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The Waikiki Aquarium’s turns 120 years old on Tuesday, and it’s hosting a special celebration to mark the occasion.
"Hawaii is a major supplier of saltwater fish for the national and international aquarium market," said Bruce Carlson, a marine biologist and director of the Waikiki Aquarium in Honolulu.
The aquarium has a small exhibit of invasives in its foyer area, with plans for an upcoming, new educational exhibit featuring invasive corals, anemones and fishes in Hawaii, in the next six months.
Big Island environmental groups hope to end the commercial aquarium fishing industry in Hawaii once and for all next month. The petition, which originally was scheduled to be heard at a BLNR ...
HONOLULU — The waters off Hawaii’s largest island are home to a half-million brightly colored tropical fish that are scooped up into nets each year and flown across the globe into aquariums ...
HONOLULU (KHON2) — Aquarium dumping is one way non-native and invasive species enter Hawaiiʻs waters and a new campaign is aimed at educating the public about the issue and preventing the ...
State officials Monday launched a new campaign to prevent the illegal dumping and spread of non-native marine aquarium species in Hawaii waters.
Conflict over the aquarium fish industry shot into the limelight last month when Sea Shepherd activists wearing cameras approached two fish collectors working underwater in West Hawaii.
State officials Monday launched a new campaign to prevent the illegal dumping and spread of non-native marine aquarium species in Hawaii waters. The weeklong “Don’t Let It Loose” campaign ...
West Hawaii's aquarium fish collecting rules date to the late 1990s, when the state Legislature, responding to concerns about declining fish stocks, banned fish collecting along sections of the ...