Feeding – or, more precisely, watering – this Japanese fad has pushed “unsweetened water” to the top of Hawai`i’s list of export commodities. Greg Barbour of the Foreign Trade Zone Division of the state’s Department of Business, Economic Development, and … Continued
They were, they said, “extremely concerned with what is happening at NELHA relative to its business model… When most aquaculture tenants located here, the business model pursued by the state was to provide an affordable resource, seawater, to ‘develop and … Continued
• “… the triangular island’s southern half…” (p. 3). Was Walters really on the Big Island at all? In what geometric system is it triangular? (A Big Island map does appear as an illustration on page 9 of the book, … Continued
The work is freighted with embarrassingly overwrought prose (“unfurling fronds of fern … green vessels of vegetal life”), sappy reflections (“What unexpected twists and turns of endangered species conservation this journey has taken, I later muse. A library in Philadelphia, … Continued
“A great deal of effort and funds have been directed toward protection and preservation of the NWHI, but the focus has largely been on direct human impacts (e.g., disturbance, hunting, fishing, introduced species). The effectiveness of these measures could be … Continued
Up to 10 Galapagos Sharks May Be Culled To Protect Seal Pups at Northwestern Shoals Galapagos sharks began preying on still-nursing monk seal pups at French Frigate Shoals only within the last decade, according to monk seal expert George “Bud” … Continued