12/3/11
By Christine Hitt
I helped put together this video for http://www.honolulumagazine.com. It was great to learn first-hand the Hawaiian traditional practices of building a Hawaiian fishpond. In ancient Hawaii, the entire community (thousands of people) lined up and worked together to build these by handing rocks person-to-person, as we did in the video. It provided self-sustaining food for each ahupuaa.
I dug up the old fishpond photos (from the Hawaii State Archives) shown in the video, and will have more to share soon. Join in the efforts to restore this fishpond on second Saturdays. Visit paepaeoheeia.org for details.
