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KUKULU KE EA A KANALOA 



COLETTE Y MACHAOC 



BRIAN MISKA; 



CRAIG N€r : 



Michael D. Wilson 



KAHO'OLAWE ISLAND RESERVE COMMISSION 



33 South King Street, Room 403 Honolulu, Hawai i 96813 

 Telephone 1808)586-0761 



TESTIMONY OF 



R. KEONI FAIRBANKS, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR 



KAHO OLAWE ISLAND RESERVE COMMISSION 



STATE OF HAWAI I 



BEFORE THE UNITED STATES COMMITTEE ON INDIAN AFFAIRS 

 AND SENATE COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE, 

 SUBCOMMITTEE ON OCEAN AND FISHERIES 



JUNE 1, 1995 



Thank you for the opportunity to testify on behalf of the Kaho olawe Island Reserve 

 Commission (KJRC). The KJRC supports the draft amendments to the Magnuson Fishery 

 Conservation and Management Act to authorize community-based fishery demonstration 

 projects. Please allow me to provide you with some information about Kaho'olawe and the 

 proposed management of its ocean resources. 



On May 7, 1994, the island of Kaho'olawe was formally conveyed to the State of Hawaii 

 from the U.S. Navy. The 1993 Hawai i State Legislature set aside the island and its 

 surrounding waters out to two miles as the Kaho'olawe Island Reserve by creating Chapter 

 6K, Hawaii Revised Statutes. Chapter 6K establishes the Kaho'olawe Island Reserve 

 Commission to manage the Reserve. The purposes of the Reserve are: 



1. Preservation and practice of all rights customarily and traditionally exercised by native 

 Hawaiians for cultural, spiritual, and subsistence purposes; 



2. Preservation and protection of its archaeological, historical, and environmental 

 resources; 



3. Rehabilitation, revegctation, habitat restoration, and preservation; and 



4. Education. 



The law prohibits commercial uses within the Reserve and establishes the Reserve as a trust 

 to be transferred to a sovereign Native Hawaiian entity upon its recognition by Congress and 

 the State of Hawai' i. 



Traditional Hawaiian 'ohana values are intended to guide the use of the resource: 



■ With rights of use come the obligation to care for and protect the resources; 



• Take only what is needed for the subsistence of your ohana; 



• Allow the resources to reproduce, and overharvested areas rest to recover. 



