362 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 
If any of the landlords lay a protective taboo on their fish, when the proper fishing 
season arrives all the people may take fish, and when the fish are collected they 
shall be divided, one-third to the fishermen and two-thirds to the landlord. If the 
landlord seize all the fish and leave none for the fishermen, the punishment is the 
same as that of the landlords who lay a duty on the fish of the people. 
If, however, there is any plantation having fishing grounds belonging to it, but no 
reef, the sea being deep, it shall still be proper for the landlord to lay a taboo on one 
species of fish for himself, but one species only. If the parrot-fish, then the parrot- 
fish only; but if some other fish, then that only and not the parrot-fish. These are 
the enactments respecting the free fishing grounds, and respecting the taking of fish. 
2. Respecting the tabooed fishing grounds.—Those fishing grounds which are known by 
the people to have shoals of fish remaining upon them shall, at the proper season for 
fishing, be placed under the protective taboo of the tax officers for the King. The 
fishing grounds on Oahu thus protected are: 1, Kalia; 2, Keehi; 3, Kapapa; 4, Malae- 
akuli; 5, Pahihi. On Molokai as follows: 1, Punalau; 2, Ooia; 3, Kawai; 4, Koho- 
lanul; 5, Kaonini; 6, Aikoolua; 7, Waiokama; 8, Heleiki. On Lanai, the bonito and 
the parrot-fish. On Maui, the kuleku of Honuaula and other places. On Hawaii, 
the albicore. ; 
On Kauai, the mullet of Huleia, Anehola, Kahili, and Hanalei, and the squid and 
fresh-water fish of Mana, the permanent shoal fish of Niihau, and all the transient 
shoal fish from Hawaii to Niihau, if in sufficient quantity to fill two or more canoes, 
but not so small a quantity as to fill one canoe only. But if the fishermen go and 
borrow a large canoe, that all the fish may be put into one, then there shall be a 
duty upon them. 
On the above conditions there shall be a government duty on all the transient shoal 
fish of the islands. The tax officer shall lay a protective taboo on those fish for his 
Majesty the King, and when the proper time for taking the fish arrives, then the 
fish shall be divided in the same manner as those which are under the protective 
taboo of the landlords. 
If the tax officer seize all the fish of the fisherman, and leave none for those who 
take them, then he shall pay a fine of ten dollars, and shall have nothing more to say 
respecting the royal takes. But if the order for seizing all the fish of the fishermen was 
from the governor, then he shall no longer be governor, though he may hold his own 
lands, and the tax officer shall not be turned out of office. At the proper time the tax 
officer may lay a protective taboo on all the King’s fish and the landlords all around 
the island. But it is not proper that the officer should lay the taboo for a long time. 
The best course is for the officer to give previous notice to the fishermen, and then 
the common people and the landlords, to fish on the same day. Thus the rights of 
all will be protected. 
But no restrictions whatever shall by any means be laid on the sea without the reef, 
even to the deepest ocean, though those particular fish which the general tax officer 
prohibits, and those of the landlords which swim into those seas, are taboo. The fine 
of those who take prohibited fish is specified above. 
KAMEHAMEHA. 
KEKAULUOHI, 
Fnacted June 7, 1839. 
On April 1, 1841, the nobles met at Luaehu, in Lahaina, and made 
the following changes in the above laws: | 
5. Of shoal fish.—From the eighth section of the third chapter of this law, which 
is found on thirty-eighth page, certain words shall be erased, as follows: ‘If in 
sufficient quantities to fill two or more canoes, but not so small a quantity as to fill 
one canoe only.”’ 
The transient shoal fish spoken of in this laware: (1) The Akule, (2) the Anaeholo, 
(3) the Alalauwa, (4) the Uhukai, (5) the Kawelea, (6) the Kawakawa, (7) the 
