[§188-22.8]  Limu management area.  (a) There is established a limu management area from the shoreline and extendingone hundred fifty feet seaward in Ewa beach from the gunnery range to the boatramp on Muumuu street.

(b)  No person, including a person with acommercial fishing license, shall pick, gather, harvest, or otherwise take limufrom within the limu management area beginning no sooner than January 1, 2007;provided that this section shall not apply to a person who has obtained aspecial permit to pick limu for purposes of replanting.

(c)  Beginning no sooner than January 1, 2010,a person, including a person with a commercial fishing license, may hand-picklimu in the limu management area from 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., only during themonths of July, November, and December of each year.  A maximum of one poundfor all types of limu combined may be hand-picked per day by any person,including any person possessing a commercial fishing license.

(d)  This section shall not apply to any personexercising native Hawaiian gathering rights and traditional cultural practicesas authorized by law or as permitted by the department of land and naturalresources pursuant to article xii,section 7 of the Hawaii state constitution.

(e)  The department of land and naturalresources shall adopt rules pursuant to chapter 91 necessary for the purposesof this section. [L 2006, c 293, §2]