Haw. Code R. § 13-47-2 - Prohibited activities

(a) No person shall engage in the following activities within Hilo harbor, Wailoa river, and Wailuku river:

(1) Take or possess any aquatic life that is in violation of a season, minimum size, or other law;

(2) Take or possess more than an aggregate total of twenty fishes of mullet, moi and ulua including papio; provided that this bag limit shall not include either more than fifteen moi per day or more than ten mullet per day;

(3) Take or possess more than three Samoan crabs per day;

(4) Take or possess any crab with external eggs, or with a missing or mutilated abdomen or tail;

(5) Take any crab with spears or any other implement capable of inflicting a puncture wound, or to possess any crab with a puncture wound;

(6) Take aquatic life with more than two poles with one line each, or two hand lines, or with more than two hooks or two lures per line;

(7) Take crabs except by the use of:

(A) Baited lines, provided that dip nets may be used to land crabs lured by the bait attached to the line; and

(B) Crab nets not exceeding two feet (0.61 meter) in the longest straight line dimension and stretched mesh of not less than two inches (5.08 centimeters); provided that any fisherman shall not fish with more than five crab nets at any time and those nets shall be attended at all times;

(8) Use traps;

(9) Use netting except:

(A) Opae nets not exceeding three feet (0.91 meter) in any dimension; and

(B) Nehu nets not longer than fifty feet to take nehu for family consumption or bait purposes; and

(10) Snag any fish.

(b) Unless otherwise allowed by law, it is unlawful for any person to possess a throw net or to engage in throw netting in the Wailoa River.

(c) Unless otherwise allowed by law, it is unlawful for any person to possess a spear or to engage in spearing in the Wailoa River.

Notes

Haw. Code R. § 13-47-2

[Eff: 5/26/81; am and comp 3/20/87; am and com 3/7/88; am and comp 1/15/99; am and comp DEC 19 2002] (Auth: HRS § 188-53) (Imp: HRS §§ 188-34, 188-44, 188-45, 188-58)