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1 <br />W <br />` na vead <br />ANGLERS CLUB, Inc. • :::: <br />P. O. Box 365 t'_.14). <br />VERO BEACH, FLORIDA - 32960 <br />CERTIFICATE OF RESOLUTIONS <br />=K 62 PAGE 333 <br />Member of <br />INTERNATIONAL <br />GAME FISH ASSOC <br />The undersigned, Gerald Wegner, President, Juliana <br />Haney, Vice President and Robert Herzog, Legislation <br />Chairman of the Vero Beach Anglers Club, do hereby <br />certify that at a regular meeting of the Vero Beach Anglers <br />Club, duly held on the 22nd. day of August, 1985, the following <br />preambles and resolutions were unanimously adopted: <br />WHEREAS, we do fully realize the grass flats are suffering <br />from polution and agricultural chemical run-off, and that the <br />grass flats are vital to certain fish species such as Channel <br />Bass, Spotted Sea Trout, Snook, etc., and the species they <br />consume in the various stages of their growth such as Pinfish, <br />Pigfish, finger bullet, shrimp, etc. We also feel the gill <br />netters funther deplete the life of the grass flats by dragging <br />their gill net weights over them, mowing the grass or tearing <br />it out by the roots with their -propellers; and <br />WHEREAS, a noticeable steady decline in the sport fisherman's <br />catch over the last several years is quite obvious, continued <br />use of gill nets will certainly have its long term negative <br />effect on the sport fishing industry; and <br />WHEREAS, a sport fisherman must release his under sized fish <br />alive to await its legal size, the gill netter usually releases <br />the same size of fish dead because of suffocation. Gill nets <br />kill all fish dntrapped in them whether they are protected or <br />-unprotected, keepers or undersized; and <br />WHEREAS, a gill net is a knovm entrapment for Manatees, a <br />large gentle mammal on the Florida endangered species list and <br />one that has been legally protected since 1907. They can get <br />completely enmeshed in the gill nets and drown or starve; and <br />WHEREAS, most of the gill netting done in the Indian River <br />County is done by netters from outside this county, mainly St. <br />Lucie County. They pour into the county before sundown and are <br />gone at sunup with hundreds of pounds of fish. <br />NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that this organization is <br />inalterably opposed to the practice of the use of gill netting <br />in the Indian River. <br />FURTHER RESOLVED, that an ordinance be adopted, by the <br />Indian River County Commission, making illegal the use of gill <br />nets in the Indian River. <br />IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Gerald Wegner, Juliana Haney <br />and Robert Herzog, officers of the Vero Beach Anglers <br />Club as specified above, have attested to the due adoption <br />of the foregoing preambles and resolutions and further <br />certify that the same -have not been rescinded or <br />amended and are still in full force and effect. <br />Dated: September 12,1985, <br />48 <br />_I <br />Gerald Wegner, <br />Pres ent <br />:'% ) )� )•I •)t ►) ) <br />Juliana Haney, <br />Vice Presi't ft <br />Robert Herzog, <br />Legis?4tLdn Chairman <br />48 <br />_I <br />