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RESOLUTION NO. 189 -1992
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A RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF
MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA, DIRECTING THE MARINE FISHERIES
:GOMMISSION TO RECORD MONROE COUNTY'S EXTREME OBJECTION
TO THE MARINE FISHERIES COMMISSION'S ACTION OF
EXPANDING THE SPINY LOBSTER SPORT SEASON.
WHEREAS,
the
Florida
Legislature has provided that the
has rule-making power with respect to
Marine Fisheries Commission
marine life; and
WHEREAS, this rule-making power is subj ect to the final
approval of the Governor and Cabinet sitting as the head of the
Department of Natural Resources; and
WHEREAS, Chapter 46-24 of the Florida Administrative Code
provides for a sport season for recreational harvesters of spiny
lobster, which season shall occur on the last full weekend prior
to August 1st of each year; and
WHEREAS, the said sport season has visited upon Monroe
County devastation by way of inundation of the County with
vehicles, illegal campers, boats and divers, which during the
said 48 hours, have plundered the spiny lobster population,
greatly damaging the underwater resources of the County, and
decimating the population of the spiny lobster; and
WHEREAS, the said "sports divers" have despoiled the County
with trash and garbage and have overtaxed our law enforcement
capabilities; and
WHEREAS, the latest action of expanding the spiny lobster
sport season by adding Wednesday and Thursday as a federal sport
season is totally inconsistent with the Monroe County
Commission's previous action in Resolution No. 160-1991,
unanimously adopted on April 24, 1991, requesting that the
so-called sport season be abolished altogether; and
WHEREAS, these combined decisions have now expanded the
sport diving season to five days to the detriment of Monroe
County, its citzens and the spiny lobster; now, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF
MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA, as follows:
Section 1. The Board hereby directs the Marine Fisheries
Commission to record Monroe County's extreme obj ection to any
expansion of the spiny lobster sport season.
Section 2. The Board hereby requests the Marine
Fisheries Commission to adopt a resolution subject to the
approval of Governor Chiles and his Cabinet to completely
terminate the spiny lobster sport season, which in the name of
conservation has been the guise of perpetrating an outrage on the
population of the spiny lobster and caused great damage and
hardship on the residents of Monroe County, in addition to the
environmental massacre which ensues.
Section 3. The Clerk of the Board is hereby directed to
send a copy of this Resolution by facsimile transmission and
forward a certified copy of this Resolution by U. S. Mail to
Thomas H. Fraser, Ph.D., Chairman, Marine Fisheries Commission,
2540 Executive Center Circle, West, Suite 106, Tallahassee,
Florida 3230l.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Board of County Commissioners of
Monroe County, Florida, at a regular meeting of said Board held
on the 1st day of April, 1992.
Mayor Harvey Yes
Mayor Pro Tern London Yes
Commissioner Cheal Yes
Commissioner Jones Yes
Commissioner Stormont Yes
(SEAL)
ATTEST: DANNY L. KOLHAGE, CLERK
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
OF MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA
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