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Support for RESOLUTION NO 308 10
Thank you
Kara M. Osada - D'Avella
4/6/2010
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From: karaosada @gmail.com on behalf of Kara Osada [Kara @KonaCPR
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 10:54 AM
To: counciltestimony @co hawaii.hi.us
Subject: Testimony Support for RESOLUTION NO 308 10'
1 write to you today to support Resolution no 308 10 that will:
Kara Osada- D'Avella
Masters Candidate
Tropical Conservation Biology and Environmental Science
University of Hawaii Hilo
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Within the state of Hawaii, our marine aquarium fish numbers are in decline. Past efforts through Fish
Replenishment Areas and Marine Life Conservation districts have assisted with decreasing fishing
pressures within these areas where fish are abundance is recovering, but areas outside of FRA's and
MLCD's are declining as fishing pressure has increased. Even with current management in place to
help rebuild stocks, open areas have seen a 46 percent decline in yellow tang abundance in the last
decade. We need resolution 308 10.
The concepts within Resolution no 308 10 have been vetted in the public and is fully supported by the
West Hawaii Fisheries Council. Res. No 308 10 is not trying to close the fishery, but is a way to better
manage it as current levels of aquarium fishing are unsustainable even with the current 34% of the
coastline off limits to fishing.
1. Implement adaptive management of the Fish Replenishment Areas which specifically allows a reef
area at Pebble Beach South Kona to be closed to aquarium collecting while opening a similarly sized
area at Keauhou for limited collecting by lottery thus maintaining a balanced proportion of open to
closed fish collection
areas
2. Create a tropical fish white list specifying which species can be collected for the aquarium trade and a
bag limit for large reproductively mature yellow tang and
3. Propose Limited Entry regulations for West Hawaii that would ensure participation in fish collection
for the aquarium industry requires a high level of skill experience and regulatory compliance by fishers
protects the economic value of the reefs and their marine life and provides economic incentive to fishers
to promote good stewardship of the reefs
Comm. No. — 730,3
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Ref. Dote APR 0 7'2010
Ph: 808 - 896 -1889
Email: Kara @KonaCPR.com
4/6/2010
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