| The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission
is saddened to note the passing of Commissioner Frederick P. Osifat.
Appointed as a
member of the Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission on February 13, 2006, Osifat represented Commission District
Seven, comprised of Carbon, Lackawanna, Luzerne, Monroe, Pike, Susquehanna, Wayne and Wyoming counties.
Commissioner Osifat had recently been elected Vice President of the Commission.
A
resident of Carbon County, Osifat, 64, was an ardent fly fisherman active in several fishing and sportsmen’s
organizations over the years. He was a member of the Paradise Hunting and Fishing Club, Lehigh River
Stocking Association, Northampton-Lehigh-Carbon Outdoor Sportsmen Association, and the Western Pocono Chapter of
Trout Unlimited serving as Director.
Community interest had him serving on the Kline-Banks-McAdoo (KBM)
Regional Authority, Banks Township Municipal Authority (BTMA), Tri-County (Carbon-Schuylkill-Luzerne)
Airport Study Advisory Board, and the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation Citizen Advisory Board.
Commissioner Osifat obtained an Associate Degree
in engineering from the Pennsylvania State University. At the time of his death he was Director of the
Office of Planning and Development for Carbon County and had been employed with the County since 1993.
Previously, he served as Executive Vice-President and partner in the former PennEast Corporation, a multi-disciplined
engineering firm based in Pottsville.
He
is survived by his wife, Carmella, and two children, Fred, Jr. and Sharon.
In the biography he provided at the time of his appointment
to the Commission, he noted the sentiments of Henry David Thoreau who observed…“Many
men go fishing all of their lives, without knowing it is not fish they are after.” |
