Hawai'i Coral Reef Network

Marine Protected Areas in Hawai'i

Kiholo Bay FMA, 
Hawai'i

Established 1997

 

Location: The Kiholo Bay Fisheries Management Area shall include that portion of the submerged lands and overlying waters of Kiholo Bay beginning at the highwater mark at the shoreline and extending seaward out to an imaginary line drawn between a sign posted onshore at Hou Point and a sign posted onshore at Nawaikulua Point, including the lagoon known as Wainanali’i Pond but not including Luahinewai Pond, and depicted in the "Map of the Kiholo Bay Fisheries Management Area, Hawaii, 4/10/96." 

Permitted

  • Any person issued an aquarium fish permit may use small-meshed nets other than thrownets within the Kiholo Bay Fisheries Management Area; provided that the person is within visual range of the net at all times.

Prohibited

  • Unless otherwise allowed by law, it is unlawful for any person to possess gillnets within the Kiholo Bay Fisheries Management Area.

 

See also: Administrative Rules

 


Last update: 6/12/2002