LOST FISH Coalition

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LOST FISH does not support Rene Umberger or her "For the Fishes" campaign here in Kona!

How would you feel if your neighbor came over to your property and started digging up your yard? Suppose this neighbor had an ulterior motive to drive you out and take over your land? What if this neighbor told all your surrounding friends and other neighbors that you were too stupid to know how to properly take care of your own place and someone had to come over and do it, even without your permission? Would probably irritate you, wouldn’t it?

Recently, Rene Umberger, a protege of Snorkel Bob, has been all over West Hawaii, giving presentations of “their” version of what’s happening in West Hawaii. Even though they don’t live here. Even though they don’t swim, snorkel, dive in our waters. They have, unfortunately, sucked in a lot of good people with a whole lot of bad information. Disinformation, actually, because it’s not accidentally bad; it’s deliberately false. You can’t build good things on lies. If they truly have a case, then why do they have to manipulate the data?

Although clothed in the very popular idea of banning aquarium collecting, they are also an attempt to undo all the management that we have set up here in West Hawaii. This is a Maui initiative and we should not support it.

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LOST FISH has been protecting West Hawaii's reefs for more than a decade

Hawaii's beautiful tropical reef fish are a joy to its residents and a thrill to visitors. Unfortunately, over-exploitation, especially in the form of live capture by the aquarium industry, has threatened to denude our reefs of the colorful fish for which they are famous. Additionally, other rare and important species such as manta rays and sharks are susceptible to being wiped out without adequate protections.

For more than ten years the LOST FISH Coalition (which stands for Leave Our Shallow Tropical Fish in their Sea Habitat) has worked with the Hawaii State Legislature to pass laws protecting the reef fish along the west coast of the Big Island of Hawaii. We have been instrumental in shaping public marine resouce policy and have been unflagging advocates for the desires of the public to protect these resources.

This site is a working site to keep our members informed of newly-emerging threats, what our plan of action is, and what they can do to keep our reef fish populations healthy. If you are interested in what we do, read on. If you decide to help us, please join!

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Who knows how many fish die on the boat? On the trip to the harbor or to the airport as they're shipped all over the world? This is what happens to reef fish: they end up in the garbage, as collectors head out to capture more "ornamentals."


	Protect Hawaii's Reef Life