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  2. Red Hill water crisis - Wikipedia

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    The Honolulu Board of Water Supply (BWS) is the municipal water utility for the island of Oʻahu, and is an agency of the City and County of Honolulu. [24] BWS operates an islandwide water system that serves nearly all of Oʻahu's 1 million residents with water from 100 water sources that tap into groundwater located in aquifers underneath the ...

  3. American Samoa says restrictions on fishing are crippling the ...

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    A new proposal from President Joe Biden in March 2023 would further expand it to protect 777, 000 square miles of the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone, known as the EEZ—an area larger than Alaska ...

  4. Magnuson–Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act

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    This prompted major amendments in 1996 and 2006. The National Marine Fisheries Service issued a report to Congress in 2010 on the status of U.S. fisheries. It reported that of the 192 stocks monitored for overfishing 38 stocks (20%) still have fish "mortality rates that exceed the overfishing threshold … and 42 stocks (22%) are overfished". [12]

  5. National Marine Fisheries Service - Wikipedia

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    Overfishing, which NOAA Fisheries is tasked with preventing, is a major threat to biodiversity, global food security, and the fishing sector. [ 20 ] [ 23 ] The MSA also requires that overfished stocks be rebuilt within 10 years, except in cases where the life history characteristics of the stock, environmental conditions or management measures ...

  6. The number of fish on US overfishing list reaches an ... - AOL

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    The overfishing list reflects species that have an unsustainably high harvest rate. NOAA also keeps a list of overfished stocks. Those are species that have a total population size that is too low.

  7. Honolulu Fish Auction - Wikipedia

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    Honolulu Fish Auction has been operating since 1952, selling between 70,000 and 90,000 pounds of fish per day, operating six days per week. It is the sole large-scale auction for tuna west of Tokyo, Japan, and its operations are based on the same system used at the former Tsukiji Market Auction in Tokyo. [ 1 ]

  8. Honolulu Board of Water Supply adopts rate hike of over 50%

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    The Honolulu Board of Water Supply has adopted a more than 50 % water rate hike for a majority of its Oahu customers. The agency's board of directors Monday voted 5-1, with board member Gene ...

  9. Overfishing - Wikipedia

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    Jack mackerel caught by a Chilean purse seiner Fishing down the food web. Overfishing is the removal of a species of fish (i.e. fishing) from a body of water at a rate greater than that the species can replenish its population naturally (i.e. the overexploitation of the fishery's existing fish stock), resulting in the species becoming increasingly underpopulated in that area.