by Ret Talbot | Jan 24, 2015 | CORAL - Ret Talbot, Marine, News & Notes
The third aquarium bill is, along with HB 511, pending introduction in the Hawaii Legislature, bringing the total number of aquarium-related bills in play for 2015 to three. House Bill 606 would establishes a 10-year moratorium on the taking of aquarium fishes. It...
by Ret Talbot | Jan 24, 2015 | CORAL - Ret Talbot, Marine, News & Notes
House Bill 511 will likely be the second aquarium fish bill introduced to the State of Hawaii’s 28th Legislature. The Bill, which will be introduced by Representatives Cindy Evans, Nicole Lowen, Mark Nakashima, Richard Onishi and Joy San Buenaventura, would prohibit...
by Ret Talbot | Jan 23, 2015 | CORAL - Ret Talbot, Marine, News & Notes
It is the beginning a new legislative year in the Hawaiian Islands and what has become an annual tradition of calling for a ban on aquarium livestock collection appears to be alive and well. At least one new move to end what is known here as the “AQ...
by Ret Talbot | Dec 18, 2013 | CORAL Excerpt, Marine
A new beginning for Hawaii’s Marine Aquarium Fishery on Kona by Ret Talbot Excerpt from CORAL Magazine, January/February 2014 After years of rumblings, annual temblors with threats of legislation, and constant prophesies of doom for Hawaiian aquarium fishers—as...
by CORAL Magazine | May 22, 2013 | Marine, News & Notes
Long-time foes Robert “Snorkle Bob” Wintner and Rene Umberger, both with ties to the dive and snorkle tourism trade in Hawaii, lead new effort to attack the aquarium trade Announcement from Sea Shepherd OPERATION REEF DEFENSE LAUNCHES IN HAWAII Sea...
