Group Notes

MORE FISH IN THE SEA • E Ola ke Kai, E Ola Kakou

A COMMON VISION – A SHARED KULEANA
April 4, 2009

Action Planning Groups

Re-typed by Jessica Van Leuven on 4/8/09

Italics= Added text

Group: Traditional Fishery (guessing/ unknown)

I. Challenges & Opportunities Identified:

• Lack of awareness- causes and effects

• Don’t understand ecosystems and their inter-relations, e.g. deforestation and runoff
• Pavement and runoff, including oil

2. Actions We Can Take (Should be in “Challenges” section?):

• Mindset of scarcity leads to hoarding

• Mindset of fish as objects, not living resources
• Population, development, and tourism
• Antiquated septic and sewer system
• Control pesticide runoff, including golf courses

2. Others We Can Enlist:

• Commercial fishing- regulations needed

• Airlines and Cruise ships- education for visitors, e.g. standing on coral, wearing too much sunscreen
• Snorkeling- mindset
• Restaurants- more sustainable fishing

2. What We Commit To:

• Plastic bags, bottles, disposables

• Conserve water, e.g. take shorter showers
• Use the press, write articles
• Hotel information to visitors regarding ocean awareness, i.e. well placed articles

Group: Fish Replenishment Area

1. Challenges & Opportunities Identified:

• Enforcement

  - (Opportunity) Public buy-in/ support
• Creates area for poaching
  - (Opportunity) Save fish for future; bigger fish equals more fish
  
• More you get, more you can take, equals more food
• Education

2. Actions We Can Take:

• Public Meetings, education, especially lawmakers

• Designate more areas
• Communicate science better
• More volunteer naturalists
• Enlist Kupunas and cultural knowledge

3. Others We Can Enlist:

• Cultural Kupuna- traditional knowledge

• Visitor industry- hotels
• Schools

4. What We Commit To:

• Educate and inform others

• Pono

Group: Wastewater/ Pollution

1. Challenges & Opportunities Identified:

• Sludge disposal

• Leaky sewers
• Treatment Plant
• Industrial
• Regulations
• Air Quality
• Litter

2. Actions We Can Take:

• Prosumerism, i.e. lessen water pollution footprint

• Stencil
• Support funding for agencies
• Clean-ups
• Gray Water
• Education

3. Others We Can Enlist:

• Civil engineers- find alternatives to sewage treatment

• Elected Representatives
• Education- through Akaku, schools, libraries
• Enlist citizen

4. What We Commit To:

• Not use harsh chemicals

• Participate in meetings, hearings, comments
• Not littering
• Tell a friend
• Vote for water quality
• Hold people accountable

Group: Prosumerism- Sustainable Restaurant Practices

1. Challenges & Opportunities Identified:

Challenges:

• Customer demand

• Cost of sustainable products
• Lack of knowledge
• Sourcing the product

  Opportunities:

• Ability to source product
• Get guides out
• Introduce sustainable selection

2. Actions We Can Take:

• Habitat protection

• Choose wisely on the menu
• Pass on the knowledge
• Don’t waste food/ value food
• Limit consumption
• Ask questions and create demand, therefore spreading awareness

3. Others We Can Enlist:

• Community members

• More restaurants
• Grocery stores
• Fishermen
• Consumers

4. What We Commit To:

• Ask questions

• Use your seafood wallet card
• Educate others
• Practicing within family

Group: Sustainable Agriculture

1. Challenges & Opportunities Identified:

Challenges:

• Expensive land and water

• Cheap imports

  Opportunities:

• Local food better for us
• Offers us “food security”

2. Actions We Can Take:

• Grow organic food

• School gardens
• Community gardens
• Compost
• Support local growers by buying local food

3. Others We Can Enlist:

• Politicians

• Educators
• MLP and A & B- donate land or long term affordable leases
• Land Trust- food and energy growing easements

4. What We Commit To:

• To have the community growing in backyards

• Grow, educate, eat local
• Sustainable, organically grown food
• Support people in getting started with their own gardens

Group: Fish Ponds

1. Challenges & Opportunities Identified:

Challenges: Opportunities:

• Devolopers

• Awareness
• Permits
• Education
• Silt and sedimentation
• Distribution
• Cost
• Transportation
• Privatization
• Access
• Sustained/ focused action
• Outdoor classroom
• Work study/ hands on
• Work/ volunteer
• Food
• Cultural connection
• Employment
• Clean water
• Sustainability

2. Actions We Can Take:

• Teach on another

• News articles
• Join groups
• Grants
• Recruit more Hawaiians
• Find loko i’a and WORK!
• Field trips
• Community work days
• Identify/ give names to loko i’a (i’a = fish or any marine animal)
• Create music
• Networking
• Kapu times/ Sustainability
• Enforcement
• Education
• Get into the ponds; get dirty hand to hand!

3. Others We Can Enlist:

• Friends

• Family
• Everyone else who didn’t show up today!

4. What We Commit To:

• Write a song

• Tell some Braddahs
• Going to Moloka’i- community work day
• Share info through mo’olelo (story)
• Classroom presentation
• Talk to group members- Gordon Bailey
• Share info and volunteer
• Write article
• Take friends to work at fishpond
• Committing to writing more grants
• Create Green jobs
• Presentations to classrooms

Group: Ocean & Beach Clean-Ups

1. Challenges & Opportunities Identified:

Challenges:

• Major Storm/ Wind Events

• Overuse of plastics
• Dissemination of education/ Respect

  Opportunities:

• Coordination of NGO’s and Government

2. Actions We Can Take:

In response to Challenges:

• Major Storm/ Wind Events→ Create storm patrol clean-up for when debrs is on shore and not yet in ocean (online)

• Dissemination of education/ Respect→ Adopt-A-Beach program (with school kids)
• Map out kuleana’s
• Make a movie

  In response to Opportunities:

• Coordination o NGO’s and Government→ Create calendar of NGO’s clean-up schedule (promote/ help eachother)

3. Others We Can Enlist:

• Students

• Non-profits
• Environmental Coordinator- County, Government
• Community work day
• Media
• Surf Contests (add on beach clean-up, environmental portions)

4. What We Commit To:

• Objective- Create awareness to keep shoreline/ ocean clean

• Stencils- to keep area clean for shoreline/ public areas
• Group (Non-profits)- work together and communicate

Group: Sustainable Marine Tourism

1. Challenges & Opportunities Identified:

• Snorkeling
• Whale watching
• Sailing Charters
• Diving
• Kayaking
• Fishing
• Dinner Cruises
• Inter-island ferries
• Over Use
• Crowding
• Pumping
• Waste
• Trash

Actions We Can Take:

• Lotteries, different days and locations, permits

• Mooring pins
• State providing funding for pump out facilities
• Enforcement
• Biodegradable plates and cups

3. Others We Can Enlist:

• Pass mandate that businesses use biodegradable products

• Permitting (limit on number of companies)
• Stronger industry oversight with consequences for not following rules (loss of spot on lottery)

4. What We Commit To:

• Demanding follow-thru from elected officials

• Raise awareness of issues
• Encouraging tourists to choose eco- friendly tours (eco-certification for companies?)
• Crews commit to teaching their customers

Group: Sustainable Marine Recreation

1. Challenges & Opportunities Identified:

• Education of public (tourist and ? you), e.g. commercial operators, residents, government

• Consistent monitoring
• People feeling problems too big
• Recreational fishing licensing

2. Actions We Can Take:

• Program for public and marine tour guides (FREE)

• Require certification for business operations
• Specific classes for different activities
• Gain support for rec. fish

3. Others We Can Enlist:

• State, County

• Diveshops, hotels, cruise ships
• Consult with people with programs educating public
• Schools, public/ private
• Airlines, commercial operators

4. What We Commit To:

• Get our companies/ organizations to offer classes, i.e. reach out and educate public

• Offer DVD for fundraising (Oasis of the Pacific)
• Free ocean training two times a year
• Coral card

Group: Sustainable Land Use; Eco- Architecture, built environment & Stream Restoration, Lo’I kalo, ahupua’a

1. Challenges & Opportunities Identified:

Challenges (group’s rough draft):

(A.)

• Definitions of Eco- Sustainable Practices

• Where to Focus energy/ intention
• Redefine shelter- Simpler designs, current building model/ unsustainable designs
• Lack of understanding about benefit of building green

  (B.)

• Streams controlled by large corporations
• Native stream life not enough, e.g. water, no monitoring of conditions

  (C.)

• Government funding- Lack of direction for sustainability
• Lack of funding for sustainable building
• Big money behind status quo

  (D.)

• Lack of utilization of indigenous resources

  Challenges Re-Written by Group:

  (A.)

• Lack of definitions and education of eco-sustainable practices
• Redefine shelter and housing and the built environment

  (B.)

• Streams and resources are controlled by Big Business

  -Not shared equitably with people

  (C.)

• Government regulations and capital resources do not encourage sustainable practices

  (D.)

• Lack of utilization of local and indigenous resources

2. Actions We Can Take:

(group added: “…Solutions/ Opportunities” sub-heading)

(A.)

• More public involvement
• Benchmarks and research
• Education and public awareness

  (B.)

• Revolt (Streams)!!
• Sugarcane- obsolete
• Utilize laws protecting public trust

  (C.)

• Alliances with education
• Atmosphere of mandated sustainable practices
• Schools

  (D.)

• Develop local markets

  (E.)

• Reintroduce the ahupua’a
• Model for sustainable sharing and utilization and caretaking of resources

3. Others We can Enlist:

(section missing, included in above?)

4. What We Commit To:

(section missing, included in above?)

Group: Sustainable Land Use; Reforestation, Watershed Partnerships, Permaculture

1. Challenges & Opportunities Identified:

• Alien species crowd out our better suited native species

• Lack of comprehensive, integrated management models

2. Actions We Can Take:

• Develop and support native nurseries

• Encourage and support watershed partnerships and expand their scope

3. Others We Can Enlist:

• Anyone even mildly green who enjoys nature and backcountry Maui

• Some schools
• Some folks in government, e.g. DCNR, DOH, County
• Environmental coordinator

4. What We Commit To:

• Prolonged observation and contemplation of landscapes

• Seed and plant material collection