HAR §13-47-2. Prohibited activities

(a) No person shall engage in the following activities within Hilo harbor, Wailoa river, and Wailuku river: (1) Take or possess any aquatic life that is in violation of a season, minimum size, or other law; (2) Take or possess more than an aggregate total of twenty fishes of mullet, moi and ulua including papio; provided that this bag limit shall not include either more than fifteen moi per day or more than ten mullet per day; (3) Take or possess more than three Samoan crabs per day; (4) Take or possess any crab with external eggs, or with a missing or mutilated abdomen or tail; (5) Take any crab with spears or any other implement capable of inflicting a puncture wound, or to possess any crab with a puncture wound; (6) Take aquatic life with more than two poles with one line each, or two hand lines, or with more than two hooks or two lures per line; (7) Take crabs except by the use of: (A) Baited lines, provided that dip nets may be used to land crabs lured by the bait attached to the line; and (B) Crab nets not exceeding two feet (0.61 meter) in the longest straight line dimension and stretched mesh of not less than two inches (5.08 centimeters); provided that any fisherman shall not 47-3 §13-47-2 fish with more than five crab nets at any time and those nets shall be attended at all times; (8) Use traps; (9) Use netting except: (A) Opae nets not exceeding three feet (0.91 meter) in any dimension; and (B) Nehu nets not longer than fifty feet to take nehu for family consumption or bait purposes; and (10) Snag any fish. (b) Unless otherwise allowed by law, it is unlawful for any person to possess a throw net or to engage in throw netting in the Wailoa River. (c) Unless otherwise allowed by law, it is unlawful for any person to possess a spear or to engage in spearing in the Wailoa River. [Eff: 5/26/81; am and comp 3/20/87; am and com 3/7/88; am and comp 1/15/99; am and comp DEC 19 2002 ] (Auth: HRS §188-53) (Imp: HRS §§188-34, 188-44, 188-45, 188-58)