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Draft House and Senate Concurrent Resolution <br />Supporting Game Mammal, Game Bird, and Fishing Resources in order to promote <br />sustainability, food security, and to preserve long standing local and cultural practices. <br />WHEREAS, Hawaii imports between eighty-five and ninety percent of its food, <br />and in the event of a natural disaster or global event that prevents food <br />shipment, Hawaii could face a devastating food shortage; and <br />WHEREAS, the practice of fishing and hunting have a long history in the culture of <br />Hawaii; and <br />WHEREAS, today, the availability of fresh locally- caught fish is a basic expectation <br />in each of our communities; and <br />WHEREAS, Residents on the island of Molokai receives approximately 40% of their <br />daily sustenance from subsistence sources such as fishing, hunting and backyard <br />farming; and <br />WHEREAS, the residents of the Island of Hawaii harvest up to 1,000,000 lbs. of <br />game each year; <br />WHEREAS, In 1978, the State of Hawaii held a Constitutional Convention; and <br />WHEREAS, A proposal of the 1978 Constitutional Convention deleted the former <br />section 1 of the old Article X, which read: "Section 1. The legislature shall promote <br />the conservation, development and utilization of agricultural resources, and fish, <br />mineral, forest, water, land, game and other natural resources."; and <br />WHEREAS, If the amendment is purely stylistic and technical in nature, and does <br />not alter the sense, meaning or effect of any provision of the Constitution, it was <br />approved by the electorate and has become a part of the revised Constitution.; <br />and <br />WHEREAS, On the other hand, if the amendment alters the sense, meaning or <br />effect of any provision of the Constitution, it was not ratified and is not effective <br />to change the language of the Constitution; and <br />