The Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission absolutely had to achieve one thing at its eighth annual meeting. That was to adopt a new conservation measure to address the serious overfishing of bigeye tuna occurring in waters under the commission’s … Continued
Carmel Finley. All the Fish in the Sea: Maximum Sustainable Yield and the Failure of Fisheries Management. University of Chicago Press, 2011. 224 pages. Cloth: $35.00. “MSY: A quantity that has been shown by biologists not to exist, and by … Continued
Sandalwood at CITES? The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is considering whether to submit a proposal to add all varieties of Hawaiian sandalwood to the CITES Appendix II list, which includes species that may not now be threatened with extinction … Continued
The 50 or so member states and participating non-members of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission can agree on very little. Yet when the commission’s chaotic eighth meeting concluded after five long and raucous days of plenary sessions, with … Continued
Limu Stewards Oppose Plan to Alter Sand Berm in `Ewa Limu gatherers are once again challenging drainage improvements proposed for the mouth of Kaloi Gulch in `Ewa, O`ahu. But this time, they aren’t just up against Haseko (`Ewa), Inc. The … Continued
Immediately above the land that Hawaiian Legacy Hardwoods is proposing for its koa plantation, just across rutted Mana Road, lies a 4,469-acre tract. At its lower elevations (starting at 5,200 feet), the landscape bears the scars inflicted by more than … Continued
Off With Their Heads! The owner of the catamaran Queen’s Treasure is not giving up plying the waters off Ka`anapali without a fight. On Valentine’s Day, two weeks after a federal judge denied its motion for a temporary injunction preventing … Continued
It sounds almost too good to be true. A private company, Hawaiian Legacy Hardwoods, LLC, has plans to restore native koa forests to thousands of acres of Big Island land, grazed and logged to a nub over the last century … Continued
In the years since he purchased Kuka`iau Ranch, owner David S. DeLuz Sr. has received hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal funds to support his cattle operation. According to the Environmental Working Group, which tracks subsidies made by the … Continued
When it comes to the prospects of growing high-value koa in plantations, Hawaiian Legacy Hardwoods CEO Jeffrey Dunster and University of Hawai`i forester J.B. Friday do not see eye to eye. They disagree over the yields of marketable koa that … Continued