STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1183

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 850

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 850, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FISHING,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to implement a community-based fishery resource management area program for the island of Lanai that includes the establishment of an advisory committee within the Department of Land and Natural Resources to develop traditional fishery management practices and to advise the department on proposed rules for the take of fishery resources.

 

     Your Committee received comments in support of this measure from Robbie Alm, Executive Vice-President, Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc.; and two individuals.

 

     Your Committee received comments on this measure from William J. Aila, Jr., Chairperson, Department of Land and Natural Resources.

 

     Your Committee finds that this measure will be beneficial to the management of natural resources on the island of Lanai by encouraging the development of traditional fishery management practices and sustainable use of marine resources.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2117, to facilitate further discussion on the measure.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 850, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 850, H.D. 1, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

 

 

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair