When it comes to air quality, few places can top Hawai’i. But if this year is like most others, in coming weeks, the islands will be visited by a high, thick brown cloud of pollutants, making its annual springtime trek … Continued
The World Aquaculture Society meeting, held in Honolulu last month, started out with a bang: Jane Lubchenco, a well-known, eminently respected marine scientist, addressed the 700 delegates, challenging them to understand the “global context” of aquaculture over the last 20 … Continued
The state Commission on Water Re-source Management has gutted its own efforts to keep the Maui Department of Water Supply from over-pumping the Waihe’e aquifer. Instead of having a trigger in place that could result in automatic designation of the … Continued
DLNR Defends Executive Sessions Protecting private individuals from embarrassment is a valid reason for the Board of Land and Natural Resources to meet in private. That’s according to Linda Chow, a deputy attorney general assigned to the Department of Land … Continued
If Lyle Wong is nothing else, he is persistent. For thirty-plus years, Wong, who is the head of the Plant Industry Division of the state Department of Agriculture, has been a true believer in the power of irradiation to cure … Continued
If we truly want to develop Hawai‘i agricul tural products, it is important that the flow of those products to the mainland market is not monopolized,” irradiator developer Michael Kohn told Environment Hawai‘i in explaining his reason for pushing forward … Continued
Talk about poor timing. On March 17, 2003, shortly after noon, James H. Moy, a professor of molecular bio sciences and bioengineering with the University of Hawai‘i’s College of Tropical Agricul ture and Human Resources, left the Hawai‘i Research Irradiator … Continued
Last month, the National Marine Fisher-ies Service published a final rule limiting catches of bigeye tuna in the eastern Pacific (east of 150* West meridian). The rule, intended to address diminishing stocks of this fish in the Eastern Tropical Pacific, … Continued
If you shut down a fishery when no boats are on the water anyway, is there any real conservation benefit to the closure? That’s the question that arises after reading the final rule published by the National Marine Fisheries Service … Continued
Early last September, the Department of Health’s Clean Air Branch fined Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Company (HC&S) $1,977,700 for burning the wrong fuel in its Pu’unene mill for 30 years. HC&S has been reported as saying that the large fine … Continued