by Ret Talbot | Jan 28, 2016 | CORAL - Ret Talbot, Marine, News & Notes
“What happens in Hawaii may not stay in Hawaii….” —Observer of anti-aquarium politics in the 50th State Editor: For an aquarium fish collector, the annual start of the Legislative session in the Hawaiian Islands must seem akin to the opening of hunting...
by CORAL Magazine | Oct 30, 2015 | Marine, News & Notes
With the aquarium world still buzzing over the October 20th announcement of the world-first success in the captive culture of Zebrasoma flavescens, researchers at the Oceanic Institute of Hawaii Pacific University tell CORAL that their historic class of juveniles are...
by Ret Talbot | Feb 25, 2015 | CORAL - Ret Talbot, Marine
HONOLULU Hearings for two Hawaii aquarium fishery-related bills are scheduled for Friday, February 26th, in the House Committee on the Judiciary. The two bills are House Bill 483 (HB 483), which authorizes administrative inspections within the West Hawaii Regional...
by Ret Talbot | Feb 24, 2015 | CORAL - Ret Talbot, Marine, News & Notes
Special to CORAL Magazine Commercial fisherman Jay Lovell pled no contest last week to charges brought against him based on the most public altercation between aquarium fishers and anti-aquarium trade activists in years in Hawaii’s contentious aquarium fishery. The...
by Ret Talbot | Feb 16, 2015 | CORAL - Ret Talbot, Marine, News & Notes
On Tuesday, February 17th, 2015, the Hawaii County Council’s Committee on Agriculture, Water and Energy Sustainability will consider two aquarium fishery related bills: Bills 24 and 318. Aquarium trade experts say the passage of either of these bills could...
