Hawaiian Studies (HWST 107): Aquaculture Resources

Includes selected information on aquaculture, fishponds, aquifers, water channels ('auwai), etc. Refer to the index at the back of the book.

Now an entirely updated, full-color edition of the book includes numerous additional sites and expanded site descriptions...chapters describing aspects of Hawaiian culture and five main types of sites: heiau (temples), pohaku (sacred stones), petroglyphes, caves and rock shelters, and fishponds.

The fresh voices gathered in this book share their inspiring work and ideas for creating value, addressing a wide range of topics- including community health, agriculture/farming/aquaculture, public education, local business, energy, gender, rural lifestyles, sacred community, activism, storytelling, mo'olelo, migration, voyaging, visual art, music, and the 'aina we continue to love and malama. E-BOOK VERSION

Includes information about fishponds on the island of Kauai.

The fifty sites covered in this book are distributed over all of the main islands and include heiau (temples), habitation sites, irrigated and dryland agricultural complexes, fishponds, petroglyphs, and several post-contact (early nineteenth-century) sites.

Available online, 76p PDF

Tide and Current: Fishponds of Hawaii chronicles ten years in the life of author and artist Carol Araki Wyban, during which she lived with, learned about, and came to love the fishponds of Hawaii.

Hawaii's sugar industry enjoyed great success for most of the twentieth century, and its influence was felt across a broad spectrum: economics, politics, the environment, and society. This success was made possible, in part, through the liberal use of Hawaii's natural resources. Chief among these was water, which was needed in enormous quantities to grow and process sugarcane. Between 1856 and 1920, sugar planters built miles of ditches, diverting water from almost every watershed in Hawaii.