COL 6/21/2023

5 Guam Code Ann. GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS
CH. 63 FISH, GAME, FORESTRY & CONSERVATION

It shall be unlawful for any person to kill, maim or injure any fish or game without making a reasonable effort to retrieve the fish or game and to include it in his or her daily bag or creel limit.

SOURCE: GC § 12311.1 added by P.L. 12-163 (Sept. 6, 1974).

§ 63117.1. Purpose of Community-Based Fisheries
Management.

(a) The purpose of a community-based fisheries management strategy is to empower coastal resource communities to protect, preserve, manage, and conserve aquatic life, habitat, and marine communities and ecosystems, and to ensure the health, welfare and integrity of marine resources for current and future generations through a more holistic ecosystem-based management approach, which shall be consistent with this Chapter and 9 GAR Chapter 12 (Fishing Regulations).

(b) The Director of the Department of Agriculture, Mayors, and Municipal Planning Councils shall have the authority to designate community-based fisheries managed areas and develop fisheries management plans, along with rules and regulations subject to the Administrative Adjudication Law, 5 Guam Code Ann. Chapter
9. Such rules and regulations may be revisited annually for any revisions to be made through the Administrative Adjudication
Law process.

SOURCE: Added by P.L. 34-072:4 (Feb. 9, 2018).

2018 NOTE: P.L. 34-072 stated the following:

Section 2. This Act shall be known and may be cited as the
“”Marine Conservation Act of 2018.

Section 7. Any fisheries management plan authorized by this Act shall acknowledge that the Department of Agriculture and the Guam Police Department shall have full authority to enforce the laws of Guam within community-based fisheries.

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Section 8. The fisheries management plans authorized by this Act shall specify who shall be granted access to monitor fish and coral stock, or assess the success of management goals in other ways, and shall provide that all data will be shared with the relevant Municipal Planning Council, the Department of Agriculture, the Bureau of Statistics and Plans, and the University of Guam Marine Lab.

COL 6/21/2023

5 Guam Code Ann. GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS
CH. 63 FISH, GAME, FORESTRY & CONSERVATION

Subsection designations added pursuant to the authority of 1 Guam Code Ann. § 1606.