§187A-6.5 Release and confiscation of harmful aquatic life. (a) No person shall release any live non-native fish or other live non-native aquatic life being held in an aquarium or other confinement for scientific study, exhibition, display, sale, or for any other purpose, into any waters of the State, except as provided in section 187A-2(4).
(b) The department or its agents may seize, confiscate, or destroy, as a public nuisance, any fish or other aquatic life found in any waters of the State and whose importation is prohibited or restricted pursuant to rules of the department of agriculture. [L 1993, c 256, §1; am L 1999, c 195, §2]
Structure Hawaii Revised Statutes
Title 12. Conservation and Resources
187A-1.6 Applicability of statutes and rules.
187A-2 Powers and duties of department.
187A-3.5 Aquaculturist license and license to sell prohibited aquatic life.
187A-5.5 Consistency of state and federal fisheries regulations.
187A-6 Special activity permits.
187A-6.5 Release and confiscation of harmful aquatic life.
187A-8 Cooperation with other governmental authorities.
187A-9 Federal aid in sport fish restoration.
187A-10 Agents to sell licenses.
187A-12 University of Hawaii may use land, etc.
187A-12.4 Misrepresentation or false statement in receipts and reports.
187A-12.5 General administrative penalties.
187A-13 General penalty; community service.
187A-15 Rights of inspection of catch.
187A-21 Public fishing grounds.
187A-22 Use of adjoining lands.
187A-32 Alien aquatic organisms; lead agency; rules.
187A-41 Aquatic mitigation banking.