Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 98, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to help preserve marine resources by prohibiting net fishing in Kahului Harbor.

A concerned individual testified in support of this bill and submitted a petition signed by hundreds of concerned individuals supporting this measure. The Departments of Transportation and Land and Natural Resources offered comments.

Your Committee finds that restrictions on activities such as net fishing will help ensure the viability of marine resources in Kahului Harbor.

Your Committee has amended this bill by allowing persons to use throw net, opae net, crab net, or nehu net not longer than fifty feet to take nehu from Kahului Harbor for family consumption or bait.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 98, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 98, H.D. 2.