[Coral-List] Addendum for Hawaii
Charles Birkeland
charlesb at hawaii.edu
Sun May 2 11:09:47 EDT 2004
Colleagues,
This is an addendum to the previous message. Although a legislative
bill to promote community-based management in Hawaii was shelved
recently by the government without explanation, there is an
undercurrent of pride of the Hawaiians for their traditional
management. In the Proceedings of the 9th International Coral Reef
Symposium, Bali, Friedlander et al. describe the community-based
traditional management system in an isolated place on Moloka’i. The
marine resources there are managed by the local community so well that
the stocks exploited for subsistence are not significantly different
in size from the stocks in no-take reserves. Also, the island of
Kahoolawe was used by the military for bombing practice for decades.
When it recently was returned to Hawaii, the state government
established that it be used only by native Hawaiians and the marine
resources could be used only for traditional purposes such as
subsistence.
Chuck
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