Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Water, Land, and Agriculture, to which was referred S.B. No. 2438 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the department of agriculture for the department's aquaculture development program to tag and monitor sharks along the Leeward coast from Kalaeloa to Kaena Point.

An individual presented testimony in support of the measure. The Chairperson of the Board of Agriculture submitted comments on the measure.

Your Committee heard concerns that the area covered by the existing language of the measure was not extensive enough to include the targeted area in Ewa Beach where a significant amount of aquaculture is being conducted.

Accordingly, your Committee amended this measure by expanding the area covered by the program to include Ewa Beach.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water, Land, and Agriculture that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2438, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2438, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.