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CITY OF SEWARD, ALASKA
RESOLUTION NO. 90-035
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A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
SEWARD, ALASKA, REQUESTING THAT THE STATE OF ALASKA,
DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME, RETAIN THE FIELD
BIOLOGIST POSITION VITAL TO THE SEWARD AREA
WHEREAS, the State of Alaska, Department of Fish and Game,
Field Biologist position located in the Seward District has been
maintained since the advent of Statehood more than thirty years
ago; and
WHEREAS, the position filled a vital need in the community by
upgrading the resources of the sport fishing industry enjoyed by
hundreds of thousands of tourists and residents throughout Alaska
and the nation; and
WHEREAS, the Resurrection Bay drainage area ranks second only
to the Kenai River area in participation in sport fishing and other
recreational use; and
WHEREAS, the position represents an important access to the
Department's Resources of information to the public by maintaining
an office staff year round to provide important services such as
regulations, permitting, inspections, tagging, creel census,
species, and statistics important to sustaining a year round sport
recreation fishery; and
WHEREAS, the office also serves as a public contact
unheralded growth of the entire fisheries industry
commercial, scientific and tourist related; and
for the
sport,
WHEREAS, the establishment of a full time officer based in
Seward would double the ability to enforce, protect and inspect the
fisheries industry in the Seward area; and
WHEREAS, there exists a need for biological study and data
gathering on the rockfish and bottomfish industry in the Resurrec-
tion Bay/Outer District Eastern Area; and
WHEREAS, the Board of Fisheries and Department of Fish and
Game have requested reductions in catch limits on two separate
occasions due to the dwindling stock of rock and bottomfish for the
area in 1989;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF SEWARD, ALASKA, that:
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CITY OF SEWARD, ALASKA
RESOLUTION NO. 90-035
Section 1.
position of field
as the history of
The City of Seward hereby requests that the
biologist be made fully operational and funded
the office dictates;
Section 2. The City Clerk shall forward a copy of this
resolution to the Governor, State Legislators, Commissioner of the
Department of Fish and Game, Kenai Peninsula Borough, and the
Mayors of the cities in the Kenai Peninsula Borough.
Section 3. This resolution shall take effect immediately upon
its adoption.
PASSED AND APPROVED by the City Council of the city of Seward,
Alaska, this 9th day of April, 1990.
THE CITY OF SEWARD, ALASKA
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W~l ~am c. Noll, Mayor
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
ABSTAIN:
Burgess, Dunham, Hilton, Meehan, Noll, Sieminski, Simutis
None
None
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ATTEST:
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Perkins Coie, Attorneys for the
city of Seward, Alaska
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Patr~c~a J. Jones
Acting City Clerk
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Fre B. Arv~dson
City Attorney
(City Seal)
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