The bill
will channel all highway
revenues into road construc
tion and maintenance. Pre
sently, more than $60 million
of the gas and weight-mile tax
revenues is spent every two
years on the state police, park,
recreational, scenic and his
toric uses, and their publi
cizing. That money should be
spent to upgrade our roads.
This bill will not levy new
taxes, but rather will shift the
funding from one tax source to
another. The bill will go before
the Oregon voters for ap
proval in 1980.
State funding of Oregon
public schools was decided
this week as both the House
and the Senate approved SB
5509. The $803 million dollar
appropriation bill will pay an
average of 42 percent of local
school operating costs over
the next bienhium.
It seems that for the first
time the legislature put a limit
on the amount of basic school
support it will give a school
district.
The bill also sets a base
$1 ,949 per student which it will
contribute state basic school
support. That base will not be
allowed to exceed 9 percent
per pupil in the future.
Portions of district budget
that exceed that will not be
eligible for state school sup
port. The rights of nurse practi
tioners would be expanded
under HB 2806. At the present
time, nurse practitioners may
only prescribe drugs in rural, '
' areas. HB 2806 will grant
prescription-writing prive-
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limit from ten per day to five
when next year's angling
regulations are considered.
Staff biologist Jim Griggs
says there has been no change
in the general bag limit now in
leges to nurse practitioners in
all areas of the state, with the
exception of hospitals which
may determine their own
hospital pharmacy policy. The
bill establishes an advisory
council to develop rules and
regulations governing nurse
practitioners' jurisdiction in
writing prescriptions.
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effect on most state waters
since before 1950. During that
same period sales of angling
licenses have increased four
foldfrom about 200,000 in
1951 to 900,000 in 1976. In those
Rural areas of the state will
have a strong voice on the
council. One of the two
physicians must practice in a
rural area, and one of the two
nurse practitioners must rep
resent a rural area. Finally,
rural areas of the state are
getting the equal representa
tion we seek.
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streams where the Depart-
ment has done population
studies, relatively few older
age-class fish are being found,
indicating excessive harvest.
During the time angling
pressure has grown, Griggs
adds, quality of stream habi-
As noted earlier, the session
is nearing final flood stage.
Now is when bills become
buried in the final close down.
If there are bills of special
interest to you, please contact
rne with your concerns. I am
working hard for the passage
of beneficial legislation for
District 55.
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tat for fish production has
improved on very few
streams. In most it has
declined over the years.
Particularly on those
streams to be managed for
wild trout a ten-fish bag limit
can't be biologically justified,
Griggs says, though a larger
bag limit might still be
retained on some streams
where trout are managed with
annual plants of fingerling
trout.
The reduced bag limit will
not be proposed for most
standing-water bodies such as
lakes and reservoirs except on
those where a specific biologi
cal need for a reduced catch
exists.
The differential bag limit
may be one way to shift some
angling pressure from
streams to standing water
bodies which can often sup
port much heavier angling
pressure and harvest. If
angling pressure on streams is
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reduced, Griggs says, the
Department may, on those
streams managed with catch-able-sized
trout, be able to
stock fewer trout at a time,
but on more frequent occa
sions. A five-fish bag limit is
already in effect on some state
waters, notably those in
southeastern Oregon. Real
istically, Griggs says, a re
duction in bag limit will not
impact most anglers because
most anglers don't often catch
the legal limit. It has often
been said that 10 percent of the
anglers catch 90 percent of the
fish. The percentages may not
be perfectly accurate but the
concept is true and this is the
segment of the angling public
that would be mainly affected.
A public meeting is sched
uled in Department head
quarters, 506 SW Mill Street in
Portland, on July 11 at 7:30
p.m. where the bag limit
reduction will be further
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discussed and public comment
asked.
Also at that meeting the
Fish Division staff will review
ten more streams or parts of
streams being evaluated un
der the state's wild fish policy.
The staff will have manage
ment recommendations for
each within the context of the
policy which was adopted last
year.
There are three options
under the policy. First, man
agement of wild fish only must
be given first and highest
consideration. Next, if there
are reasons why optimum fish
populations cannot be main
tained under natural produc
tions alone, the staff may
recommend the use of some
hatchery fish in addition to
wild stocks. In this option,
efforts must still be made to
preserve the integrity of wild
stocks. A final option is to
manage for hatchery fish
only.
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Management abstracts
upon which future plans will
be based are being prepared
for the following streams; the
Little Deschutes River up
stream from Gilchrist Pond,
Crooked River from Prineville
to Prineville city limits, North
Fork of the Middle Fork
Willamette River, Elk Creek
(Clatsop County near Cannon
Beach), Neskowin Creek,
Yachats River, Siuslaw River,
Middle Creek (tributary of the
North Fork Coquille River),
Winchuck River "and Drift
Creek (Alsea Bay tributary).
Management proposals for
the ten stream sections under
discussion for this year will be
considered for adoption by the
Fish and Wildlife Commission
in an August 1 public meeting
beginning at 2 p.m. in Depart
ment headquarters in Port
land. The public is welcome to
attend that meeting as well as
the discussion meeting on July
11.
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