The West Hawai'I Fisheries Council Case Study Report

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• Personal Author:
  Maurin, Paulo ; Peck, Sara
• Corporate Authors:
  University of Hawaii at Manoa. Sea Grant College Program
• NOAA Program & Office:
  Sea Grant ; OAR (Oceanic and Atmospheric Research)
• Sea Grant Program:
  HAWAU (Hawaii Sea Grant)
• Description:
  The West Hawai‘i Fisheries Council (WHFC) is a
  
  community group on the island of Hawai‘i that
  
  involves citizens in the management of local
  
  marine resources. The WHFC was formed in
  
  1998 partly due to community concerns over the
  
  collecting of tropical reef fish for aquarium use.
  
  In tandem with the formation of the group was
  
  the passing of Act 306. The Act was an important
  
  piece of legislation that required substantive
  
  community involvement to achieve four main
  
  tasks: setting aside a minimum of 30 percent of
  
  the West Hawai‘i coastal area where no aquarium
  
  fish collecting could take place, creating a dayuse mooring system, establishing portions of
  
  existing Fisheries Replenishment Areas (FRAs) as
  
  no-take FRAs, and setting portions of FRAs where
  
  use of lay gill nets would be prohibited. The Act
  
  also gave the Department of Land and Natural
  
  Resources “expanded rule-making authority to
  
  separate incompatible uses,” empowering the
  
  agency to address and solve conflicts relating to
  
  use of marine resources.
  
  
• Sea Grant Document Number:
  HAWAU-T-08-001
• Document Type:
  Non-Series Report
• Funding:
  Grant/cooperative agreement nos. Project no. A/AS-1 ; NA05OAR4171048
• Rights Information:
  Public Domain
• Compliance:
  Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:3bd1b703bbd726ef100a26334d15a31041e3a65ba4af6d09290d5aa3d6275ae8
• Download URL:
  https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/39944/noaa_39944_DS1.pdf
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