Tuna Little, Tuna Late? At last month’s meeting of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission in Guam, the central issue on the table was how to conserve bigeye and yellowfin tuna stocks. And according to Paul Dalzell, senior scientist for the Western Pacific Fishery Management Council, headquartered in Honolulu, and head of the international commission’s working group on the subject, “there was no conservation movement at all on yellowfin and bigeye.”…

Studying Hard: Last year, research was by far the most commonly permitted activity in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands and Midway and French Frigate Shoals were the most visisted, according to a recent update by the co-trustees of the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument. A 2007 summary of activities in the monument, which does not include fishing activities permitted by the Western Pacific Fishery Management Council, states that 36 of the 51 permits issued were for research….

Blowing Up: If all goes as planned, UPC Wind and Makani Nui Associates, which owns and operates the 30-megawatt Kaheawa wind farm on Maui, will expand its operations to O`ahu and Kaua`i. …