| Commissioners William J. Sabatose and Frederick
P. Osifat were elected President and Vice President, respectively, of the Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission
(PFBC) at the board’s summer quarterly meeting today in Harrisburg.
Commission President Sabatose, of Brockport,
Jefferson County, comes from the Third Commissioner District, comprised of Cameron, Centre, Clearfield,
Clinton, Elk, Jefferson, McKean and Potter counties. He was first appointed to the Commission on December 9, 1987, and he
was reappointed in 1995 and in 2003.
Commissioner Sabatose has been a member of numerous conservation
and sportsmen's organizations. He served as President of the Toby Creek Watershed Association, Inc., where he led
an effort to plant almost two million trees. He has done numerous studies of acid mine drainage in the Clarion River
Basin and has worked with government agencies such as the Department of Environmental Protection to reduce acid mine drainage
on both the Toby Creek and Clarion River watersheds. His efforts to work with state legislators and state agencies
has resulted in major revisions of both state and federal surface mine laws, especially those with respect to siltation
and acid pollution of streams. Commissioner Sabatose has received numerous awards for these projects.
This is his third stint as president, having served in
that capacity from July 1990 to July 1992 and from July 2002 to July 2003.
Commission Vice President Osifat is an ardent fly fisherman
and has been active in several fishing and sportsmen’s organizations over the years. He is currently 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 has him serving on the Kline-Banks-McAdoo
Regional Authority, Banks Township Municipal Authority, Tri-County (Carbon-Schuylkill-Luzerne) Airport
Study Advisory Board, and the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation Citizen Advisory Board. Commissioner
Osifat presently is Director of the Office of Planning and Development for Carbon County and has been employed with
the County since 1993.
Commissioner Osifat, of Tresckow, resides in Commission
District 7 comprised of Carbon, Lackawanna, Luzerne, Monroe, Pike, Susquehanna, Wayne and Wyoming counties.
The newly-elected
officers will serve a one-year term.
For more information about current Commissioners,
visit the PFBC web site at www.fishandboat.com, select "About
the PFBC,” then "Commissioners." There
you will find a link to a map showing Commissioner districts and a brief biography for each Commissioner.
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