Land Board Imposes Fine, Revokes Permit for Illegal Longlining in Territorial Waters The punishment of commercial fisherman Konane Zager continued last month with the state Board of Land and Natural Resources voting on January 9 to fine him $10,051.90 and … Continued
Water Commission Nominees: After months of controversy, Hinano Rodrigues has withdrawn his nomination to fill the loea seat on the Commission on Water Resource Management from consideration by the state Senate. The loea seat must have “substantial experience or expertise … Continued
East Maui Appeals: On January 9, the Sierra Club of Hawaiʻi filed a notice of appeal to the Environmental Circuit Court of the state Board of Land and Natural Resources’ December 13, 2024, decisions to grant a revocable permit to … Continued
For nearly three decades, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has conducted or supported regular hauls of marine debris from the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Most of it is made up of derelict fishing gear, and most of that is non-biodegradable … Continued
After More Than A Decade of Fighting, Kahala Resort Abandons Chair Presetting “I am pleased to see that Resorttrust Hawaii, LLC has finally thrown in the towel (into the towel caddy placed on its own land),” wrote David Kimo Frankel … Continued
Last month’s meeting of the Western Pacific Fishery Management Council, an agency of the federal government that has no other source of funds than the U.S. taxpayer, began this way: William Sword, a council member from American Samoa and chair … Continued
Scientists at the National Marine Fisheries Service have documented a rise in the number of pelagic false killer whales that are killed or seriously injured as a result of interactions with the Hawaiʻi-based longline fishing fleet. While the separate population … Continued
The Hawaiʻi-based longline fishing fleet has chafed for years under a management plan that limits the number of animals belonging to the Hawaiʻi pelagic population of false killer whales that the fleet can seriously injure or kill in the normal … Continued
FKW Trigger Lowered: The National Marine Fisheries Service has reduced the level of observer coverage in the deep-set longline fishery of Hawaiʻi. And as the level of observer coverage is lowered, so, too, is the number of false killer whales … Continued
Tori Lines and Tuna Fish: On October 16, the National Marine Fisheries Service proposed a rule requiring almost all Hawaiʻi-based longline vessels targeting tuna in the Pacific Ocean north of 23 degrees N latitude to use tori streamers to scare … Continued