HRS §188F-4
Plan for managing West Hawaii fishing areas
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗The department must create a plan for the West Hawaii fishing area. The plan will set aside some coastal waters where collecting aquarium fish is not allowed, add mooring buoys, create fish reserves, and ban certain nets in some places.
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The statute, as written — West Hawaii regional fishery management area plan
A copy, taken August 20, 2026. The version published by the Legislature is the one that governs, and it may have changed since. Check it before relying on anything here.
The department shall develop a West Hawaii regional fishery management area plan that identifies and designates appropriate areas of the management area as follows: (1) Designates a minimum of thirty per cent of coastal waters in the West Hawaii regional fishery management area as fish replenishment areas in which aquarium fish collection is prohibited; (2) Establishes a day-use mooring buoy system along the coastline of the West Hawaii regional fishery management area and designates some high-use areas where no anchoring is allowed; (3) Establishes a portion of the fish replenishment areas as fish reserves where no fishing of reef-dwelling fish is allowed; and (4) Designates areas where the use of gill nets as set nets shall be prohibited.
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