Section 76959.  


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  • If the council program is submitted to a review referendum under Section 76958, the director shall find that commercial salmon vessel operators statewide have approved the council program if the director finds either of the following:

    (1) Sixty-five percent or more of the total number of commercial salmon vessel operators, who voted in the review referendum and who harvested 51 percent or more of the total amount of salmon landed during the previous fiscal year by all commercial salmon vessel operators who voted in the review referendum, approve the program.

    (2) Fifty-one percent or more of the total number of commercial salmon vessel operators, who voted in the review referendum and who harvested 65 percent or more of the total amount of salmon landed during the previous fiscal year by all commercial salmon vessel operators who voted in the review referendum, approve the program.

(Amended by Stats. 1989, Ch. 53, Sec. 25. Effective June 22, 1989.)