Comments on: Is there a good fish farm? https://www.jimdrohman.com/blog/2011/04/03/is-there-a-good-fish-farm/ Sun, 01 Jan 2012 21:52:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: L Cox https://www.jimdrohman.com/blog/2011/04/03/is-there-a-good-fish-farm/#comment-309 Sun, 01 Jan 2012 21:52:25 +0000 http://www.cafepresseseattle.com/jimdrohman/?p=91#comment-309 I think you would find the ancient fish ponds of historic Hawai’i very interesting. Small fish were happy to stay in the ponds, and grew too large to exit through the drainage holes. There is one on the Big Island, North of the Kona airport, that you own: it is a National Park. The freshwater intake is being polluted by development around it, but for years nothing seems to be getting done about that. Let’s hope the renaissance of Hawai’ian culture will restore a working pond.
http://www.nps.gov/kaho/index.htm

There are many fish ponds still visible around Moloka’i. Before contact with Western diseases, the Hawai’ian Islands supported a fairly large population and fish-farming was an important part of feeding all those people. It’s not always a good weather day to be going out on the ocean, so the ponds were always available, even if it was only the Ali’i (royals) that got to eat there.

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