August 22, 2025 — The University of Hawaiʻi (UH) has launched a new sustainable fisheries initiative to conduct research and train up a new generation of leaders who can steward fisheries around the islands and in the surrounding Pacific Ocean.
As part of the initiative, the university has brought on 8 new faculty members with expertise in oceanography, economic, Indigenous coastal management, and other fisheries-related specialties. The faculty will be spread out across six schools and colleges, but they’ll work together to develop a graduate program focused on sustainable fisheries management and advancing research on island-ocean systems, UH said in a release.