Guam § 63133 - Indigenous Fishing Rights.
Full text of Guam Guam Code Annotated § 63133 — Indigenous Fishing Rights., with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 63133. Indigenous Fishing Rights.
(a) The policy of the government of Guam is that the CHamoru people shall have special rights to off-
shore (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.
Source: official Guam text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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Section 63133 ("Indigenous Fishing Rights.") is part of the Guam Code Annotated, the codified statutory law of Guam. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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