by CORAL Magazine | Aug 21, 2024 | Marine, News & Notes
Juvenile Yellow Tang (Zebrasoma flavescens) on coral reef off Kona, the Big Island, Hawaii. Image credit: Peter Douglas/Shutterstock via Pet Advocacy Network This is a critical moment for the aquarium fishery in Hawaii! After years of work to satisfy the environmental...
by Matt Pedersen | Jul 16, 2021 | Marine
Reef Fish, $5/lb. Images from recent online ad posting. Hawaii’s small marine aquarium fishery has long been considered one of the most well-studied, well-managed ornamental marine fisheries on the planet. Anti-aquarium activists have attempted to legislate the...
by Matt Pedersen | Sep 18, 2020 | Marine, News & Notes
via materials released by the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources “At one time we thought we might be looking for missing or deceased divers. Who drops divers off a boat into the open ocean and then leaves in order to avoid detection?” Calling...
by CORAL Magazine | Apr 20, 2018 | Marine, News & Notes
CORAL Staff Report “Now kids can’t catch fish for their aquariums….” Writing from his home in Honolulu, this was how Dr. Bruce Carlson, marine biologist and former director of the Waikiki Aquarium, first reacted to news that a court in...
