DLNR Defends Executive Sessions Protecting private individuals from embarrassment is a valid reason for the Board of Land and Natural Resources to meet in private. That’s according to Linda Chow, a deputy attorney general assigned to the Department of Land … Continued
Land Board groupies – and we’re guessing there may be five or six of you – may have noticed changes in how the board handles contested cases over the last three or so years. This quasi-judicial administrative process is initiated … Continued
Unlike Hawai’i’s terrestrial researchers and resource managers, who meet every summer to catch up on the latest science at the Hawai’i Conservation Alliance’s conference, marine researchers working in Hawai’i rarely gather en masse. But recently, two meetings focusing heavily on … Continued
While much of the debate over the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands’ management scenarios has been between federal agencies competing for jurisdiction, waters governed by the state of Hawai’i contain more than a third of the archipelago’s coral reefs. But just what … Continued
If you shut down a fishery when no boats are on the water anyway, is there any real conservation benefit to the closure? That’s the question that arises after reading the final rule published by the National Marine Fisheries Service … Continued
Last month, the National Marine Fisher-ies Service published a final rule limiting catches of bigeye tuna in the eastern Pacific (east of 150* West meridian). The rule, intended to address diminishing stocks of this fish in the Eastern Tropical Pacific, … Continued
It smacks a lot more of ‘egosystem’ than ecosystem management,” Rob Shal-lenberger says of the jurisdictional fights that have plagued the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands over the years. Shallenberger, retired from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and now working with … Continued