STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1721-08

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2008

RE:   S.B. No. 3137

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 3137, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES FOR AKULE FISH MONITORING,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to understand akule activity by appropriating funds for the Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) to tag and monitor akule and collect and interpret data about akule movements and habits of migration from Pearl Harbor to Ka‘ena Point, Oahu.  This bill also requires DLNR, Division of Aquatic Resources, to increase the number of commercial catch reporting grids by splitting each of the two catch grids along the coastline between Barber's Point and Ka‘ena Point.

     Several concerned individuals supported this bill.  DLNR opposed this measure. 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3137, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair