Hawaii Revised Statutes 187a. Aquatic Resources

PART I. GENERAL PROVISIONS

• 187a-1 Definitions.
  As used in this subtitle, unless the context indicates otherwise: "Aquaculture" means the propagation, cultivation, or farming of aquatic plants and animals in controlled...
• 187a-1.5 State Marine Waters.
  As used in this chapter, state marine waters shall be defined as extending from the upper reaches of the wash of the waves on...
• 187a-1.6 Applicability of Statutes and Rules.
  This subtitle and any rules under this subtitle relating to fishing which are applicable to state marine waters shall also apply to the following...
• 187a-2 Powers and Duties of Department.
  The department shall: (1) Manage and administer the aquatic life and aquatic resources of the State; (2) Establish and maintain aquatic life propagating station...
• 187a-3 Repealed.
  L 1998, c 176, §9.
• 187a-3.5 Aquaculturist License and License to Sell Prohibited Aquatic Life.
  (a) Notwithstanding the provisions in subtitle 5 of title 12, or administrative rules adopted thereunder, the department may issue to any qualified aquaculturist a...
• 187a-4 Administrator.
  The board shall appoint an administrator of aquatic resources who shall have charge, direction, and control of all matters relating to aquatic resources management,...
• 187a-5 Rules.
  Subject to chapter 91, the department shall adopt, amend, and repeal rules for and concerning the protection and propagation of introduced and transplanted aquatic...
• 187a-5.5 Consistency of State and Federal Fisheries Regulations.
  (a) The department shall adopt administrative rules pursuant to chapter 91 for fisheries located in both state and federal waters, that are equivalent to...
• 187a-6 Special Activity Permits.
  (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, the department may take aquatic life or possess or use any fishing gear for scientific, educational,...
• 187a-6.5 Release and Confiscation of Harmful Aquatic Life.
  (a) No person shall release any live non-native fish or other live non-native aquatic life being held in an aquarium or other confinement for...
• 187a-7 Expenditures.
  (a) The department may expend all appropriations made for the purpose of effectuating the objects of title 12. (b) To further the purposes of...
• 187a-8 Cooperation With Other Governmental Authorities.
  The department shall endeavor to secure the cooperation and assistance of and shall cooperate with the appropriate agency of the United States or other...
• 187a-9 Federal Aid in Sport Fish Restoration.
  The State hereby assents to the provisions of the Federal Aid in Sport Fish Restoration (Dingell-Johnson/Wallop-Breaux) Act (64 Stat. 430, 16 U.S.C. §777), as...
• 187a-9.5 Sport Fish Special Fund.
  (a) There is established in the department a sport fish special fund. (b) The following proceeds shall be retained by or transmitted to the...
• 187a-10 Agents to Sell Licenses.
  (a) The department may designate agents to sell fishing licenses in accordance with this section. Agents shall report all sales of licenses to the...
• 187a-11 Repealed.
  L 2002, c 86, §8.
• 187a-12 University of Hawaii May Use Land, Etc.
  The University of Hawaii shall have the privilege, free of charge, of using the land, buildings, apparatus, and appliances of the department for the...
• 187a-12.4 Misrepresentation or False Statement in Receipts and Reports.]
  Any person who knowingly misrepresents any material fact or makes a false statement in any document required by subtitle 5 of title 12, or...
• 187a-12.5 General Administrative Penalties.
  (a) Except as otherwise provided by law, the board is authorized to set, charge, and collect administrative fines and to recover administrative fees and...
• 187a-13 General Penalty.
  (a) Any person violating this chapter or any rule adopted thereunder for which a penalty is not otherwise provided, shall be guilty of a...
• 187a-14 Informer's Fee.
  One-half of the fine imposed and collected in all cases wherein the defendant has been convicted for a violation of subtitle 5 of title...
• 187a-15 Rights of Inspection of Catch.
  Any agent of the department upon whom the board has conferred powers of police officers or any other enforcement officer of the State shall...

PART II. FISHING RIGHTS

• 187a-21 Public Fishing Grounds.
  Except as otherwise provided by law, all fishing grounds appertaining to any government land or otherwise belonging to the government, except ponds, shall be...
• 187a-22 Use of Adjoining Lands.
  No person who has bought any government land, or obtains the land by lease or other title, has or shall have greater right than...
• 187a-23 Konohiki Rights.
  (a) The fishing grounds from the reefs, and where there happens to be no reefs, from the distance of one geographical mile seaward of...

PART III. ALIEN AQUATIC ORGANISMS

• 187a-31 Definitions.
  For the purposes of this part, "high risk vessel" includes fishing and recreational vessels and floating structures, such as barges, dry docks, drilling rigs,...
• 187a-32 Alien Aquatic Organisms; Lead Agency; Rules.
  (a) The department is designated as the lead state agency for preventing the introduction and carrying out the destruction of alien aquatic organisms through...

Last modified: October 27, 2016