'After about four years looking for the pearl oysters ... we finally got some to actually attach to our cages.'
visit Pearl Harbor to see the USS Arizona Memorial, but few know more than its military history.
“It was easily one of the most productive and abundant areas in the state in terms of food resources created,” Rhiannon Terearii Chandler-Iao, executive director ofA map of Pearl Harbor in 1873 with the 22 fishponds colored in blue. Most were destroyed or filled in and, today, only three remain.“After contact, that area got completely exploited by the plantations,” Chandler-Iao says. “The water quality has suffered significantly over the last, I would say, 200 years.
“After about four years looking for the pearl oysters, and never able to identify them in the water, we finally got some to actually attach to our cages on their own,” says Chandler-Iao. “My family is connected to the harbor because our great ancestor — his name was Mikalemi — and he was the last caretaker of the fishing ahu [shrine] of Puuloa,” says Kehaulani Lum of the Alii Pauahi Hawaiian Civic Club. “He did so by ensuring the Ku and Hina stones [Hawaiian deities] were honored.”
An aerial view of Paaiau fishpond, one of the more easily accessible fishponds still in existence in Pearl Harbor.“The plan calls for it to be fully restored to a working fishpond, and to serve as a cultural, educational and traditional healing space,” says Lum. Since 2014, groups of volunteers have been peeling back the layers of mangrove.
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