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INTRODUCED. PROPOSED BY: Hawley
BY: Roehl
DATE: August 18, 1983
RESOLUTION N0. 83 -37
A RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF WHATCOM COUNTY
DECLARING ITS DISAPPROVAL OF SALMON MANAGEMENT
TREATY
WHEREAS, fishing is an industry vital to the economic health
of Whatcom County; and
WHEREAS, a Treaty has been negotiated which is proposed for
adoption by the governments of Canada and the United States
of America for the purpose of effecting management and
conservation of the Pacific Salmon fishery resource; and
WHEREAS, that Treaty proposes a principle for division of
the Salmon resources between Canada and the United States,
namely:
...each party to receive benefits equivalent to
the production of Salmon originating in its
waters.
(Art. III, Sec. 1. (b)); and
WHEREAS, this principle drastically shifts by 1985 the
traditional and historical split of a certain element
of the Salmon resource between the parties, namely the
Fraser River Sockeye and Pink Salmon runs; and
WHEREAS, this shift presents the prospect of drastically
reducing the Puget Sound Gillnet and Purse Seine Sockeye
and Pink Salmon industry;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Whatcom County Council:
1. That the Department of State is urged to reconsider the
split proposed to be made of the Fraser River Salmon
Resource after 1984 and revise the Treaty to reflect.
a split more in keeping with the historical division
of this resource; and
2. Copies of this Resolution shall be transmitted to the
Governor of Washington, the State's Congressional
delegation, and the County's State Legislative delegation
attention.
PASSED this 18th
ATTEST:,j,
Clerk of the Counci
day of August , 1983.
WHATCOM COUNTY COUNCI
WHArfC0M COUNTY, 4AS4,1
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