The yellow tang (top) and Hawaiian cleaner wrasse (bottom) are among Hawaii’s diverse families of reef fish, many of which have connections to Hawaii’s culture and past. — Maui Ocean Center ...

culture and nearshore waters of Hawaii. Herbivorous fish that live among reefs, including uhu (parrotfish), kala (unicornfish), manini (convict tang), kole (goldring surgeonfish) and others ...

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 ...