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The Net Kit (fishing net identification)

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Maritime History of the Hawaii Islands

Historical perspective, social, economic

  • Isolation & Endemism
  • The Pacific rim-other seagoing peoples

                        Accidental discoverers?

  • Earliest Hawaii residents

Polynesian seagoing tradition/readiness to colonize new lands

  • Continuing links to South Pacific after Hawaii settlement

Fisheries, farming highly developed by late 1700’s western contact
         Hawaiian farming/fisheries management tradition-ahupua’a ,konohiki, and aumakua

  • Western Impact

Fur trade, arms race, cattle, sandalwood, whaling, sugar

            Schooners to Steam

            Barges and aircraft

  • Western style fisheries in Hawaii

                        “Commercial” fishing “in Hawaii circa 1900

  • Fishery management-Hawaii island

                        Territorial Hawaii-early regulation/Konohiki rights

                        Statehood-Ocean jurisdiction; Federal & State

FMA’s & MLCD’s

FAD’s  and Fishing Island(Kona)

Bottomfish Plan

                        Act 306-West Hawaii Fishery Management Area

                        West Hawaii Fishery Council/community-based management

                                    Local Resource Councils

                        FRA’s, resource pressure, gillnetting, spearfishing

The near future-floating fish farms, science experiments, and resource survival challenges

 

SLIDES

Slide

Keyword(s)

Concept(s)

01.HI archipelago fr. Space

Isolation, endemism

Human discovery challenge

02.Pac.Ocean&Rim

Vast space

Western voyagers-expansion

03.Voyaging canoe/storm

Colonization

Reasons for leaving?

04.N.Pac.current chart

Oceanic highway

Human interconnection

05.Hyoryumin

Japanese drifters

Early visitors?

06.Pohue petroglyph

Foreign ship rig

Early visitors?

07.Crab claw sail

Hawaiian rig

Chronology in rock

08.Ship petroglyph

Schooner/interisland rig

Schooner Fair American? 

09.Galleon & junk

Manila/Spanish/Chinese

Pac.-wide trade

10.Mauka taro field

Early Haw’n. agriculture

Colonists brought expertise

11.Waipio Valley-fields

Ahupua’a

Mauka-Makai development

12.Koloko fishpond

Aquaculture

Most developed in Pacific

13.Ai-opio fishpond

Aquaculture

Sophisticated engineering

14.Haw’n. Isles

Tradewinds

Dominant winds-travel

15.E-W Waimea plain

Wet-Dry

Water+Land=population

16.Haw’n. dancers

Aina

Haw’n. environment /life

17.Haw’n. warriors

Politics/competition

Ali’i/Warfare/1700’s

18.Canoe-Kawaihae

Fishery unit

Traditional methods

19.Tiger shark

Niuhi-Ali’i only)

Management/kapus

20.Black tip reef  shark

Amuakua

Haw’n. view of world

21.Pu’u-kolola Heiau

1791 Kamehameha

Whale connection

22.Ahupua’a N.Hi map

Stokes study

Land management system

23.Schooner/double canoe

Technology exchange

Fur trade/arms race

24.Cattle/Kawaihae

1801-2/cattle&horses

Early environmental impact

25.1819 Kawaihae chart

Sandalwood

Economic impact

26.1819 Kwhe sketch

Firearms

Liholiho/unrest

27.Sandalwood

Commercial focus

Missionaries/whaling

28.1822 Kawaihae sketch

Schooner/canoes

Trade/Whaling dominant

29.Clipper ship

Rapid travel/Steamships

HI&California Gold rush

30.1860 Puako

Haw’n population decline

1859 oil/Civil War

31.Waimea-Purdy home

Large scale cattle/sugar

Maritime transport growth

32.Kahauloa cove

Plank canoes late 1800’s

“Commercial” fishery

33.Hi/WHi-maps

Landings

Exclusive transport-by sea

34.Kehena landing

Watermen

Subsistence vs. Commerce

35.Steamer Maui

cargo/passenger

Interisland communication

36.1932 Mahukona

All-weather work

Depression

37.Schooner Muriel

Cargo wireway

More mainland technology

38.Kawaihae Harbor

New harbors

Post WWII expansion

39.Akule fishing

“Family/Commercial”

Kuleana/Konohiki

40.Aku fishing

Pole & Line

Changing methods

41.Iwa

Distant fisheries

WX buoys/GPS

42.YB Barge

WHi growth

Interisland lifeline

43.Matson barge

Containerization

Worldwide modular system

44.Hyatt Hotel

Worldwide tourism

Local impacts

45.Infrared-Honokohau

Mauka-Makai interface

nursery grounds

46. Honokohau-fishers

Recreation/Resource

Akule=250Klb/yr catch

47.Akule

Traditional fishery

Surround/commercial

48.Ho’kele

Marine tourism

Preserves

49.Kahalu’u

Marine tourism

Local/visitor mix

50.Ka’awaloa kayakers

Marine Tourism

Congestion/cultural conflict

51.Charter fishing

Marine Tourism

Sustainability/Catch& release

52.Paku’iku’i

Aquarium trade

Export fishery/conflict

53.SCUBA diver

Marine fishing/recreation

Commercial/recreation

54Ahuena Heiau

Traditional&Today

Compromise=The Challenge



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