wildlife inventory and issues affecting kawaihae coral reef
Recently, a hawksbill sea turtle I saw and reported to Hawksbill of Hawaii in Kawaihae Harbor was found entangled with fish hooks according to Marc Rice, HPA Director, HPA Sea Turtle Research “…there was a hooked turtle at Kawaihae and I was able to connect with the Ocean Sports boat captain to retrieve it.… Read more “Endangered Hawksbill Sea Turtles are entangled with hooks in the harbor”
Northwestern island of the Hawaiian chains are under a coral bleaching alert watch.
Sea water temperature was cooler at the beginning of June 2017 then June 2016. Overall temperatures cycles are similar.… Read more “sea temperature comparision 2016.06 to 2017.06”
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2015/20150706-coral-bleaching-threat-increasing-in-western-atlantic-and-pacific-oceans.html… Read more “NOAA coral bleaching report”