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Loss Of Mainland Market For Marlin Is One More Sign Dan Inouye Is Gone
For six years, Hawaii and other Pacific islands enjoyed an exemption that allowed them to sell billfish on the mainland. Congress and President Trump just revoked it.
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Chairman’s Death Comes At Crucial Time For Pacific Fishery Council
Edwin Ebisui was among the leaders pushing the Trump administration to reopen restricted waters to commercial fishing.
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This Massive Boom Aims To Snag Pacific Ocean’s Plastic Trash
The collection system created by a Dutch innovator is headed to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
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Holy Mackerel, With No Tourists In Sight The Fish Are Returning To Kauai’s North Shore
Local fishermen say the impact of the April storm on tourism has been a boon to the fish population.
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Dolphin-Whale Hybrid Spotted Off Coast Of Kauai
It’s Hawaii’s first confirmed cross between a melon-headed whale and a rough-toothed dolphin.
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VIDEO: Hey It’s Shark Week — And Here’s The Shark’s View Of Things
We are a much bigger menace to sharks than they are to us.
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Hawaii Governor Starts The Clock On Sunscreen Ban
David Ige signs a bill that prohibits the sale of sunscreen containing oxybenzone and octinoxate in the islands, beginning in 2021.
Anthony Quintano/Civil Beat
3 More Monk Seals Die From Disease Linked To Feral Cats
Scientists urge the public to stop feeding free-roaming cats, which are the only animals that can transmit the parasitic disease.
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Hawaii Swordfish Industry Shut Down To Protect Endangered Turtles
Updated. Environmental groups have been trying to restrict the taking of turtles by longliners for the past six years.
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Hawaii Seems Poised To Ban Coral-Damaging Sunscreen
鲍辫诲补迟别诲:听It would be the first state to prohibit the use of sunscreen containing ingredients that scientists say harm sea life.