Resolution 082-2002
Commissioner Neugent
RESOLUTION NO. 082 - 2002
A RESOLUTION OF THE MONROE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
SUPPORTING A CHANGE TO LEGISLATION SUPPORTING A PROHIBITION OF
LOBSTERING ON AND WITHIN THE WATERS OF ALL MAN-MADE CANALS,
BASINS, OR MARINAS WITHIN THE JURISDICTION OF MONROE COUNTY,
FLORIDA, INCLUDING ITS MUNICIPALITIES.
WHEREAS, an increasing number of residents and visitors to the Florida Keys have
registered grave concerns for real risks to life and safety due to the allowed practice of taking
lobster within man-made water bodies such as canals, basins, and marinas;
WHEREAS, the taking of state resources (Le. lobster and finfish) is regulated by the state
of Florida and its agency, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC); now, therefore
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, MONROE COUNTY,
FLORIDA THAT:
In order to make the taking of lobster and finfish safer and to reduce the number of
complaints from property owners that are adversely impacted by diving activities, we request that
the FWC take the following actions:
1. Prohibit the taking by diving of state resources, such as lobster and finfish, on and within
the confined waters of Monroe County, such as clearly demarcated man-made canals and
basins or its marinas. The waters affected by this prohibition should include the confined
waters within the municipal jurisdictions of Key West, Marathon, Key Colony Beach, and
Islamorada.
2. That consideration of this request should be taken up as soon as possible at the next
meeting of the FWC.
In PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Board of County Commissioners, Monroe County, Florida at
~ a r@!fularume~ng of said Board held on the 13th day of February, A.D., 2002.
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