Indigenous Fishing Rights

(a)The policy of the government of Guam is that the CHamoru people shall have special rights to offshore (fishing and harvesting of resources in order to redress historical discriminatory policies. The CHamoru people, the Native Inhabitants of Guam, are defined in Title 1 GCA, Chapter 21, § 2102 as “those persons who became U.S. Citizens by virtue of the authority and enactment of the 1950 Organic Act of Guam and descendants of those persons.”

(b)The Department of Agriculture is hereby tasked to develop rules and regulations to put this policy into effect and submit the draft rules and regulations, in accordance with the Administrative Adjudication Law

(AAL)found in Chapter 9 of Title 5, Guam Code Annotated, to I Liheslatura for review and approval. Such rules and regulations may be revisited annually for revision through the AAL process.

(c)At all stages of development of the rules, the Department shall seek the input of and consult with an Indigenous Native Resources Task Force, which shall be comprised of ten

(10)voting members: four

(4)men, four

(4)women, and two

(2)youths of adult age, all of CHamoru ancestry.

(1)The Task Force shall be comprised of one

(1)representative each elected from no more than ten

(10)CHamoru grassroots organizations.

(2)Each Task Force member shall be a resident of Guam for at least five

(5)years.

(3)The Task Force shall participate together with the Department of Agriculture in the formulation of the rules and regulations required by this Section.