Settlement Lets Pacific Paradise Owner Pay DLNR Cents on the Dollar for Damage to Reef
At approximately 10:30 p.m. on October 10, 2017, the Commercial Fishing Vessel (CFV) Pacific Paradise, a 79’ longline fishing vessel owned by TWOL, LLC, ran aground in shallow waters of the Waikiki-Diamond Head Shoreline Fisheries Management Area (FMA). Over the … Continued
Feds Seek Reimbursement of Costs To Salvage Grounded Fishing Vessel
The federal government is suing the owners of the Pacific Paradise for at least $1.66 million in an effort to recover costs associated with removing the fishing vessel from the reef off Waikiki where it ran aground in October 2017. … Continued
Discrepancies in Records of Vessel Owners
Michael Tosatto, administrator of the Pacific Islands Regional Office (PIRO) of the National Marine Fisheries Service, says his office requires holders of longline permits “to list the business and to declare (under penalty of perjury) that the information is true. … Continued
EDITORIAL: Longline Fishers Need Better Regulation
The pursuit of tuna can be profitable for holders of permits allowing them to catch prized bigeye in waters around Hawai‘i. Here are a few of the benefits those permits confer to those who hold them: They can pay their … Continued
Parties Offer Final Arguments In Na Wai Eha Contested Case
“No pressure, but history is in your hands,” attorney Pamela Bunn told the Commission on Water Resource Management during oral arguments in the Na Wai Eha contested case hearing, held November 19 in Wailuku. Fifteen years after Earthjustice, on behalf … Continued
BOARD TALK: Owners of Sunset Beach Home Contest Proposed Fine, Sand Burrito Removal
One would think home buyers might want to conduct due diligence investigations before they close on a home along Sunset Beach that looks as though it might not survive the winter swells without some fortification. One would also think the … Continued
City Climate Change Commission Mulls Changes to Shoreline Setback Ordinance
Sunset Beach homeowners Gary and Cynthia Stanley may have bought some time to keep their unauthorized sandbag burrito pile in place through the winter by requesting a contested case hearing from the Board of Land and Natural Resources (see Board … Continued
New & Noteworthy: Sad Trees, Happy Bats
Can’t Cool Down: More than a decade ago at the Hawai‘i Conservation Conference, Stephen Miller of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service office in Honolulu expressed his concern about the pace at which nighttime temperatures at high elevations were rising: … Continued