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People may have noticed the price of your poke and seafood is on the rise. You may be seeing trouble when you pull out your wallet to pay for fish

The transition was supposed to be done by July. Now, expect it done by the end of the year, an industry leader says.

Hawaii Fishermen Concerned Over Growing Chinese Presence 05 Aug 2021, 17:35 GMT+10 HONOLULU - Early morning in Honolulu, yellowfin, bigeye and other types of tuna, along with swordfish, are put up for auction after being offloaded from ships overnight. Longline boats, 145 of them, operate from this port, trailing kilometers-long baited lines. These vessels mostly fish in international waters at least 400 kilometers offshore, alongside boats from Taiwan, China, Japan and South Korea. Wholesale buyers compete for the catch in an early morning auction, and a single high-quality tuna can fetch fr...

In the pre-dawn hours of Feb. 1, 2020, the Robin II, a Honolulu-based fishing longliner, was confronted by a larger Taiwanese-flagged vessel about 115 miles south of Hawaii. The American-flagged Robin II’s owner Jino Lee said the Chi Win No. 1688, also a longliner, aggressively charged his boat as members of both crews argued and shouted in different languages. The Robin II, which is captained by Lee’s father and has five crew members, is 62 feet long and weighs about 69 tons, while the Chi Win No. 1688 has 30 crew members, is 138.5 feet long and weighs about 327 tons, according to a Wes...

Chinas fleet of government-subsidised ships strayed into more distant waters in search of seafood and more influence has become a common point of concern for Hawaiis commercial fishermen and the US military. According to Civil Beat, local longliners have reported seeing growing numbers