Catch You Later

Monday 6-16-08 BY: JENNIFER SMITH

New lunar calendar tells Hawaiians when not to fish.

Mac Poepoe, a conservationist on Molokai, helped publish a calendar telling people when not to fish.

By Christopher Pala
Conservation Magazine April-June 2008

Everyone knows how a fishing calendar works: it tells you when you have the best chance of catching the most fish. This year, though, Mac Poepoe, a conservationist on Hawaii’s Molokai Island, helped publish an unusual variation on this formula. Poepoe and his colleagues decided to print a calendar telling people when not to fish.

Poepoe is a member of Ho’olehua Hawaiian Homestead, a community of 1,000 on Molokai’s remote northeast coast. Many of the homestead’s residents still follow a subsistence lifestyle, gathering roughly one-third of their food by fishing in nearby...

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