Haw. Code R. § 13-76-2
As used in this chapter unless otherwise provided:
"Board" means the board of land and natural resources.
"Department" means the department of land and natural resources.
"Master" means the person authorized by the vessel operator to be the captain of the vessel.
"Non-indigenous aquatic species" means any marine, brackish water, or freshwater species or other viable biological material, including, but not limited to, eggs, spores, or seeds, that enters or exists in an ecosystem where it was not known to have existed before, is outside its natural or historic range, or may have come to Hawaii by human introduction.
"Person" means any individual, corporation, partnership, trust, association, or other private entity, or any officer, employee, agent, department, or instrumentality of the federal government, of any state or political subdivision thereof, or of any foreign government.
"State" means the State of Hawaii.
"State marine waters" means all waters of the State, including the water column and the water surface, extending from the upper reaches of the wash of the waves on shore seaward to the limit of the
State's police power and management authority, including the United States territorial sea, notwithstanding any law to the contrary.
"USCG" means the United States Coast Guard.
"Vessel operator" means a company that owns, operates or has chartered a vessel.
Haw. Code R. § 13-76-2