by Matt Pedersen | Apr 13, 2018 | Marine, News & Notes
Hawaii’s marine aquarium fishery has faced years of concerted and repeatedly-failed efforts by anti-aquarium activists to end the collection of fishes, mostly through legislative efforts. It seems that each year, the opposition got closer to finding success. The...
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...
by CORAL Magazine | Apr 12, 2018 | Freshwater, Marine, New Products
via LRS LRS (Larry’s Reef Services) is happy to announce that we are distributing an innovative product for customizing your aquarium or sump. Dexter’s Dividers allow you to place a perforated or solid divider in an aquarium so you can separate livestock,...
by CORAL Magazine | Mar 29, 2018 | Marine, News & Notes
#LittleClubBigImpact: An open letter on how teamwork is helping the aquarium trade survive in Hawaii an update from PIJAC’s Vice President of Government Affairs, Robert Likins Since early last year, Hawaii’s aquarium fishing trade has faced significant...
by CORAL Magazine | Mar 26, 2018 | Marine, News & Notes
Meet SoFi, the brainchild of scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who have unleashed the first free-swimming, soft-bodied robotic fish with a mission of studying elusive sealife dwelling beyond the limits of most human divers. During test dives in...