Book Price: $210. Taxpayer's Cost: $540

posted in: November 2012 | 0

In the spring of 2011, Wiley-Blackwell, the well regarded publisher of scientific texts, came out with new title: Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management in the Western Pacific. A blurb on the book’s back cover states that it “documents a three-part series of … Continued

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Plans for Ka`u Forest, `Ahihi-Kinau Approved; Honolulu Reserve Expands On September 28, the Land Board voted to exchange its interest in four parcels in Niu Valley for the fee simple interest in one of them, which will be added to … Continued

Challenging the Dogma of MSY

posted in: May 2012 | 0

Carmel Finley. All the Fish in the Sea: Maximum Sustainable Yield and the Failure of Fisheries Management. University of Chicago Press, 2011. 224 pages. Cloth: $35.00.  “MSY: A quantity that has been shown by biologists not to exist, and by … Continued

Editorial: The High Cost of Cheap Tuna

posted in: Editorial, May 2012 | 0

The 50 or so member states and participating non-members of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission can agree on very little. Yet when the commission’s chaotic eighth meeting concluded after five long and raucous days of plenary sessions, with … Continued

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posted in: Board Talk, May 2012 | 0

Limu Stewards Oppose Plan to Alter Sand Berm in `Ewa Limu gatherers are once again challenging drainage improvements proposed for the mouth of Kaloi Gulch in `Ewa, O`ahu. But this time, they aren’t just up against Haseko (`Ewa), Inc. The … Continued