Hala Pepe Five plant forms were commonly used to decorate the kuahu altar, and in most halau hula these five were considered essential . . . Gods and demi-gods were represented by the five main plant forms on the altar. … Continued
CEATECH USA, Inc., owner of a shrimp farm in west Kaua`i, seemed to have it all – a new pond design, disease-free broodstock, a super-efficient waste system, millions in investments, and a large stretch of sunny, flat, land near the … Continued
State aquaculture loans recipients are three times more likely to default than agricultural loan recipients. For the most part, private lenders won’t touch them. According to Doreen Shishido, head of the state Department of Agriculture’s loan division, more than one … Continued
Earlier this year, masses of dead fish showed up on Kekaha’s popular surf beaches. It was not the first time and certainly not the last. When the area was still a sugar town, dead fish would turn up on the … Continued
May 23, Kaua`i War Memorial auditorium: The interrogation started at about a quarter to 7:00 that Thursday night, well before the panel had assembled on stage to help clear the haze surrounding the proposed designation of 99,200 acres of the … Continued
Jack Jeffrey, a biologist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge, is known to thousands of refuge visitors for his lucid, witty and empathetic descriptions of the unique flora and fauna of Hawai`i that are … Continued
I seek to travel to isolated places in the islands because I’ve found that these natural areas have unforeseen characteristics that make each place distinctive and even mythical. Before I flew to Moloka`i to kayak the northeastern coast with my … Continued
The proposed designation of nearly 100,000 acres as critical habitat on Kaua`i and Ni`ihau is just the first of several proposals that have been floated in Hawai`i by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in recent months. Here is a … Continued
Much of the speculation over the impacts of critical habitat designation, at least on Kaua`i, was supposed to have been answered by the draft economic analysis released to the public on May 28. The analysis, prepared for the Fish and … Continued
Tilapia Aren’t to Blame For High Nitrogen Level At Kaua`i Shrimp Pond I wish to respond to something reported in Teresa Dawson’s article in the June 2002 issue of Environment Hawai`i, “CEATECH Violates Discharge Permit, Blames Tilapia for High Nitrogen … Continued