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 28, 2015 | CORAL - Ret Talbot, Marine, News & Notes
With just a few days left to introduce new bills for consideration in the 2015 Hawaii Legislature, those on both sides of the aquarium fishery debate are getting a sense of what this legislative session will look like. There are currently six aquarium fishery-related...
by CORAL Magazine | Mar 25, 2014 | Marine, News & Notes
The latest news from Rising Tide Conservation and Hawaii’s Oceanic Institute (OI) provides an update from Chad Callan, with larval Yellow Tangs now well into uncharted territory. The team at OI has gone far beyond the past progress of Syd Kraul, who managed 40...
by CORAL Magazine | Feb 24, 2014 | Marine, News & Notes
Researchers in Hawaii, in conjunction with the now well-known Rising Tide Conservation project, are getting very close to the first captive-bred Yellow Tang, Zebrasoma flavescens, but only after revisiting work that started over a decade prior. Originally published in...
