Sierra Club Appeals BLNR Decision Over Four East Maui Stream Permits For now, the four permits granted in 2020 by the Board of Land and Natural Resources to Alexander & Baldwin and its East Maui irrigation Company so they could … Continued
Last year, the Office of the Inspector General for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released a scathing audit of the way in which the Western Pacific Fishery Regional Management Council (WPRFMC, or Wespac for short) had used monies from … Continued
“Council Offended by Removal of Last Vestiges of US Ocean Waters Open to Fishing.” That was the headline on a press release issued June 23 by the Western Pacific Fishery Management Council. Members of the panel, the presser stated, were … Continued
A week before Western Pacific Fishery Management Council members railed against a proposal to expand the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument, a member of the council’s Scientific and Statistical Committee (SSC) suggested that there was at least one aspect … Continued
Two recent judicial rulings have sent the Land Use Commission back to court. The first, a ruling on May 2 by 3rd Circuit Judge Wendy DeWeese, overturned a Hawaiʻi County law, supported by the LUC, that banned short-term vacation rentals … Continued
Remembering ‘Doc’ Maciolek: Dr. John A. Maciolek (1928-2021), a career biologist with the Fish and Wildlife Service and former zoology professor at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, died at his home last summer in Westlake, Oregon. At UH, Maciolek … Continued
On June 24, the Public Utilities Commission approved a new rate schedule sought by Launiupoko Irrigation Company (LIC) for the delivery of water to its 400-plus agricultural and residential customers. Instead of paying a flat rate of 76 cents per … Continued
Land Board Heeds Community’s Wishes In New Rules for Miloli‘i Fishing Area On June 9, seventeen years after the Legislature designated Miloli`i as a Community Based Subsistence Fishing Area (CBSFA), the state Board of Land and Natural Resources approved rules … Continued