So how does one respect native fishermen in today’s world? As time has gone by, the respect for fisherman had been lost . The professions of fishing and farming were the important, honored professions of our people. Articles such as “Rights and Respect for Native Fishing” “Native Hawaiians and Streams” “Ancient Hawaiians Caught more Fish by Fishing Less” discusses overfishing and how laws helped marine life thrive more than just keep people out of certain areas.
In the article Rights and Respect for native fishing by Hawaii Islands community magazine states that native hawaiians have lost their rights to eat many of the fish they used to eat and also lost rights to fish in there favorite fishing grounds. According Lawaia and Oli who are native hawaiians on the island that love to fish they are very dedicated to showing respect to other fishermen around in the area as well as keeping “Hawaiian land in Hawaiians hands”(Mandoe 2011). Many problems appear throughout their adventure as shown, fishermen get pushed out of there fishing spots all the time. Native Hawaiian fishermen get fenced off their traditional fishing trails, blocked by massive developments, even criminalized for the food they catch(Mandoe 2011). Furthermore the
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Native Hawaiian fishermen get fenced off their traditional fishing trails, blocked by massive developments, even criminalized for the food they catch. Quote “We get rights to beach access”(Mandoe 2011). We can be five feet away from the highest waterline. If they [landowners] build one wall, we can go on ‘em.” As Oli Turalde puts(Mandoe 2011). The right to fish and eat turns out to be a hotly contested cultural conflict; it involves 150 years of constitutional law. Hawaiian rights to gather on undeveloped lands including the ocean were expressly preserved when the private property model of land tenure was implemented in 1848, and they have been upheld in court to this day(Mandoe