I Have Two Mommies University of Hawai`i zoology student Lindsay Young has discovered something unexpected while studying Laysan albatross at O`ahu’s Ka`ena Point Natural Area Reserve: 25 percent of nesting pairs there are female-female. Although members of the public and … Continued
The operator of a longline fishing vessel operating out of California is seeking permission from the National Marine Fisheries Service to fish for swordfish using shallow-set lines within the 200-mile Exclusive Economic Zone off the West Coast. According to Mark … Continued
Citizen Alleges DOCARE Stopped Him From Testifying Before Board The plan was to keep the young men separated, perhaps seat them across the room from each other with enforcement officers on hand to quash any trouble. But that’s not what … Continued
“It’s hard, but it’s done already,” Dennis Kamikawa told the Western Pacific Fishery Management Council at its June meeting. Kamikawa, a commercial bottomfisherman for more than 15 years, is resigned to the harsh limits on bottomfishing recently laid down by … Continued
These days, most of the recently arrived invasive species in Hawai`i are accidents. No one intended to bring the wiliwili gall wasp to the islands; it was apparently a hitchhiker on imported nursery plants. Certainly no one thought it would … Continued
Amid much hoopla and ceremony, in June of 2006, as a smiling Governor Linda Lingle looked on, Ron Baird of the state’s Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawai`i Authority and Hans Krock, president of OCEES, signed a letter of intent, committing … Continued
There’s been a slight change of plans at the state’s natural energy lab at Keahole, just south of the Kona airport on the sunny leeward coast of the Big Island. For nearly two years, Ron Baird, administrator of the Natural … Continued
1976: Kaua`i, death by entanglement in gill net 1986: Necker, death by entanglement in a bridle rope of a lobster trap 1994: O`ahu’s west shore, death by entanglement in illegally set commercial gill net 1995: Kaua`i, ingestion of a recreational … Continued
Weeks before the state Board of Land and Natural Resources approved a revised, stricter set of lay gill-netting rules late last year, an endangered monk seal pup was found dead, wrapped in a gill net, on a beach in Waimanalo, … Continued