JOINT OVERSIGHT FIELD HEARING ON THE 

 ROLE OF NATIVE HAWAIIANS AND INDIGE- 

 NOUS PACIFIC ISLANDERS IN THE CON- 

 SERVATION, MANAGEMENT AND DEVELOP- 

 MENT OF WESTERN PACIFIC FISHERIES 

 CONSISTENT WITH THE GOALS OF CON- 

 SERVATION AND MANAGEMENT OF OCEAN 

 RESOURCES 



THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 1995 



U.S. Senate, Committee on Indian Affairs, Meeting 



Jointly With the Subcommittee on Oceans and 



Fisheries of the Committee on Commerce, 



Honolulu, HI. 

 The committees met, pursuant to notice, at 9 a.m. at Aha 

 Kaulike, U.S. District Court room, fourth floor, U.S. Court House 

 Building, 300 Ala Moana Boulevard, Honolulu, HI, Hon. Daniel K. 

 Inouye (vice chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs) presid- 

 ing. 

 Present: Senators Inouye and Akaka. 



STATEMENT OF HON. DAMEL K. INOUYE, U.S. SENATOR FROM 

 HAWAn, VICE CHAHIMAN, COMMITTEE ON INDIAN AFFAmS 



Senator Inouye. Good morning. 



The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs and the Subcommittee 

 on Oceans and Fisheries of the Senate Committee on Commerce 

 meet this morning to receive testimony on proposed amendments 

 to the Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act. As a 

 member of both committees, I have been authorized to chair this 

 joint hearing of the two committees. 



A bill to reauthorize the Magnuson Act has recently been re- 

 ported by the Committee on Resources in the U.S. House of Rep- 

 resentatives. In the next few weeks, the Senate Committee on 

 Commerce will undertake work on a bill to reauthorize the Magnu- 

 son Act. 



We have scheduled this hearing this morning so that the commit- 

 tees might have the benefit of your testimony as the Senate begins 

 consideration of the reauthorization of the Magnuson Fishery Con- 

 servation and Management Act. 



There are three concepts that we will be focusing on today. The 

 first is a proposed amendment to the Magnuson Act that would 



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