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Kalepolepo Fishpond, known by its older name Koʻieʻi.e.Loko Iʻa, is an ancient Hawaiian fishpond estimated to have been built between 1400 and 1500 AD.. The fishpond is located in Kalepolepo Park in Kihei, Maui.
A walled coastal pond (loko iʻa kuapā), it is the only Hawaiian fishpond fully encircled by a wall (kuapā). Constructed sometime between the early 1200s and early 1400s, it was badly damaged by a 1965 flood and fell into disrepair. A protected area, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
This made a wall that separated the pond from the ocean. However, these ponds were still connected to the ocean via small canals which would allow seawater fish to enter the fishpond during the rising tide. These brackish-water ponds were very productive and were filled with many different types of species. [citation needed]
The absence of fish is a very important characteristic of these ponds since it prevents long chained biotic interactions from establishing. Ponds without these competitive predation pressures provides breeding locations and safe havens for endangered or migrating species. Hence, introducing fish to a pond can have seriously detrimental ...
The name Huilua, which can be translated 'join-twice', may refer to the two gates. The favorite type of fish in the pond were ʻamaʻama (flathead grey mullet), which reproduce in the ocean but can live in either fresh, brackish, or salt water. [4] Many Hawaiian fishponds were built between about the early 1400s and early 1600s.
A deep ocean exists beneath the icy, cratered surface of Saturn’s moon Mimas, according to a new analysis of data from NASA’s Cassini mission.
Kahaluu Pond, Inc., now leases its property for Hawaiian weddings. There is a wedding chapel at one end and a pavilion and garden area at the other, each leased to different vendors. Columbia Pictures also filmed part of The Karate Kid Part II , at the site.
The ʻAlekoko Fishpond, known locally as the Menehune Fishpond, [2] near Līhuʻe, Hawaiʻi, on the island of Kauaʻi, is a historic Hawaiian fishpond.Also known as Alakoko Fishpond, it has been listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places since 1973.