Wrasses make up Hawaii’s most extensive fish family, commonly referred to as hinalea or alea. Boasting a wide spectrum of colors and patterns, the wrasse family includes several endemic species ...

For decades commercial aquarium collectors in Hawaii routinely extracted hundreds of thousands of endemic and indigenous Hawaiian reef fish and invertebrates a year, packaging the live fish in plastic ...

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s study of Hawaii’s deep-sea coral reefs, 43 percent of the documented fish species were endemic, far greater than the 17 ...