HomeMy WebLinkAboutCommunication No. 2024-14 Bob Nishimoto PresentationShared Governance of our Aquatic Kuleana
Kahawai-Muliwai-Kahakai
Bob Nishimoto
Hāmākua CDP-AC member
Communication No. 2024-14
CDP Action Guide
4.2 Protect Coastal Resources
1
Hāmākua Community
Development Plan
August 2018
Ordinance No. 2018-78
Community Action 3
Develop a Coastal Resource management
plan as part of Watershed Management
plans
Community Action 4
Support the organization of a community-
based hui for the fisher people of the
Hāmākua Coast
Proposed Kawainui Makai PONC Purchase
fish nursery habitat, resilience against climate change …what happens mauka,
does not stay mauka.
Muliwai is keystone to coastal resource management
*Bridges kahawai to kahakai *Nursery habitat for marine coastal fishes *Gateway to native stream species
Estuary
Bottom-up Fishery Management (FM)
Community-Based FM
+Fishers who live and work in their
community with historical knowledge
+Focus ocean resource management to
individual/village areas
+Qualitative not quantitative data for
rule-making
Ecosystem-Based FM
+Managing fisheries on coast-wide scale
+Maintain ecosystem in a healthy,
productive, resilient condition
+Can apply to management of
protected species
Ecosystem-
Based
Fishery
Management
Sustainable
Stocks
Coastal &
Watershed
Management
Plan
T.E.K.*
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Science
Hui
Driven
*Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Hāmākua Hui
Hawai’i County
Hāmākua Development Plan Action Committee (HDP-AC)
Public Access, Open Space, and Natural Resources (PONC)
State of Hawai’i
Hawai’i Division of Aquatic Resources (HDAR)
Marine and Coastal Zone Advocacy Committee (MACZAC)
Fisher Community
Hawai’i Fishermen’s Alliance for Conservation and Tradition (HFACT)
Life Cycle of our Coastal Fish
Ecosystem Management of our Coastal Fisheries
Estuary
Reefs
Pelagic
Threats & Solutions to Hāmākua Coast Subsistence Fisheries
Sustainable Fishery
Land-based pollution,
sediment runoff, cliff slides
Protect natural streamflow to
the ocean
Estuary as essential fish habitat
for sustainable fishery
‘Fish is a by-product of a healthy
habitat’
Climate threat of sea
level rise, severe
weather
Build resilience with
healthy nursery habitat
Diet for Juvenile
Hawksbill turtle
Maintain ecosystem
health
Goals for Community Actions #3 & 4
1.Adopt Hawaiian perspective of ‘Mauka-Muliwai-Makai’
“Native Forest Natural Stream Flow Momona Ocean”
2. Focus on nursery habitat (estuary) degradation, not overfishing, will
gain fisher partnerships, coastal community support, climate resiliency
3. Use Chapter 37 of the Hawaii County Code, Sustainability, Climate,
Equity, and Resilience (OSCER) as guidepost
Next step…
1. Recognize estuary as the keystone aquatic habitat
2. Organize regional hui for coastal resource management
3. OSCER* bridges County & State jurisdictions
*Office of Sustainability, Climate, Equity, and Resilience
Not my kuleana…
is not an option