This yellow tang is just one of the colorful and popular fish sought in Hawaii waters by commercial aquarium fish collectors. Luc Viatour photo The Maui Ocean Center hopes to have 20 percent of all ...

Ocean researchers at Hawaii Pacific University have achieved a major milestone. They were the first in the world to successfully breed and rear yellow tang, which is one of the world’s most popular ...

Oceanic Institute research technician Katie Hiew tends to a tank housing juvenile yellow tang being raised in captivity at the institute’s Waimanalo facility. Eventually, many will end up in hobbyist ...

Hawaii's connection to the ocean runs deep, and nowhere is that more evident than in the fish fry traditions that bring ...

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 ...

Some day, tanks at aquaculture farms around the state and nation could be teeming with millions of colorful fish to help stock the nation’s aquariums. ADVERTISING Some day, tanks at aquaculture farms ...

The yellow tang (top) and Hawaiian cleaner wrasse (bottom) are among Hawaii’s diverse families of reef fish, many of which have connections to Hawaii’s culture and past. — Maui Ocean Center / EVAN ...

A West Hawaii reef fish will be safe from human harvesting for another two years but no longer, the state Board of Land and Natural Resources has decided. More than two years into the rebuilding of ...

A yellow tang, above, swim among micro-fragmented coral pyramid modules at the DLNR Division of Aquatic Resources’ Anuenue Coral Restoration Nursery. The fish is illegal to catch and sell commercially ...

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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 ...

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 ...