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What I want to note is when I saw agriculture bill, it departs in 

 a way from the traditional method of these marine resources. The 

 type of agriculture we're talking about that you compare it to, the 

 traditional, the traditional is where the natural resources are used 

 and the time to feed and everything is there, but in what you call 

 the modern method, you have to have aeration, you have to have 

 feed, you have to have the proper stocks and also the current 

 through whatever area you're using, whether it's a pond or some- 

 thing else. 



These speak to the problems we're facing in the future. Popu- 

 lation is growing on earth and in a sense, no longer can we go out 

 and hunt fish or get out to the wild because as we pointed out, the 

 resources are being depleted. So we have to look inward and begin 

 to grow our own and what it is is growing fauna and flora not on 

 land but in water. So this is a method that is being used in the 

 United States and hopefully even in Hawaii, we can use this mod- 

 ern method as well as well as traditional methods. I just point that 

 out as another step in being sure that we have tne kind of re- 

 sources we need for our people. 



Again, I want to thank all of you and I want to thank the Chair- 

 man for this hearing. 



Senator Inouye. Thank you very much. 



Before we adjourn this hearing on the Fisheries Act, the commit- 

 tee has received requests to testify from three citizens and so if I 

 may, I would like to call them up: Sherry Broder to present testi- 

 mony for Clayton Hee; Scotty Bowman of OHA; and Harold 

 Meheula, President of the Native Hawaiians Fishermens Associa- 

 tion. 



Ms. Broder, welcome. 



I hope we will be able to accommodate the next hearing, so if you 

 could summarize your statement, I would appreciate it. 



STATEMENT OF SHERRY P. BRODER, ESQUIRE, ON BEHALF OF 

 CLAYTON H. HEE, CHAIRMAN, BOARD OF TRUSTEES, STATE 

 OF HAWAII, OFFICE OF HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS 



Ms. Broder. Good morning, Senators Inouye and Akaka. My 

 name is Sherry Broder. I'm the attorney for the Trustees of the Of- 

 fice of Hawaiian Affairs. 



Today, I'm testifying on behalf of Chairman Clayton Hee. He re- 

 grets tnat he was not able to attend. Because of the importance of 

 these Federal matters to Native Hawaiians, Chairman Hee wishes 

 to offer testimony in addition to the testimony of Scotty Bowman 

 of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs. 



In this testimony, the focus is on the similarities between Native 

 Hawaiians and other Native Americans in terms of their legal sta- 

 tus. Native Hawaiians are not Indians ethnically or culturally. Na- 

 tive Hawaiians are Polynesians with a rich tradition of their own 

 but in their relationship with the United States, and in their legal 

 status, the similarities are clear. 



Like other Native Americans, the Native Hawaiians have had 

 their own sovereign nation and their own highly evolved and so- 

 phisticated culture prior to Western contact. And like other Native 

 Americans, the Native Hawaiians lost their autonomy and much of 

 their culture as a result of this contact. 



