These families of reef fish are more than ecologically ... Palani was a popular food item and one of several fish species raised in Hawaiian fishponds, or loko i’a. Its close relative, the ...

For decades commercial aquarium collectors in Hawaii routinely extracted hundreds of thousands of endemic and indigenous Hawaiian reef fish and invertebrates a year ... to the protection of endangered ...

On April 17 the White House shared a proclamation opening the waters around the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National ...

Reef fish are also in decline ... yellow tang retail for anywhere from $15 to $40 per fish. Less common species sell for more. A Hawaiian dragon moray eel, for example, can fetch up to $600.

The single greatest threat to the diversity of life in our oceans over the past 50 years, more than climate change or plastic ...

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s study of Hawaii’s deep-sea coral reefs, 43 percent of the documented fish species were endemic, far greater than the 17 ...

and providing a safe environment for many fish and other aquatic species. Approximately one-fourth of the plants, fish and invertebrates found in Hawaiian coral reefs are endemic to Hawai‘i. Coral ...