What is native Hawaiian view on eating turtle?

[MarkP]

I can see how allowing harvesting would create a sense of being invested in the welfare of the turtle population. OTOH it is hard to see how that could help more than the killing of actual turtles would hurt.

[Seeb]

If it’s cultural then OHA would be in change of it. Guess how that would turn out

[bananahead]

Robert Keli'iho'omalu Sr. used to call it 'chicken' when he fed it to his ohana...

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