Fish

Looting the Seas is an award-winning project by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists looking at forces that are rapidly emptying oceans of fish. In its first installment ICIJ documented the massive black market in threatened bluefin tuna. In the second, it revealed that billions of dollars in subsidies flow into the Spanish fishing industry […]

Tell DLNR that you support Maui Nui being chosen as the start up site for DOCARE’s fisheries enforcement’s pilot project. Lahaina 12pm. Kahului 2:30pm.

HB850 HD1 SD2 Lana’i Fishery Management Area – 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. No conference committee hearings have been scheduled as of this […]

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 […]

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 […]