STAND. COM. REP. NO. 349
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2015
RE: H.B. No. 483
Honorable Joseph M. Souki
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Eighth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2015
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 483 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO OCEAN RESOURCES,"
begs leave to report as follows:
Your Committee finds that monitoring extraction activities and enforcing compliance with management regulations in the West Hawaii Regional Fishery Management Area have proven difficult. Despite the Department's current enforcement and monitoring activities, reliable data on the Management Area is still lacking and illegal activities continue. Your Committee finds that an administrative inspection program will increase the Department's ability to enforce existing requirements for the Management Area and to collect data on activities and resources within the Management Area.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 483 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs,
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____________________________ KANIELA ING, Chair |
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