Claims of overuse plague Honomanu BayBy CHRIS HAMILTON, Staff Writer
The Maui News: June 6, 2008
Stacks of rock line a gravel bank at Honomanu Bay, a normally quiet natural area roughly halfway between Kahului and Hana, just below Kaumahina State Wayside Park. The bay has become a site for increasing conflicts involving area residents claiming the bay as their personal fishing grounds. The dispute is dividing the Keanae community, and state and county officials at a public meeting Wednesday pledged to study the situation and come back soon with potential solutions.
KEANAE — Honomanu Bay is overtaxed, some East Maui residents say.
Campers stay for a week at a time and strew the secluded black sand beach with garbage. They use the bushes as toilets. It’s hosted all-night dance parties.
When the north shore waves are up in the winter months, dozens of surfers come in and scare away the fish, subsistence fishermen told a panel of....
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