ORG 0095 ANNOTATIONS

Fishing rights covered by land commission awards or held under the early laws of Hawaii, are vested rights under this §: 194 U.S. 154, 31 L.R.A. (N.S.) 397 (reversing 14 H. 465); 200 U.S. 255; 16 H. 308. Requirement that fishing right be established as provided in §96 in order to be valid, is constitutional. 35 H. 608. Fisheries in streams are not covered by this § though the fish come from the sea: 18 H. 462. Fisheries free to citizens and alien residents alike before this Act continued so afterwards: 3 U.S.D.C. Haw. 227. This § repealed the penal remedy provided for in §482, R.L. 1905: 16 H. 307. This § does not prevent the requirement of a license fee for fishing for profit with a boat of more than a certain width: 19 H. 643. Congress did not reserve exclusive control over the sea fisheries of the Territory: 21 H. 39 (Ann. Cas. 1915A 1155); 21 H. 631; 31 H. 678.

Referred to in 39 H. 129.

Loko i`a: A Legal Guide to the Restoration of Native Hawaiian Fishponds Within the Western Paradigm. 24 UH L. Rev. 657.