A school of yellow tang swim off the coast of Hawaii island. They are often collected by the aquarium trade. The aquarium trade completed environmental assessments for two islands, but DLNR rejected ...

MAUI (HawaiiNewsNow) - The Maui Ocean Center is hosting a contest to seek help from the public in naming six baby sea turtles. The four-month-old sea turtles live at the Maui Ocean Center, The ...

HONOLULU - The waters off the 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 from ...

Maui resident Robert Wintner, a passionate opponent of the aquarium industry trade, isn’t placing any bets that forceful legislation on the more than million-dollar trade will pass muster by the state ...

(CN) - Hawaii is hurting its colorful fish and coral reefs by allowing commercial operations to take unlimited numbers of aquarium fish without environmental impact surveys, environmentalists claim in ...

An error has occurred. Please try again. With a The Portland Press Herald subscription, you can gift 5 articles each month. It looks like you do not have any active ...

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 meeting ...

Two state agencies, backed by environmental groups, are calling for a moratorium on the collection of aquarium fish — a proposal that is highlighting still-deep divisions over the harvesting of the ...

Yellow tangs are popular fish taken by aquarium collectors. Environmental groups and marine wildlife advocates applaud a court ruling this week emphasizing and clarifying that all commercial aquarium ...

MA’ALAEA, Maui — Visiting an aquarium just a few miles from some of Maui’s spectacular snorkeling and diving spots might seem like going to the Super Bowl but watching the game on a portable TV. After ...

HONOLULU (AP) — A Hawaii Supreme Court ruling on Wednesday halts the commercial scooping of reef fish for aquariums until the state reviews the trade’s environmental impact. Hawaii is the world’s ...

Wayne T. Newman and two others were caught on Feb. 20 with 550 live fish, which had an estimated worth of $37,000. Newman did not have a valid permit for possessing aquatic life for aquarium purposes.