DLNR Dispatches: Community-Based Subsistence Fishing Areas

Miloli‘i Becomes Haawai‘i's Second CBSFA

Last month, with the stroke of a pen, while dozens of community members watched, Gov. David Ige signed administrative rules to make the coastline bordering this remote village the second Community-Based Subsistence Fishing Area (CBFSA) in the state. Video of the event is at: <https://vimeo.com/736310144>.

A long time in the making and supported by the persistence of residents, the Miloli‘i CBSFA will protect and conserve fish populations and their habitats by combining traditional Hawaiian fishing practices with modern approaches to conservation.Act 271, enacted by the State Legislature in 1994, led to the designation of 18-miles of coastal waters along the rugged coastline on either side of the small community as the first permanent, legislatively designated CBSFA. Years of work by dedicated community members, with support from biologists and staff at the DLNR Division of Aquatic Resources (DAR) and research and non-governmental organizations,