STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2429

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 3137

       S.D. 1

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Water and Land, to which was referred S.B. No. 3137 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 measure is to make an appropriation to the Department of Land and Natural Resources for the purpose of monitoring akule fish from Pearl Harbor to Ka‘ena Point.

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by eight individuals.  The Department of Land and Natural Resources submitted testimony in support of this measure.

     At the request of your Committee, the Department of Land and Natural Resources, Division of Aquatic Resources submitted proposed language to clarify the purpose of the appropriation.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by including the language proposed by the Department of Land and Natural Resources, Division of Aquatic Resources, regarding the catch grids that will be monitored.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water and Land that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3137, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3137, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Water and Land,

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CLAYTON HEE, Chair