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...
by CORAL Magazine | Feb 9, 2015 | Marine, News & Notes
via PIJAC [updated 11:30 AM CST] PIJAC AQUATICS COMMITTEE ALERT HAWAII HOUSE OCEANS COMMITTEE TO HEAR 4 BILLS INVOLVING THE HAWAIIAN ORNAMENTAL AQUARIUM INDUTSRY HEARING FEBRUARY 11, 2015 TESTIMONY DUE 5 PM FEBRUARY 10, 2015 The House Ocean, Marine Resources, &...
by Ret Talbot | Jan 31, 2015 | CORAL - Ret Talbot, Marine, News & Notes
Hawaiian legislature to consider 7 bills to change aquarium fishery—including 3 seeking an outright ban on marine livestock collection By Ret Talbot For decades now, the harvest of Hawaiian reef fishes for the global aquarium trade has fueled a heated, emotional...
by Ret Talbot | Jan 26, 2015 | CORAL - Ret Talbot, Marine, News & Notes
It is four days into the 2015 legislative session in Hawaii, and there are a total of six aquarium fishery-related bills that have either been introduced or are pending introduction in either the House of Representatives or the Senate. The most recent bill is House...
