HomeMy WebLinkAbout2009-72 - Upper Newport Bay and Rocky IntertidalRESOLUTION NO. 2009-72
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL
OF THE CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH
STATING THE CITY'S SUPPORT OF DESIGNATING
UPPER NEWPORT BAY AND THE ROCKY
INTERTIDAL HABITAT OFF OF THE CITY'S LIMITS
AS STATE MARINE CONSERVATION AREAS
WHEREAS, the City of Newport Beach supports the principles of the Marine Life Protection
Act (MLPA) and those principles' emphasis of thorough, science -based analysis the buttresses
adaptive management of California's Marine Protected Areas (MPAs); and
WHEREAS, the City recognizes that California's MPAs, including the Upper Newport Bay
State Marine Park, the Robert E Badham Marine Reserve (also known as the Robert E.
Badham State Marine Conservation Area) and the Crystal Cove -Irvine Coast marine protected
areas are special, distinct, and valuable ecosystems along California's coast, and have served a
vital purposed to protect and conserve valuable natural marine resources; and
WHEREAS, the City has supported the protection of MPAs via various actions, including the
dedication of scarce resources via our Marine Life Refuge Protection Program (including its
educational and enforcement approaches), the Back Bay Science Center, and our participation
in regional efforts to educate the region's visitors about MPAs and to protect MPAs from
predation; now, therefore be it
RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Newport Beach that:
I. Given the City's long -time and strong support for our coast's MPAs, the City desires to
maintain at minimum, these MPAs' current levels of resource protection pertaining to
these MPAs' extraordinarily rare and valuable habitat known as "Rocky Intertidal"
habitat; and
2. Given the City's support of the MLPA's principles of science -based analysis and
adaptive management, the City also supports revisiting the relevance of MPAs every five
years in order to asses and evaluate natural resource management in an adaptive
manner; and
3. It hereby expresses the City's support for the designation of a State Marine
Conservation Area (SMCA) in Upper Newport Bay inland of the Coast Highway Bridge
and a continuous and consistent SMCA in the ocean from the east jetty of Newport
Harbor to the southernmost boundary of the city's incorporated limits and extending up
to a minimum of 0.5 miles offshore with the following regulations, which shall include but
not be limited to:
The commercial or recreational take of sheephead, rockfish, rays, sharks, marine
plants and invertebrates is prohibited except for the recreational take of lobster
and urchin, which is allowed.
The commercial take of lobster including incidental catch taken under the
authority of a lobster permit and urchin is allowed.
The take of species not mentioned above and allowed under General Take
Regulations is allowed.
When fishing from the east jetty of Newport Harbor, the take of all species is
allowed under General Take Regulations.
ADOPTED this 13`h day of October, 20
ATTEST:
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA }
COUNTY OF ORANGE } SS.
CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH }
I, Leilani I. Brown, City Clerk of the City of Newport Beach, California, do hereby
certify that the whole number of members of the City Council is seven; that the foregoing resolution,
being Resolution No. 2009 -72 was duly and regularly introduced before and adopted by the City
Council of said City at a regular meeting of said Council, duly and regularly held on the 13th day of
October, 2009, and that the same was so passed and adopted by the following vote, to wit:
Ayes: Henn, Rosansky, Curry, Webb, Gardner, Mayor Selich
Noes: None
Absent: Daigle
Abstain: None
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the
official seal of said City this 14th day of October, 2009.
City Clerk
Newport Beach, California
(Seal)