Sunday, January 30th, was a beautiful day at Kahekili in terms of conditions. Lots of whales, too! I ran into 4 spearfishermen. I spoke to 1 spearfisherman when he was walking down to the sandy area, he was carrying 3 spears but when I asked him what he was going to fish for, he said he wasn't going to fish. I asked him if he knew about the management area and herbivores being protected, he didn't know but didn't seem to particularly care, either. He was a bit on the hostile side. My second encounter was right after I got into the water, and this guy also didn't know about the management area or the herbivores being protected, but he was friendlly and receptive.
I swam down to the Mahana, where I ran into 2 more spearfishermen. I'm pretty sure they were 2 of the guys John and I spoke to a couple of days ago when they were with a threesome and 2 of them had brown tangs. This time one of them had a convict tang and another fish that I couldn't see, and the older guy had a black bag that obviously had something in it but I couldn't tell what it was and he wasn't about to tell me. They both said they didn't know about the management area or the herbivores being protected, I pointed out that we spoke to them the day before yet they still had a convict tang on their string, at which point they just ignored me. I told them that taking manini is against the law in the management area, but they ignored me and pretended that I wasn't there. They were in the exact same area that they were in 2 days ago, I'm sure we'll see them there again.
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I wonder how much some of these folks who are harvesting from the reef care about its future potential, as a harvest site?
It seems some people base their justification on the past and care only for the present; no thought given to the future.
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