Editorial
A Sea Change Is Needed in Fisheries Management What makes a good fisherman? Used to be, it was skill in finding fish. The more a fisherman brought in, the greater his or her perceived skill. It is time to rethink … Continued
After Eight Years, NMFS Finds Longliners Jeopardize Sea Turtles
The 114 or so vessels in the Honolulu-based longline fishing fleet have been grounded by a court-imposed closure. And if the March 15 closure, set to last 45 days, wasn’t enough bad news, on its eve came a development that … Continued
Cat's Chronicles
Dry Wai`anae Explores Its Wet History Ordinary citizens flush up to six gallons of valuable drinking water down their toilets with each use and soak their hungry lawns with dozens more, oblivious to the mounting crises that such waste poses … Continued
Board Talk
Former Board Member’s Testimony Throws HELCO Case Into Turmoil The decade-long efforts of HELCO, the Big Island electrical utility, to expand its Keahole generating facility are more and more taking on the traits of a soap opera. People who have … Continued
Cat's Chronicles
Curbside Recycling Makes a Comeback in Kailua It’s 8 o’clock on a sunny Wednesday morning in Kailua, and I’m sitting on a bench outside Kalapawai Market – a historic green-and-white, Mom-‘n’-Pop store fronting the beach park. Half of Kailua congregates … Continued
Waiahole Parties Contest Transfer Of Campbell Permit to City BWS
The tug of war over water on O`ahu continues. The transfer last November of an `Ewa water well permit from Campbell Estate to the Board of Water Supply (BWS) has raised arguments by windward farmers and activists that the estate … Continued
Island Watch
Hunters Are Shot Down in Appeal Of Federal Court’s Palila Decision For the last two years, a group of sheep hunters on the Big Island have been working to overturn a federal court’s order requiring the state of Hawai`i to … Continued
Back to the Roots: Taro Revivalists Find Poi Is Soul Food – and Nutritious, To Boot
Across the islands, the cultivation of taro is experiencing a resurgence that addresses far more than the material needs of those who plant or process the crop. You won’t find the numbers reflected in state agricultural statistics. Many of the … Continued
Editorial: Alternative Energy: The Moral Imperative for Hawai`i
In recent weeks, floods in Europe, dead or dying corals in the Indian Ocean, rising temperatures and melting ice packs have all been laid at the door of manmade changes in Earth’s atmosphere, brought about largely as a result of … Continued