From Alana: Too often loko i’a are talked about as things of the past, and somewhat obsolete. They are spoken of like memorials of a time past, a time when Hawaiians could essentially farm huge amounts of fish without even needing to feed them. But those days are over, right? No, they don’t have to [...]
Posts Tagged ‘fisheries’
We should take pride in our fishponds
Posted in 1, Aquaculture, conservation, fisheries, food sovereignty, island sustainability, tagged cultural practice, cultural rights, culture, fisheries on August 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Offshore Aquaculture is not Fishing Act of 2009″
Posted in Aquaculture, activism, conservation, fisheries, legislature, ocean protection, tagged activism, conservation, cultural rights, fisheries, legislature, ocean protection on August 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From Alana: As a result of many letters being sent to state representatives, Rep. Mazie Hirono has decided to co-sponsor the “Offshore Aquaculture is not Fishing Act of 2009″. The bill asserts that under the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, the Secretary of Commerce, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and regional fishery [...]
Hawaii’s aqua culture
Posted in Aquaculture, activism, conservation, fisheries, food sovereignty, island sustainability, land and cultural rights, ocean protection, tagged activism, conservation, cultural rights, endangered species, fisheries, hawaii, island sustainability, sustainability on August 2, 2009 | 3 Comments »
From Alana: From “Hawai’i has a lot to gain from open ocean aquaculture” in today’s Honolulu Advertiser: Just as we need to be off imported oil, we need to be off imported seafood. This opportunity can be an economic engine for Hawai’i, and hundreds of millions of dollars are at stake.Let’s not stand in our [...]
Open Ocean Aquaculture proves itself very controversial in on-going newspaper commentary
Posted in Aquaculture, activism, conservation, fisheries, food sovereignty, gmo, island sustainability, ocean protection, tagged conservation, fisheries, gmo, ocean, ocean protection, sustainability on July 31, 2009 | 1 Comment »
From Alana: For the past few weeks there have been numerous articles, editorials, and letters to editors in several local newspapers regarding open ocean aquaculture. A recent editorial in the Honolulu Advertiser states that the large size and experimental nature of the [Hawaii Oceanic Tech] project demands that state regulators, and the public, keep a [...]
Wespac Wants to Weaken Swordfish Fishery Rules
Posted in conservation, fisheries, ocean protection, tagged endangered species, fisheries, ocean protection, oceans on July 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From Alana: Instead of having a limit of 2,120 sets of fishing gear deployments annually, Wespac thinks it’s a better idea to just catch swordfish until a sea turtle gets tangled in the net… WHAT? Green sea turtles, loggerhead turtles, and leatherback turles are all endangered species that live in Hawaii. This new rule puts [...]
HVCA Aquaculture Meeting
Posted in Aquaculture, events, island sustainability, land and cultural rights, ocean protection, tagged Aquaculture, cultural practice, fisheries, gmo, ocean protection, sustainability on July 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From Alana: Entitled Aquaculture in Hawaii: Economic Advantage or Source of Sustainability, the Hawaii Venture Capitalist Association’s recent meeting addressed the benefits of many types of aquaculture in Hawaii. I think the presentation did a good job of explaining how aquaculture could be in Hawaii, in its most ideal form. One of the first things [...]
KAHEA Lawsuit Makes Headlines
Posted in Hawaiian Monk Seal, Northwest Hawaiian Islands, activism, conservation, fisheries, land and cultural rights, ocean protection, tagged activism, beaches, conservation, cultural rights, culture, fisheries, land and cultural rights, marine protected area, northwestern hawaiian islands, NWHI, ocean, ocean protection on July 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »
HONOLULU ADVERTISER, ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS WIRE REPORT ON CONTROVERSY by Stewart: KAHEA’s complaint asking a Hawaii court to require the state Department of Land and Natural Resources to follow state law concerning permits for the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands National Marine Monument has made news, as Hawaii’s largest newspaper and a national environmental wire service both published [...]
Murky Water Surrounds Fishery Management Council’s Records
Posted in conservation, fisheries, legislature, tagged fisheries, hawaii on July 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From Alana: Last week in the Honolulu Advertiser there was an article about the Western Pacific Fishery Management Council, which is supposed to “prevent overfishing, minimize bycatch, and protect fish stocks and habitat” in federal waters in the Pacific. The council was found to be less than accessible in terms of releasing public documents. At a [...]
Empty Reefs
Posted in conservation, fisheries, ocean protection, tagged fisheries, management, ocean protection, oceans, sustainability on June 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From Alana: This BBC News video shows how the growing demand for fish in places like inland China is putting a huge stress on coral reefs. Most adult fish have been caught, so the majority of fish sold in markets are juveniles that have not had a chance to reproduce yet. Because of this trend [...]
Fishing in NWHI?
Posted in 1, land and cultural rights, ocean protection, tagged cultural rights, fisheries, land and cultural rights, management plan, marine protected area, northwestern hawaiian islands, NWHI, ocean protection on June 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From Alana: On June 15, the third anniversary of the designation of the Northwest Hawaiian Islands as a national monument, a boat that was caught fishing multiple times in a highly protected area of the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument. The bottom-fishing boat was in a very restricted area of the monument, which extends 50 miles [...]
Monk Seal Protection Update
Posted in 1, Hawaiian Monk Seal, activism, ocean protection, tagged activism, fisheries, marine protected area, monk seals, northwestern hawaiian islands, ocean protection, oceans, shoreline on June 19, 2009 | 2 Comments »
from Stewart: After the Surfrider Foundation’s Kauai chapter offered a reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person responsible for killing two Hawaiian monk seals on Kauai, it raised an obvious question: Why is the Surfrider Foundation having to offer a reward? Where is the federal government? It turns out officials [...]
Restoring culture and game fish
Posted in 1, conservation, ocean protection, tagged fisheries, management plan on June 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From Alana: These days it seems like everyone who regularly fishes in the Islands have one question on their minds: where have all the fish gone? No, they didn’t swim away. No, they haven’t gone to another fishing spot. They have actually all been caught. This is the result of roughly a century of unregulated [...]
Kitty: Here’s a mirror
Posted in island sustainability, land and cultural rights, military toxics, ocean protection, tagged fisheries, Kitty Simonds, NWHI, open government, Pacific, transparency, WESAPC on January 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If Kitty Simonds (WESPAC Exec.) really believes what she wrote in this Sunday-Editorial, then this woman needs to take a good look in the mirror. She calls out the U.S. military for the harm its presence causes the people of the Pacific, when WESPAC’s own mismanagement over the last 25 years has decimated multiple fisheries [...]
Citizen Groups Sue Federal Fisheries Group for Failing to Disclose Use of Funds
Posted in ocean protection, tagged fisheries, lawsuit, management, WESPAC on January 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
A lawsuit seeking basic government documents has been filed in Federal District Court against the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council (WESPAC), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) by the Conservation Council for Hawaii, KAHEA: The Hawaiian-Environmental Alliance (KAHEA), and the LOST FISH Coalition. The lawsuit was [...]
Uncle Buzzy Calls for Renewed Committment to Pu`uhonua, Sunday’s Star-Bulletin
Posted in ocean protection, tagged coral, fisheries, fishing, harvest, human footprint, management, NWHI, permits, protection, pu'uhonua, research, science on March 5, 2008 | 3 Comments »
We opened up the Star-Bulletin on Sunday, and there in the Gathering Place section was long-time NWHI advocate Uncle Buzzy, calling for a renewed public commitment to a true pu`uhonua — a ‘forever sanctuary’ — in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Ho‘omaika‘i ia Uncle Buzzy! Uncle Louis “Buzzy” Agard, is a founding Board Member of KAHEA [...]
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