• Kaloko fishpond wall is over 800 ft long and spans a natural cove

    Kaloko-Honokōhau

    National Historical Park Hawai'i

Coral Reef Studies and Products

Kaloko Pond reconstruction.
Recent Kaloko Pond reconstruction.
NPS photo.
 

The park's recent marine and freshwater reports include, in part:

Ball, F. 1977. Benthic marine algae of the coastal waters of Puukohola Heiau National Historic Site. Tech. Report #16, Coop. National Park Resources Study Unit, Dept. of Botany, Univ. of Hawai`i , Honolulu, Hawai`i . 12 pp.

Brasher, A. 1996. Ichthyological survey of selected ponds on the Island of Hawai`i .

Brasher, A. 1999. Development of a monitoring program to assess physical, chemical and biological components of Kaloko Fishpond at Kaloko-Honokohau National Historical Park on the Island of Hawai`i .

Cheney, D., D. Hemmes and R. Nolan. 1977. Physiography and marine fauna of inshore and intertidal areas in Puukohala Heiau National Historic Site. Tech. Report #13, Coop. National Park Resources Study Unit, Dept. of Botany, Univ. of Hawai`i , Honolulu, Hawai`i . 36 pp.

Doty, M. 1969. The ecology of Honaunau Bay, Hawai`i . University of Hawai`i , Hawai`i Botanical Science Paper No. 14.

Ludwig, G.M., L.R. Taylor, Jr., and D.M. Imose. 1980. Summer census of the reef-fish community of waters adjacent to Pu'uhonua o Honaunau National Historic Park Summers 1974-1978. Honolulu, Cooperative National Park Resources Studies Unit University of Hawaii at Manoa: 46.

Parrish, J., G. Smith, and J. Norris. 1990. Resources of the marine waters of Kaloko-Honokohau National Historical Park. University of Hawai`i Cooperative Ecosystem Technical Report 74.

Peterson, John A. and Maria Ka’imopono Orr. 2005. I ‘Ono Ke Kole, I’a Ono Ke Kole – Sweet Conversation, Sweet-Tasting Fish: A Marine Ethnography of Kaloko-Honokohau National Historical Park, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. International Archaeological Research Institute, Inc., Honolulu. Final report prepared for National Park Service. NPS Contract No. C8298030001

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Hawaiian man building a rock wall

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