The Dark Hobby Film Screening will happen at Maui Arts and Cultural Center on Saturday, June 30th. The Dark Hobby is a documentary film that uncovers three hubs of aquarium extraction from Indonesia, the Philippines and Hawai‘i. With aquarium collectors still working Hawai‘i reefs in violation of a Hawai‘i Supreme Court ruling, the film presents […]
Snorkel Bob
2017 MauiTime Year In Review
It’s been a helluva year, and that’s not a good thing. For the United States, the watchwords for 2017 have been violence and hatred–against women, African-Americans, immigrants, LGBTQ individuals and basically everyone who isn’t a straight white male. You don’t have to be a master at reading the room to know that greed and ignorance […]
Hawaii Supreme Court slaps DLNR on commercial aquarium fishing permits
For a while now the state’s commercial aquarium fishing trade has been looking pretty solid. Sure, earlier this year both houses of the Hawaii Legislature passed SB 1240, which would have gradually phased out new aquarium collecting permits, but Governor David Ige, following the strong recommendation from the state Department of Land and Natural Resources […]