HAR §13-48.5-1. Purpose

The purpose of this chapter regarding the Maunalua Bay Fisheries Management Area is to: (1) Create long-term sustainable fishing within Maunalua Bay; (2) Implement fisheries management actions that protect ecologically critical and socially important marine life while minimizing impacts to sustainable fishing practices; (3) Develop and implement monitoring and data collection processes that integrate western, indigenous, and citizen science (including empirical knowledge from Maunalua Bay users) to provide decision-makers with a diversity of accurate, abundant, and timely information that contributes to fisheries management decision-making; and (4) Develop and implement an inclusive, transparent, adaptive stakeholder-endorsed and science-based decision-making process that lends to long-term sustainable fishing within Maunalua Bay. [Eff 05/23/25] (Auth: HRS §188-53) (Imp: HRS §188-53)