364 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 
newspaper, for public information, at the expense of said minister, to be included 
by him according to a fixed rate in the fees to be received at his department from the 
respective landlords. 
Sec. V. The specific fish so set apart shall be exclusively for the use of the land- 
lord if caught within the bounds of his fishery, and neither his tenants nor others 
shall be at liberty to appropriate such reserved fish to their private use; but when 
caught such reserved fish shall be the property of the landlord, for which he shall 
be at liberty to use and recover the value from any fisherman appropriating the 
same; and, moreover, if he take one fish criminally he shall pay five, and in that 
proportion shall pay the full amount of what he may have taken wrongfully, Who- 
ever may have taken fish in violation of this law, without paying as above, shall: be 
fined fifty dollars for each offense. 
Sec. VI. The landlords shall not have power to lay any taxes or to impose any 
other restrictions upon their tenants regarding the private fisheries than is in the 
preceding section prescribed, neither shall such further restrictions be valid. 
Sec. VII. It shall be competent to the landlords, on consultation with the tenants 
of their lands, in lieu of setting apart some peculiar fish to their exclusive use as 
hereinbefore allowed, to prohibit during certain indicated months of the year all 
fishing of every description upon their fisheries; and during the fishing season to 
exact of each fisherman among their tenants one-third part of all the fish taken 
upon their private fishing grounds. In every such case it shall be incumbent on the 
landlords to comply in like manner with the requirements of the fourth section of 
this article. 
Sec. VIII. The royal fish shall appertain to the Hawaiian Government and shall 
be the following,* viz: 
First. The bonito when off any part of the coast of Lanai. 
Second. The albicore of Hawaii. 
Third. The mullet of Huleia, Anehola,and Hanalei; the squid and freshwater fish 
of Kauai. 
Fourth. The shoal fish taken at the following places noted for the abundance of 
fish frequenting them: Off Oahu: 1, Kalia; 2, Keehi; 3, Kapapa; 4, Malaeakuli, and 
5, Pahihi. 
Fifth. Off Molokai: 1, Punalau; 2, Ooia; 3, Kawai; 4, Koholanui; 5, Kaonini; 6, 
Aikoolua; 7, Waiokama, and 8, Heleiki. 
Sixth. And off Maui; the kuleku of Honuaula; and the same whenever found off 
said island. 
Seventh. All the following transient fish, viz: 1, the kule; 2, the anaeholo; 3, the 
alalauwa; 4, the uhukai; 5, the kawelea; 6, the kawakawa; 7, the kalaku. 
These shall be divided equally between the King and fishermen. But on all the 
prohibited fishing grounds the landlords shall be entitled to one species of fish and 
those who have walled fish ponds shall be allowed to scoop up small fish to replenish 
their ponds. If the prohibited fish of the landlord be mingled with the royal fish, 
then the landlord shall be entitled to one-third of the whole of the fish taken, though 
this applies only to Molokai, Oahu, and the reefs of Kauai. 
All which shall be yearly protected by the king’s taboo, to be imposed by the 
minister of the interior by means of circular from his department, as prescribed in 
the act to organize the executive ministry; and during the specified season of taboo 
they shall not be subject to be taken by the people. 
Sec. IX. At the expiration of the taboo seasons all persons inhabiting these islands 
shall be at liberty to take the protected fish, accounting to the fishery agents of the 


* A number of the common names in use at that time have since been changed so that at present it 
is a difficult matter to determine the scientific names of the species mentioned in the law. The fol- 
lowing are some which have been determined: The bonito, Gymnosarda pelamis; the albicore, Germo 
sibi; the mullet, Mugil dobula; kule, Trachurops crumenophthalmus; the anaeholo, a young mullet; 
the alalauwa, Priacanthus; the kawakawa, Gymnosarda alleterata. 
