REPORT Title:

Shark Monitoring

Description:

Appropriates funds for the Department of Land and Natural Resources, in conjunction with the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, to hire a contractor to tag and monitor sharks along the Leeward Coast of Oahu from Pearl Harbor to Kaena Point. (SB1267 HD1)

 

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

1267

TWENTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2005

S.D. 2

STATE OF HAWAII

H.D. 1


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

RELATING TO SHARK MONITORING.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. The legislature finds that there are growing incidents of shark attacks in this State. To understand shark activity, there is a need to collect and interpret data about shark movements and habits of migration.

SECTION 2. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $25,000 or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2005-2006 for the department of land and natural resources, in conjunction with the Hawaii institute of marine biology, to hire a contractor to tag and monitor sharks along the leeward coast of Oahu from Pearl Harbor to Kaena Point.

The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of land and natural resources, in conjunction with the Hawaii institute of marine biology, for the purposes of this Act.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2005.