With all due respect to those who support capping new permits, I see this as pretty much a fraud sold to a largely indifferent Legislature (that has refused to act to curtail the plundering of wild reef fish in Hawaii in the past). Unfortunately, given the way things work on this issue, it likely will be the only thing to survive the conference committee after DLNR kills the sustainability portion of the bill that it opposes. What's needed, obviously, is a ban on all commercial activity, not just on new commercial activity. And, it would really be helpful if DLNR finally started acting like a steward of these precious fish and their threatened habitat as opposed to the in-house lobbyist for an unregulated for profit industry that takes literally as much as it wants from the reefs.