Mariculture articles

NELHA searches for identity as it strives to be self-sufficient - MSNBC, 31 July 2005 (PDF 76 kb)

A state-run science and technology park sprawled over 870 acres of lava fields and wasteland south of the Kona International Airport still seeks an identity after 31 years as it tries to become self-sufficient (3 pages).

Deep SeaWater International opens bottling facility at NELHA, Hawaii - Press release, 28 July 2005 (PDF 76 kb)

Deep SeaWater International, Inc. (DSWI) will open the first phase of their bottling facility at the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority (NELHA) on July 28, 2005. It will be home to KONA DEEP(R), the 100% Hawaii Deep Sea drinking water sourced from a depth of 3000' below the ocean's surface on Hawaii's Big Island. KONA DEEP(R) will use only deep seawater sourced from 3000' (915 meters) (2 pages).

Hawaii company to export breeding shrimp to Southeast Asia - Pacific Business News, 5 October 2004 (PDF, 116 kb)

Kona Bay Marine Resources Inc., a NELHA-based marine biotechnology company, has gotten a license to export shrimp brood stock to Thailand, the largest shrimp producer in the world.

Hawaii aquaculture business grows, 6 September 2005, Pacific Business News (PDF 132 kb)

The value of Hawaii-grown aquaculture now exceeds $28 million a year, reports the National Agricultural Statistics Service Hawaii Field Office (2 pages).