Kona Blue Water Farms has applied for a permit to determine whether it would be possible to grow young amberjack to harvest size over 10 months in submerged cages tethered to surface buoys drifting freely on a circular ocean current off the Big Island. See Star Advertiser for more Kona Blue’s other open ocean fish […]
HB1312 to Give Over Boat Harbors to Private Company Development
HB1312 Ala Wai Boat Harbor; Leases; Submerged Lands; Request for Proposals Provides that state fast lands and submerged lands may be leased. Provides for the lease of fast lands and submerged lands of the Ala Wai boat harbor pursuant to requests for proposals. Effective July 1, 2030. (SD1)
Lana’i Fishing Bill
HB850 Relating to Fishing – This establishes a community-based fishery resource management area around Lana’i, and an advisory committee to the Department of Land and Natural Resources to develop traditional fishery management practices, and advise proposed rules for take of fishery resources. Senate WLH Committee passed the bill with amendments, including a provision to incorporate […]
Open-ocean aquaculture needs more scrutiny
ISLAND VOICES Open-ocean aquaculture needs more scrutiny By Andrea Brower POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Mar 04, 2011 Despite significant environmental, cultural and economic concerns about open-ocean aquaculture (OOA), permitting and other forms of government support make Hawaii “ground zero” for testing this risky new technology. The dominant story justifying OOA is part of a larger […]
Aquarium Bill Hearing
Sick Tang in Aquarium with its fins rotted off Senate Bill 580 to protect Hawaii’s reef wildlife from the aquarium trade is now scheduled for a Tuesday hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee, chaired by Sen. Clayton Hee: See bill here. Senate Water & Land Committee revised SB 580 so that the bill gives Maui […]
Lana’i students Limu restoration
The Maui News In restoration, hands get wet and brains fed Lana’i students are attempting limu restoration