Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources, to which was referred S.B. No. 1883, S.D. 2, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to ensure sustainable stocks of fish by designating the Miloli'i Fisheries Management Area a community based subsistence fishing area.

The Office of Hawaiian Affairs and The Nature Conservancy of Hawaii testified in support of this bill. The Department of Land and Natural Resources does not support this measure.

Once an area is statutorily designated a community based subsistence area, your Committee is concerned with its territorial implications, including questions as to the exclusivity of the affected community's uses of subsistence resources that may promote user conflicts.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1883, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1883, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.