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DOBOR Audit: Vessel Owners Escape Liability for Groundings, Salvage Operations
Early on the afternoon of November 9, 2022, a 77-foot-long former minesweeper berthed for two years at the Ala Moana small boat harbor began taking on water through a six-inch hole in its hull. No one was on board the … Continued
New & Noteworthy: Dolphin Disease, Tsuji Suit Response, Rudo Sentencing
Cats’ Role in Dolphin Deaths: Robin Baird of the Cascadia Research Institute has published a brief report on the relationship between cat populations and the deaths of cetaceans, including false killer whales and dolphins, that inhabit the ocean around Hawaiʻi....
Department of Agriculture’s Slow Roll-out Of Kona CRB Rule Is Faulted at Meeting
The first time the presence of coconut rhinoceros beetles on the island of Hawaiʻi was detected occurred in October 2023. In the stump of a decaying palm tree, residents of Waikoloa found six suspicious larvae, which the Department of Agriculture...
DAB’s Recent Contracts for Biosecurity
June, the last month of the state’s fiscal year, is probably the busiest month of the year for contracting as state agencies rush to encumber funds rather than face the prospect of seeing them lapse back into the general fund....
Board Talk: Maunawili Acquisition, ‘Opihi Poaching in Ka‘ūpūlehu
Above map credit: Trust for Public Land We had a chance to buy it in 1983 for $6 million. … We got a second bite at the apple. We gotta do this,” David Smith said last month of a proposal...