#community-based subsistence fishing area

On March 25, Kīpahulu celebrates the one-year anniversary of the Community-Based Subsistence Fishing Area rules going into effect for the Kīpahulu moku. Over the last year, the community established a Kīpahulu Makai Watch program, and new signage displaying the CBSFA rules has recently been erected at prominent spots in the area.

Today, after nearly 30 years of grassroots community planning and engagement within their moku and across Maui and the state, Hawaiʻi nonprofit organization Kīpahulu ‘Ohana, Inc. saw their Community-Based Subsistence Fishing Area (CBSFA) signed into law.

The Nā Manu ʻElele Steward Program, a collaboration between Kupu, Hawaiʻi’s largest youth-focused conservation and sustainability nonprofit; the US Economic Development Administration; and the Hawaiʻi Department of Land and Natural Resources aims to inform and connect the people at wahi pana (legendary places, and living, breathing spaces).

Miloli‘i Community-Based Subsistence Fishing Area will protect and conserve fish populations and their habitats, by combining traditional Hawaiian fishing practices with modern approaches to conservation. 

World Oceans Day in Hawai’i coincided this year with real progress on practical steps by two rural Native Hawaiian subsistence fishing communities to ensure fishery abundance for future generations.