Aquarium Bill Hearing

Sick Tang with fins rotted off
Sick Tang in Aquarium with its fins rotted off

Senate Bill 580 to protect Hawaii’s reef wildlife from the aquarium trade is now scheduled for a Tuesday hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee, chaired by Sen. Clayton Hee:  See bill here.

Senate Water & Land Committee revised SB 580 so that the bill gives Maui 2 more marine protected areas. That committee has no Maui members, and the 2 areas were not specified and could be subjected to DLNR scoping–for many years to come.

The hearing is Tuesday, Mar. 1, and testimony is due by Monday at 10:00 AM.

Although we were badly outnumbered by aquarium collectors and wholesalers at the