{"id":10516,"date":"2018-08-01T02:19:06","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T02:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.environment-hawaii.org\/?p=10516"},"modified":"2019-03-13T21:06:57","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T21:06:57","slug":"board-talk-molokaii-fishing-rules-coral-take-kaena-nar-addition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=10516","title":{"rendered":"Board Talk: Moloka`i Fishing Rules, Coral Take, Ka`ena NAR addition"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Discord Stalls Hearings on Rules For Moloka\u2018i Subsistence Fishing Area<\/h3>\n
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The volunteer group Hui Malama O Mo\u2018omomi has led efforts to protect and educate people about the marine resources on Moloka\u2018i\u2019s North Shore since the mid-1990s, teaching hundreds of children from throughout the state about conservation and traditional Hawaiian fishing practices. But even though the state Board of Land and Natural Resources voted on April 13 to send to public hearings rules that would give teeth to the group\u2019s practices, sentiment \u2014 held by state Rep. Lynn DeCoite and others \u2014 that the proposal did not come from the community and that some of its provisions were unreasonably strict seems to have stalled the rule-making process for now.<\/p>\n

At the board\u2019s meeting, the Department of Land and Natural Resources\u2019 (DLNR) Division of Aquatic Resources (DAR) described the collaborative process that led to the creation of the proposed rules to establish a Community-Based Subsistence Fishing Area (CBSFA) at Mo\u2018omomi. The Hui had submitted an initial proposal to the department last year, and DAR later held a number of scoping meetings on the island before bringing a final draft of the rules to the board for permission to take them to public hearings. The proposed CBSFA would span an 18-mile stretch of ocean from the northwestern tip of the island at \u2018Ilio Point, past Mo\u2018omomi, to Nihoa Flats, just before Kalaupapa National Park, and extend a mile out to sea.<\/p>\n

With a few tweaks, the Land Board unanimously approved DAR\u2019s recommendation. But that was only after the board considered written and oral testimony from dozens of people in support, including the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, as well as those who were strongly opposed. Among the latter were ten fishermen who were flown in to Honolulu by chartered helicopters. They described their experiences with the Hui\u2019s leader, Kelson \u201cMac\u201d Poepoe, and some of his cohorts, as being downright foul.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe\u2019ve been pushed around and harassed from the Hui Mo\u2018omomi. … By passing this, you\u2019re pretty much putting this into their hands. … I think it\u2019s gonna get ugly. It\u2019s been that way for the past 25 years,\u201d Lolly Agliam told the board.<\/p>\n

University of Hawai\u2018i ethnic studies professor Davianna McGregor, who helped develop the Moloka\u2018i subsistence study in the early 1990s that laid the groundwork for the statewide CBSFA program, countered that Poepoe has long been vilified by \u201cthose who feel they can do whatever they want.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve never seen Mac behave like that to anyone. … He has become the center and target of attack, unjustly, I feel,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Before approving the request to take rules out to hearings, board members made it clear that they were not about to referee the disputes that had obviously been festering for years.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no way to deal with a blow-by-blow incident, who\u2019s right and who\u2019s wrong,\u201d board member Chris Yuen said.<\/p>\n

Board member Stanley Roehrig later added, \u201cWe\u2019re not into the power trip. That\u2019s not our kuleana. We\u2019re not going to pick sides. This is not a boxing match.\u201d He continued that if the rules are adopted, \u201cpeople like Mac, the other strong personalities, you all gonna lose power. It\u2019s going to be the kuleana of the state government. The DLNR is going to have to come in and make sure all of our DOCARE [Division of Conservation and Resources Enforcement] officers are not bullies, they\u2019re well trained, and when they go down the beach, they enforce the laws fairly [and] no back their friends.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Whether or not Roehrig\u2019s clarification allayed all of the fishermen\u2019s concerns remains to be seen. Retired commercial diver Walter Rawlins, for one, seemed fine with the idea of state management. \u201cLet DLNR handle it. I got not problem,\u201d he said. (He did, however, question one of the proposed restrictions: \u201cOnly two uhu? … That\u2019s not gonna work,\u201d he said.)<\/p>\n

As of late July, no hearings had been scheduled and DeCoite\u2019s concerns apparently led Gov. David Ige to fly to Moloka\u2018i to discuss the issue with some of the rules\u2019 opponents. At the Hawai\u2018i Conservation Conference held last month, Ige hinted that the rules may not be going anywhere anytime soon. \u201cI wanted to ensure we could have a better start of that process,\u201d he said, adding that he looked forward to ensuring that any rules going forward came from the community and that \u201call voices are heard.\u201d<\/p>\n

Should the rules go out as approved by the Land Board, it did require that hearings be held on all of the main Hawaiian islands, not just those in Maui County. And once they\u2019ve been held, the board committed to making sure that its final vote on the rules is held on Moloka\u2018i.<\/p>\n

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New Limits<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The 1994 Governor\u2019s Moloka\u2018i Subsistence Task Force report that McGregor helped author found that the populations of whitesaddle goatfish (kumu) and spiny lobster (ula) in the proposed CBSFA area had nearly collapsed, and according to the Hui\u2019s 2017 proposal, more recent monitoring suggested that the lobster population had still not recovered.<\/p>\n

But at the Land Board\u2019s meeting, DAR staff presented data highlighting the fact that surveys done in 2017 found that the reef fish biomass of North Moloka\u2018i was higher than anywhere else in the state, barring the uninhabited Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.<\/p>\n

\u201cMean total biomass on North Moloka\u2018i is nearly 3.5 times higher than the statewide average … and over 15 times higher than the north shore of heavily fished O\u2018ahu,\u201d a DAR report by scientists Whitney Goodell and Alan Friedlander stated. The report also noted that for three of the species to be covered under the CBSFA regulations \u2014 kole, kumu, and uhu \u2014 their mean biomass in North Moloka\u2018i was 1.5 to 2 times higher than other north shores in the Main Hawaiian Islands, particularly O\u2018ahu.<\/p>\n

Fisherman Aaron Boswell and others seized upon this new data as proof that no new fishing regulations were needed.<\/p>\n

In a scoping recent meeting with a DLNR representative, Boswell said attendees were informed that the fish at Mo\u2018omomi was plentiful, almost double other areas, he said. \u201cMy question for him was, \u2018Why do we need you?\u2019 Boswell asked.<\/p>\n

McGregor argued that despite the overall bounty of the area, the handful of species covered under the rules are still at risk of overfishing. Indeed, Goodell and Friedlander wrote in their report, \u201c[L]ong-term community fishers have expressed concerns with what they observe as recent declines in overall catches, as well as declining fish size.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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As resources throughout the state decrease, it is likely additional pressure will be placed on the resources of this area. As a result, it is increasingly important to consider future management plans that will help maintain the quality of this ecosystem in the face of increasing effort.\u201d<\/p>\n

Testifiers who helped create the state\u2019s first and only CBSFA a couple of years ago at Ha\u2018ena on Kaua\u2018i\u2019s North Shore expressed their support for the Mo\u2018omomi proposal, noting that there is already evidence that the restrictions at Ha\u2018ena have increased the number and size of fish there.<\/p>\n

The Mo\u2018omomi CBSFA rules would establish the following:<\/p>\n

Parrotfish, or uhu:<\/strong> A prohibition on the take of uhu \u2018ele\u2018ele and uhu uliuli, a closed season of April 1 through June 30 for uhu palukaluka and uhu ahu\u2018ula, and a total daily bag limit of two for those species. The board approved similar rules for the island of Maui years ago.<\/p>\n

Whitesaddle goatfish, or kumu:<\/strong> A daily bag limit of two, a maximum size limit of 16 inches, and a closed season of January 1 through March 31.<\/p>\n

Goldring surgeonfish, or kole:<\/strong> A daily bag limit of 20, a minimum fork length of 5 inches, and a closed season of April 1 through June 30.<\/p>\n

Pacific threadfin, or moi:<\/strong> A maximum size limit of 18 inches in fork length, and a gear restriction allowing take only by hook and line, spear, or throw net. (The existing daily bag limit is 15.)<\/p>\n

Spiny lobster, or ula:<\/strong> A daily bag limit of two, and harvest allowed only by hand or hook.<\/p>\n

Limpet, or opihi:<\/strong> A prohibition on take or possession while diving.<\/p>\n

Seaweed, or limu:<\/strong> A prohibition on taking with holdfast or roots attached.<\/p>\n

General regulations:<\/strong> Except for torching, no take or possession of marine life would be allowed while night diving from 6p.m. to 6a.m. No SCUBA spearfishing or commercial fishing would be allowed, except trolling and bottomfish fishing in waters deeper than 40 fathoms.<\/p>\n

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Kawa\u2018aloa Bay Protected Area Regulations:<\/strong> No fishing or gathering would be allowed, except for hand-harvest of a\u2018ama crab, shoreline limu gathering during the day, throw netting during the day, and hook and line fishing from shore during the day, using only artificial lures.<\/p>\n

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Restricting Access<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

O\u2018ahu\u2019s Randy Cates said he first visited Mo\u2018omomi some 40 years ago and has been diving there nearly every year since. And when the Legislature approved a small-scale, two- year pilot subsistence fishing project there in 1995, Cates said, he testified in support of it. The implementation of that project, however, backfired, at least for him, personally.<\/p>\n

\u201cI saw acts of violence increase, especially on me,\u201d he said. While the proposed rules had been touted by then-DAR administrator Bruce Anderson and others as merely a means to control excessive fishing \u2014 and not to control access to the fishing grounds \u2014 Cates argued that was not the case.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re going to ban spearfishing with SCUBA and have a bag limit, but allow gillnets. But with a gillnet, you can\u2019t tell two kumu to go into the net. It\u2019s not based on science,\u201d he said, asserting that the SCUBA fishing ban was really just a way to restrict access.<\/p>\n

A SCUBA spearfishing ban would force him to free dive or snorkel, which would, in turn, force him to fish right next to the shoreline, which he said is disrespectful to the fishers onshore. What\u2019s more, it puts him at risk of violence, he said, noting that he had an altercation with someone there as recently as late last year.<\/p>\n

Cates added that free diving, especially for older people, is not the safest or smartest thing to do, suggesting that by banning SCUBA- aided fishing, the DLNR would effectively be barring him from the area.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf SCUBA is somehow giving you an advantage [to catch more fish], then why allow gillnets? … If truly the gear type is the concern, why would you allow a gear type that\u2019s indiscriminate?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n

In 2007, the Land Board banned the use of gillnets statewide, except in waters around Moloka\u2018i, where residents vehemently opposed such regulation. (More than 1,700 Moloka\u2018i residents had signed a petition opposing any rule changes to gillnets.)<\/p>\n

Land Board member Roehrig, at least, was swayed by Cates\u2019 argument. In making a motion to approve DAR\u2019s recommendation, Roehrig noted that he wanted the proposed rules to be amended to ban the use of gillnets, or cross nets, as he called them.<\/p>\n

DAR\u2019s Anderson reminded the board that \u201cthe entire island of Moloka\u2018i rejected the lay gillnet rules\u201d and under the proposed rules they would continue to be allowed, except in the Kawa\u2018aloa Bay nursery area. \u201cThe community chose not to recommend any rule on limits on lay gill nets,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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Land Board member Yuen agreed with Roehrig that gillnets do take a huge amount of fish compared to other methods, but discouraged the board from touching \u201ca hot button that the group that\u2019s promoting this decided not to include.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s reasons from a community level for not pushing things that sound good to us. I think we should probably leave that one alone,\u201d Yuen said.<\/p>\n

Roehrig recounted that when he used gillnets when he was younger, \u201cwe would have to carry a hammer in our shorts because nets would get stuck on the coral. … That\u2019s not a good thing either. If it\u2019s an area that doesn\u2019t have a smooth bottom, cross netting is problematic.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shae Kamaka\u2018ala, CBSFA coordinator for DAR, noted that the ocean floor in the area is mostly sandstone.<\/p>\n

With regard to access, she noted earlier in the meeting that it was one of the main issues raised during DAR\u2019s scoping meetings on the rules, particularly vehicular access to Kawa\u2018aloa Bay. While much of the coastline along the CBSFA is owned by the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, which does not restrict access, significant portions are controlled by the Moloka\u2018i Land Trust, The Nature Conservancy of Hawai\u2018i, and Moloka\u2018i Ranch, which do.<\/p>\n

\u201cAccess has always been an issue in our community,\u201d McGregor testified. \u201cThe reason TNC closed off weekend access is because fences were cut, huge amounts of oipihi taken for commercial use, and a turtle was killed. … Ka\u2018awaloa Bay was a nesting beach for turtles. That was the last straw,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Board Discussion<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Early in the meeting, Kaua\u2018i board member Tommy Oi questioned DAR staff about how they planned to enforce rules for 18 miles of coastline. He noted that at the Ha\u2018ena CBSFA, \u201cthey live in the area. They\u2019re the eyes of the area. This area [on Moloka\u2018i] is so big. There\u2019s no residents along the shore.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kamaka\u2018ala replied that DAR partners with the non-profit Makai Watch, which is a program that trains members of the public how to spot, document, and report violations. \u201cWe did it for Ha\u2018ena twice with the community there,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

DAR\u2019s Anderson admitted that the two DOCARE officers on Moloka\u2018i were certainly taxed as it is, but said that with educational outreach to the community, \u201ccompliance should be as good as anywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n

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State Rep. DeCoite, who represents the area most affected by the rules, stressed the need for the DLNR to beef up its enforcement on the island. \u201cIt should never be one family telling another you cannot catch this. … It needs to be the department,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

To Roehrig, the concerns raised by DeCoite and others highlighted the need to give people a chance to voice their concerns \u201cout in the open\u201d and smooth out the rules \u201cso it\u2019s more pono,\u201d he said before making his motion to approve DAR\u2019s request.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs far as access is concerned, it\u2019s a two- edged sword. It\u2019s a blessing and a curse,\u201d he added. He relayed that at his nearshore home on Hawai\u2018i island, raiders come in the middle of the night and take turtles, sea slugs, \u201ceverything. They just loot. They\u2019re not from our neighborhood and they take everything.\u201d<\/p>\n

Board member Keone Downing chose not to offer any amendments, but expressed some concerns about the rules as proposed. For example, with regard to the ban on SCUBA spearfishing, he echoed a complaint similar to one raised earlier by Cates.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m 64. Diving 25 feet three to four times a day is a lot easier with a tank. … We\u2019re eliminating a whole group of people who grew up diving. [SCUBA fishing] allows us to feel important to go and dive and not have someone else go and dive for you,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Taking care not to name names, Downing seemed to also suggest that Poepoe should step away from his lead role in stewarding the area. \u201cEverybody has been talking about personality and the personality they talking about believes from listening from their side, this person put a lot of time in. If you really care about Mo\u2018omomi, they should start thinking about an exit strategy for that person so the island can heal and move forward,\u201d Downing said.<\/p>\n

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To the general complaints made about the Hui, Yuen noted that the proposal before the board was \u201ca set of rules of how much fish people can take, not who gets power.\u201d He acknowledged that there were things that needed to be worked out in the community, but if the rules are enacted, \u201cthey will be the DLNR\u2019s rules and enforced by the DLNR\u2019s people.\u201d<\/p>\n

(For more background, read, \u201cMoloka\u2018i Group Awaits Decision From BLNR on Subsistence Fishing Zone<\/a>,\u201d from our February 1999 issue.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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(This story has been corrected to fix an editing error.)<\/p>\n

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Ban on Rock, Coral Take<\/h4>\n

Stalls Seawater Air Conditioning Project<\/h4>\n

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At the same April 13 meeting, the Land Board granted another, far less controversial request from DAR to send rules out to public hearings. The division sought to amend rules that prohibit the take of coral or live rock in order to exempt renewable energy projects, which would include those that reduce the consumption of non-renewable energy. The proposed rule changes would also allow the division to require mitigation for any coral or live rock removed or damaged by a renewable energy project.<\/p>\n

In its report to the board, DAR explained that it has received proposals in the past decade for offshore wind turbines, wave generation buoys, and deep-seawater air conditioning systems, all of which might require infrastructure to be placed in areas covered with stony coral or live rock.<\/p>\n

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The Land Board has already issued a Conservation District Use Permit for a seawater air conditioning project in Honolulu, but according to then-DAR administrator Bruce Anderson, it can\u2019t proceed without the proposed rule changes.<\/p>\n

The project has been planned for a decade, but 30 pieces of coral the size of a microphone stand in the way, he continued.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we want to support these projects, there\u2019s often no alternative to disturbing coral,\u201d he said. He added that if the rules are adopted, the state will be able to require greater mitigation than is called for under permits issued by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for these same projects.<\/p>\n

Board member Keone Downing seemed skeptical of the need for the air conditioning project\u2019s take of coral. \u201cWhy haven\u2019t they looked at going into deeper water? … Why aren\u2019t they going under the surface?\u201d he asked. He added that when telecommunications cables were installed in Makaha on O\u2018ahu\u2019s west shore, installers made sure they exited in the sand, not in coral.<\/p>\n

Anderson tried to assure Downing that his division was very diligent in seeing to it that any damage to coral is properly mitigated. \u201cWe charge a lot of money for any coral damage, $250 for half a meter of coral is charged.\u201d In this case of the seawater air conditioning project, mitigation will include the transplanting of impacted corals.<\/p>\n

\u201cBelieve me, the state\u2019s taking some leadership, nationally. … I assure you, we\u2019re not allowing people to indiscriminately come in and take corals,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Board member Chris Yuen made a motion to approve DAR\u2019s request. \u201cIt seems like a very reasonable approach to take. There is a difference between telecommunications cables and pipes. … If this project goes through, it prevents a lot of greenhouse gas from going into the atmosphere. If we can\u2019t do something about that, there aren\u2019t going to be corals anyway from coral bleaching,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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To this, Anderson noted that 60 percent of building energy costs come from controlling temperature, so by cooling them with seawater, \u201cwe\u2019re saving a lot of fuel when we look at that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before the vote, board member Stanley Roehrig informed Anderson that the next time he comes to the board to seek permission for such a project, \u201ccome with some proof that it\u2019s de minimus or a small matter if you\u2019re going to break up coral.\u201d (The rules, if approved, would allow the department to permit the taking of coral for a renewable energy project without coming to the Land Board. Also, Anderson is no longer DAR administrator; he\u2019s head of the state Department of Health.)<\/p>\n

The board ultimately approved the motion, with Downing dissenting.<\/p>\n

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Title Cloud Results In<\/h4>\n

Gratis Addition to Ka\u2018ena NAR<\/h4>\n

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More than six years ago, the Land Board approved a Division of Forestry and Wildlife request to spend $86,450 from the state Land Conservation Fund toward the purchase of three-fourths of an acre of sand dunes on the Mokuleia side of the Ka\u2018ena Point Natural Area Reserve (NAR) on O\u2018ahu.<\/p>\n

The Natural Area Reserves System Commission has recommended that the area be added to the NAR. According to a report by the DLNR\u2019s Land Division, the parcel \u201ccontains basalt benches with numerous tide pools and a diverse intertidal flora and fauna, [and] rare coastal sand dune communities.\u201d Monk seals have been known to rest there, and the acquisition of the land would allow the department to better control invasive species as well as illegal human activities, the report added.<\/p>\n

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The Tom family (Gordon, Clayton, and Randall Tom and their spouses) were the would-be sellers, but a title search conducted by the department following the board\u2019s approval uncovered a significant cloud on the title, specifically, \u201can undocumented transfer of the fee interest in the property purportedly made by the initial Royal Patent Grant recipient,\u201d a Land Division report states. \u201cGiven the significant passage of time since the unrecorded conveyance, resolving the title issues would be prohibitive to both the landowner and the department due to the significant costs incurred,\u201d it states.<\/p>\n

The Tom family offered to continue with the transfer if the state just paid off their outstanding property taxes. The state was prevented from doing so by the clouded title. The North Shore Community Land Trust then stepped in, offering to pay the back taxes. As of last month, taxes due on the property totaled $6,143.45.<\/p>\n

At its June 8 meeting, the Land Board approved a request by the Land Division to acquire the property from the Toms via a quitclaim deed, since it would come at no cost to the state.<\/p>\n

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