Wai‘anae Ecological Characterization

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Interview with Philip Dibibar (2)

"I grew up here and there's a lot of changes in my short life. I go diving and I spear tako, uhu, kala, nenue. That's pretty much all we catch. We've been diving five years now and I'm seeing less fish now and smaller fish, smaller than when I first started diving but not a decline in tako. I've seen uneducated divers catching small tako and I've seen people catch really small fish of a large species but it's a matter of educating them."

Reference Cited

Coastal Zone Management (CZM) Hawaii. 2003. Record of a personal interview regarding life in Waianae between Lehua Lopez-Mau, Ethnographer, and Philip Dibibar, Waianae Resident. October 25.

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