STAND. COM. REP. NO. 275

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1220

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Water, Land, and Housing, to which was referred S.B. No. 1220 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FISHING,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to:

 

     (1)  Designate the Lanai Community-Based Fishery Resource Management Area; and

 

     (2)  Establish the Lanai Community-Based Fishery Resource Management Area Advisory Committee.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc. and the Ocean Tourism Coalition.  Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources.

 

     Your Committee finds that implementing a Community-Based Fishery Resource Management Area Program fully concords with the purpose and intent of Act 212, Session Laws of Hawaii 2007, which established the Aha Kiole Advisory Committee and found that traditional natural resources management practices can be compatible with western concepts of resource management.  Your Committee further finds that the Lanai community has expressed concerns relating to overfishing and the impact that overfishing has on the subsistence lifestyle on the Island of Lanai.  Your Committee also finds that the residents of Lanai have knowledge of the fishery resources that exist in their island environment and how best to sustain them.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Providing that private funding sources, rather than general revenues of the State, shall provide the monies to establish and maintain the Lanai Community-Based Fishery Resource Management Area Program; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water, Land, and Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1220, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1220, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Water, Land, and Housing,

 

 

 

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair