by CORAL Magazine | May 2, 2018 | Marine, News & Notes
via NOAA This is a question that has eluded fishers and managers alike. In an attempt to find some answers, we teamed up with coral reef fish specialists from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and Conservation International to pull together all of the data that we...
by CORAL Magazine | Apr 20, 2018 | Marine, News & Notes
CORAL Staff Report “Now kids can’t catch fish for their aquariums….” Writing from his home in Honolulu, this was how Dr. Bruce Carlson, marine biologist and former director of the Waikiki Aquarium, first reacted to news that a court in...
by CORAL Magazine | Apr 13, 2018 | Marine, News & Notes
Dr. Bruce Carlson, former Director, Waikiki Aquarium (1990 – 2002), retired Chief Science Officer at the Georgia Aquarium (2002-2011), reflects on the shifting tactics of those opposed to Hawaii’s Aquarium Fishery and the actual, true nature of fishing in...
by CORAL Magazine | Apr 13, 2018 | Marine, News & Notes
special commentary by Robert Likins, Vice President of Governmental Affairs, PIJAC, via Pet Product News & PIJAC Since October 2017, Hawaii aquarium fishing industry permits have been suspended due to a ruling by the Hawaii Supreme Court that such permits require...
by CORAL Magazine | Apr 13, 2018 | Marine, News & Notes
via The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) Coalition Urges State to Require Proper Study, Continue Moratorium Earthjustice, Conservation Council for Hawai‘i, Center for Biological Diversity Hawai‘i has released flawed environmental assessments (EAs) prepared...
