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                                           SENATE JOINT MEMORIAL NO. 133

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State of Washington                              49th Legislature                              1986 Regular Session

By Senators Bottiger, Moore, Granlund and Metcalf

Read first time 1/22/86 and referred to Committee on Natural Resources.

TO THE HONORABLE RONALD REAGAN, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, AND TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE AND THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, AND TO THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES AND TO THE HAWAII STATE LEGISLATURE, IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED:

          We, your Memorialists, the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Washington, in legislative session assembled, respectfully represent and petition as follows:

          WHEREAS, Remote sensing of the ocean is playing an increasingly important role in fishery research and fish harvesting along the Pacific Coast of the United States and Canada; and

          WHEREAS, Satellite sensors give a unique view of the ocean surface and provide extensive and detailed images of sea surface temperature and color; and

          WHEREAS, The oceanic measurements taken by the satellite are used in determining variations in ocean conditions that play key roles in causing fluctuations in stocks of fishes and in their vulnerability to harvesting; and

          WHEREAS, This information on the changing ocean, rather than on average ocean conditions, is necessary to understand and eventually predict the effects of the marine environment on fish populations; and

          WHEREAS, The use of satellite sensors combined with conventional data collection techniques provide a powerful tool toward ensuring the wise use of living marine resources; and

          WHEREAS, The Japan Radio Company, Limited has developed an oceanographic color display designed to receive signals from the satellite and to display in color an absolute surface temperature distribution for a large water area; and

          WHEREAS, In order to provide this information to fishermen, receiving stations need to be established to monitor the entire Pacific region;

          NOW, THEREFORE, Your Memorialists respectfully pray that:

          (1) The United States Congress establish a satellite remote sensing receiving station in Hawaii to assist the United States Pacific ocean fisheries industry in locating stocks of fish for harvesting; and

          (2) Funds are allocated for the purchase of an oceanographic color display for the receiving station and for the distribution of ocean temperature information to fishermen; and

          BE IT RESOLVED, That copies of this Memorial be immediately transmitted to the Honorable Ronald Reagan, President of the United States, the President of the United States Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, each member of Congress from the State of Washington, the National Conference of State Legislatures, the President of the Hawaii State Senate, the Speaker of the Hawaii House of Representatives, and each member of Congress from the State of Hawaii.