Weeks before the state Board of Land and Natural Resources approved a revised, stricter set of lay gill-netting rules late last year, an endangered monk seal pup was found dead, wrapped in a gill net, on a beach in Waimanalo, … Continued
1976: Kaua`i, death by entanglement in gill net 1986: Necker, death by entanglement in a bridle rope of a lobster trap 1994: O`ahu’s west shore, death by entanglement in illegally set commercial gill net 1995: Kaua`i, ingestion of a recreational … Continued
The June 2006 presidential order establishing the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (NWHI) Marine National Monument gives the eight remaining federally permitted bottomfishers four more years to fish there before all commercial fishing within the monument is prohibited. Before the monument was … Continued
According to the House committee report that details what Congress intended for the 2003 appropriation of $100 million for fisheries relief (including $5 million for Hawai`i), no more than five percent was to be used for administrative expenses and “no … Continued
For years, both the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands and the Department of Land and Natural Resources have wanted to develop their lands at Kealakehe and Honokohau. Except for uses surrounding the Honokohau Small Boat Harbor, the area — a … Continued
With this edition, Environment Hawai`i marks the publication of its 200th issue. When the newsletter began, in July 1990, I had no inkling that the enterprise would last as long as it has. Frankly, I’m blown away at the thought … Continued
Late last year, as it became clear that the Hawai`i County Council would not be re-designating or rezoning Kealakehe-Honokohau as a resort area any time soon, Jacoby Development Inc. (JDI) decided to back away from the R-word. JDI documents all … Continued
As part of its Kona Kai Ola project, Jacoby Development Inc. proposes incorporating a nine-acre marine wildlife park at the center of a lagoon system to be constructed on lands owned by the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands. According to … Continued
“HECO plant switch to biofuels a good move.” That headline appeared over an editorial in the <iHonolulu Advertiser on December 15, a few days after Hawaiian Electric, the utility serving O`ahu, came to an agreement with the state consumer advocate … Continued
Tad Patzek, a professor of engineering at the University of California at Berkeley, is one of a handful of biofuel skeptics with the scientific chops required to take on the new orthodoxy that biofuels are environmentally more benign than fossil … Continued