#Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument
The Marine Institute at Maui Ocean Center educator headed to deep sea aboard research vessel Nautilus
A educator for the Marine Institute at Maui Ocean Center has been selected for a prestigious fellowship that will send her to one of the Pacific Ocean’s most remote stretches this fall.
Final action taken on commercial fishing access in Pacific Marine National Monuments
After a full discussion and hearing approximately 70 written and oral public comments at its recent meeting, the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council took final action to restore commercial fishing in parts of the Pacific Islands Heritage, Rose Atoll, Marianas Trench and Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monuments.
Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council to consider restoring fishing in Pacific Marine Monuments
The Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council will deliberate on two major actions at its 206th meeting next week allowing US fishermen to fish in US Pacific marine national monuments.
Commercial fishing halted in Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument upon US District Court ruling
The ruling nullifies a National Marine Fisheries Service letter sent April 25 that gave commercial fishers a green light to fish in the national monument south and southwest of Hawai’i following an executive order by President Donald Trump.
Case commends Biden’s formal recognition of Hui Panalāʻau
In his Jan. 2, 2025 Proclamation, President Biden formally recognized and extended the nation’s appreciation for the service of some 135 mainly Native Hawaiian men, many students or graduates of the then-Kamehameha Schools for Boys, who between 1935 to 1942 were sent by the US government to live and work on the remote uninhabited equatorial Pacific islands of Howland, Baker, Jarvis, Enderbury and Canton near the equator.