#Keoki Stender
New ‘Fish Pono’ campaign highlights herbivore fishes key to healthy coral reefs in Hawaiʻi
When herbivores — our reef’s lawnmowers — such as uhu (parrotfishes), nenue (chubs), kala, kole, manini, other surgeonfishes and sea urchins are in low abundance, coral reefs are overgrown with seaweeds and begin to suffocate and die.