Waiopai (Vacation land ) Fish Die -off

[SuperGu]

Researchers investigate dead fish in Kapoho tide pool (Video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3Lym-TV3oo


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[jrw]

I was at the warm pond Tuesday and the water there was redish brown also. Didn't see any fish in the pond dead or alive

jrw

[Punatic007]

As a life time gardener I know to avoid touching any type of orange colored fungus such as mushrooms. That's the toxic stuff.

One of the vacationland tide pool snorkeling ponds, the one behind the public parking stalls and a short walk to the right, it's right edge touches the chain link fenced area....that pool almost always has an orange cast. I avoid it, assuming it's run off from the cess pools.

[ironyak]

Tribune Article
http://hawaiitribune-herald.com/news/loc...researcher

[Wao nahele kane]

Why is it that everything that now happens in the ocean is attributed to carbon output? Yeah, all of a sudden out of nowhere the cesspools did it or carbon dioxide emissions did it. Typical nonsense. The color of the water that likewise occurred at the same time say algae bloom. They happened long before global warming and cesspools and will continue to happen.

[bananahead]

Maybe someone threw akia into the pools to stun the fish for easy harvest...

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[kalani96746]

Does anyone know more about the results of the tests?

Cesspools? Red tide? Algae bloom (too much nitrogen from cesspools)? Surge from inland ponds causing organic matter from Iselle/waste to flow into the ponds?

I keep hearing "looking into it" with these things but never hear any of the scientists publish their findings.

[pahoated]

Not only fish die off, huge coral bleaching die off. Being attributed to unusual weather, high run offs, the tide pools retaining more heat than usual.
http://www.kitv.com/news/coral-bleaching...s/29933308
Coral bleaching hits Big Island's Kapoho tide pools

"Mahalo nui Pele, 'ae noho ia moku 'aina" - kakahiaka oli

[Obie]

The local head of the DLNR called my wife and said they wanted to set up a class for local residents to teach them how to collect fish when this happens and also to educate us about the reasons. Apparently the fish we collected were not viable because they were dead.We should have collected some live fish.

Even though the fish died it does not mean the water is unsafe for human beings.While fish are affected by PH,salinity and water temperature humans are not.

Hundreds of people are swimming there every day and I haven't noticed any dead tourists floating in the water or lying on the lava.

This uproar all started because Harry Kim was at his house on the lagoon and alerted the UHH , DLNR, news media and others.

Harry Kim's house was the closest house to where the fish kill occurred and he still has a cesspool !!!

I am getting tired of people blaming the residents down here of polluting the tidepools .We were able to get 18 cesspools replaced in the last year because of our own rules.No help from the county.

My wife and I had our cesspool filled and had a septic installed even though we are almost 1/4 mile from the ocean .

I really doubt that the fish die off was caused by cesspools but if you do, call Harry Kim and tell him to get his replaced !!

[Guest]

My guess is that tourists enjoy swimming around with fish and turtles, probably not dead ones though. This kind of fish die-off seems to happen regularly down in kapoho, while other places on the isle the fish grow larger and seem to carry brighter colors too. This phenomenon of ocean destruction in kapoho never happened in the dozen years we lived down there in the 80's and 90's. We also did not have all the tourism or building that goes on down there now.
Here are a few of my questions for this new phenomenon, how does one treat their cesspool on or near the ocean?. When geothermal uses 32,000 gallons of tainted ground water a minute where do they release it? How many GMO papaya farms in that area have irrigation or use mansanto's agent-orange products?. Why does the fish die-off happen in the same place now every year or twice a year, (Harry-Kims)?
We use to fish or dive that area 20 years ago then eat what we caught. Then the Dlnr took over and turned it into a Protected fish sanctuary and gave my family a couple warnings to not fish there anymore. We now don't even swim down there cause we see very few ocean creatures, the ones we do see look faded in color, slow to swim, and have plenty of what we call Mersa boils.
Tourists may not be dying, yet they are going home with staph regularly now. We worry about any open wound, even a hang nail could send you to the hospital if you choose to swim down there.