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Pacific Fisheries Coalition represents a unique collaboration between conservationists and fishermen to promote the protection and responsible use of marine resources through education and advocacy in Hawai`i and the Pacific. A joint project of the Hawaii Audubon Society and the Hawai`i Fishermen's Foundation, PFC has received major support from the PEW Charitable Trusts, the Harold K. L. Castle Foundation, and the Marisla Foundation.
INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN SHARK FINS, & ILLEGAL, UNREPORTED, AND UNREGULATED SHARK FISHING BY LINDA PAUL
The unsustainable international trade in sharks, fins, parts, and derivatives, and the illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing of sharks for the fin trade poses a global threat to wild populations of sharks and rays and to their associated ecosystems...
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Hawai`i Aquatics Conference - January 10-11, 2009
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Hawai`i Audubon Society The Hawai`i Aquatics Conferences arose from the realization that aquatics research, management, education, and policy planning consist of many individual and generally uncoordinated efforts by people who rarely interact with one another. Holding a state-wide meeting every two years would provide a regular forum for managers, fishermen, educators, conservationists, policy makers and the general public to share information and ideas on better ways to manage integrated aquatic systems (streams and riparian areas, wetlands, estuaries, lagoons, coral reefs, and nearshore waters) and to explore various resource management approaches.
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IN THE PRESS Fishing vessel owner admits error in casting in northwest preserve (June 24, 2009) The owner of a fishing vessel whose crew was caught fishing in a special preservation area within the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands on June 15 regrets the incident and promises never to let it happen again... National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Special Agent Bill Pickering explained that there are two areas in the monument for bottomfishing, and that within those areas there are special preservation areas... (read article, Star Bulletin)
Suit filed over accidental ensnaring of rare whales (March 19, 2009) Environmental groups have sued the federal government for allegedly failing to prevent longline fishing fleets from accidentally snagging a rare whale species off Hawai'i... The complaint, citing 2007 federal data, alleges longline fishing vessels are accidentally ensnaring false killer whales off Hawai'i at twice the rate the species' population can sustain... (read article, Honolulu Advertiser)
Increased federal funding planned for endangered Hawaiian monk seal (March 02, 2009) In response to conservation efforts for America's most endangered marine mammal, Hawai`i is expected to receive some $5.7 million for fiscal year 2009 to support the NOAA Hawaiian Monk Seal Recovery Plan... (read article, The Garden Island.com)
Northwestern Hawaiian isles might get U.N. designation (January 07, 2009) The Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands could become the second United Nations World Heritage site in Hawaii, joining Hawaii Volcanoes National Park... (read article, Honolulu Star-Bulletin)
Hawaii will have role in managing Pacific's newest monuments (January 07, 2009) Yesterday, President Bush declared the Mariana Trench, Pacific Remote Islands and Rose Atoll as marine national monuments whose combined areas covers more than 195,000 square miles of ocean. The Remote Islands monument includes Palmyra Atoll, which is owned and co-managed by The Nature Conservancy's Hawai'i chapter. All three monument areas also fall under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, whose Hawai'i office will create management plans for them over the next two years... (read article, Honolulu Advertiser)
Bush to Protect Vast New Pacific Tracts (January 06, 2009) President Bush will designate vast tracts of American-controlled Pacific Ocean islands, reefs, surface waters and sea floor as marine national monuments on Tuesday, limiting fishing, mining, oil exploration or other commercial activity, White House officials said Monday. The protected zones, including parts of the deep Mariana Trench and a string of largely uninhabited reefs and atolls near the Equator and American Samoa, include a total of 195,280 square miles, an area larger than the states of Washington and Oregon combined... The president's action, which requires no Congressional or other approval, builds on the designation two years ago of the 139,000-square-mile Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument in the northwest Hawaiian Islands under the federal Antiquities Act... (read article, New York Times)
Editorial - Mr. Bush's Monument (January 06, 2009) The protected waters encircle the Northern Mariana Islands (including the Mariana Trench, the deepest canyon on Earth) and parts of a sprawling collection of reefs and atolls known as the Line Islands. They are a dazzling world of undersea volcanoes, pristine reefs, endangered seals, turtles and whales and intact food chains ruled by sharks. In protecting nearly 200,000 square miles of ocean, an area far bigger than California, Mr. Bush has outdone his decision in 2006 to set aside 140,000 square miles in the Northwest Hawaiian Islands. That created a single monument larger than all the country's national parks combined. If you judge the actions of presidential conservationists solely by the sheer size of planetary surface they protected during their time in office, Mr. Bush would outdo even Thomas Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt. This record, though, has enormous asterisks: (read editorial, New York Times)
* WHITE PAPER* - Marine Reserve Initiatives in Hawaii 1999-2007 Legislative History of Marine Protected Areas, right-to-fish fight (2007) We are running out of fish, at least wild-caught fish. Such headlines, and the need for "sustainable" fishing, continue to show up in the media. But is "sustainable" fishing even possible? Thirty years ago fisheries managers were taught that "surplus" production could be safely harvested and that all they needed to do was determine what the surplus was. Now we are coming to the realization that surplus production is probably a myth....(HTML)
Northwestern Hawaiian Islands proclaimed a National Monument! Visit the NWHI Network.
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The Hawai`i Fishermen's Foundation was established in 1991 to foster a better working relationship among all ocean users and support sound fisheries management. The Hawai`i Audubon Society, founded in 1939, strives to foster community values that result in protection and restoration of native ecosystem and conservation of natural resources through education, science, and advocacy in Hawai`i and the Pacific. side photo by Commander John Bortniak, NOAA Corps (ret.)
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