HAR §13-60.11-2
HAR §13-60.11-2. 60
Cite as Haw. Code R. § 13-60.11-2
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"State" means the state of Hawai‘i.
"Subsistence" means the customary and traditional
native Hawaiian uses of renewable ocean resources for
direct personal or family consumption or sharing.
"Surround net fishing" means a technique of
fishing where a person or persons engage in the act of
or attempt to engage in the act of deploying a gill
net in the water in such a manner as to completely
encircle the aquatic life. The gill net primarily
entangles aquatic life within the mesh of the net as
the aquatic life swim or move into the gill net. The
main characteristics of surround net fishing are the
closed net configuration, the moving net, person or
persons chase the aquatic life into the net, and only
the aquatic life that entangles in the net mesh are
captured.
"Stretched mesh" means the straight line distance
between two opposite inner edges of each eye of the
net mesh as measured when the eye is stretched to its
maximum size.
"Ta‘ape" means any fish known as Lutjanus kasmira
or any recognized synonym. Ta‘ape are also known as
bluestripe snapper.
"Take" means to fish for, catch, injure, kill,
remove, capture, confine, or harvest, or to attempt to
fish for, catch, injure, kill, remove, capture,
confine, or harvest.
"Throw net" means a circular net with a weighted
outer perimeter designed to be deployed by manually
casting or throwing the net over fish or other aquatic
life. This gear is also known as a cast net.
"Treble hook" means a hook having three points on a
common shank.
"Ula" means any spiny lobster of the genus
Panulirus. Ula are also known as lobster, Hawaiian
spiny lobster, spiny lobster, red lobster, or green
lobster.
"Ula pāpapa" means any crustacean of the species
Scyllarides squammosus or Scyllarides haanii, or any
recognized synonym. Ula pāpapa are also known as ula
‘āpapapa, slipper lobster, ridgeback slipper lobster,
or shovel-nosed lobster. [Eff 3/25/24] (Auth: HRS