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New lunar calendar tells Hawaiians when not to fish

By Christopher Pala
April-June 2008 (Vol. 9, No. 2)

Everyone knows how a fishing calendar works: it tells you when you have the best chance of catching the most fish. This year, though, Kelson Poepoe, a conservationist on Hawaii’s Molokai Island, helped publish an unusual variation on this formula. Poepoe and his colleagues decided to print a calendar telling people when not to fish.

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