Buzzy Agard (Part 1)
Buzzy Agard is one of the founding members of the Reserve Advisory Council. A commercial fisherman by trade, he explains how fishing trips to the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands more than 50 years ago helped him realize the need to protect the region.
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Buzzy Agard (Part 2)
Over extraction of resources like fish, coral and lobsters in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands led to the creation of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Coral Reef Ecosystem Reserve in 2000. Buzzy Agard, a one-time commercial fisherman in the region reflects on what happened.
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Buzzy Agard (Part 3)
One of the reasons to protect the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands is because species there are linked to species in the main Hawaiian Islands and thus potentially supply nursery stock and replinishment for species elsewhere.
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Buzzy Agard (Part 4)
Buzzy Agard has seen first hand what happens to ecosystems that are overused. This is why he is such a strong advocate for protecting the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands and in this 10th anniversary reflection encourages the next generation not to make the same resource management mistakes made in the past.
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Dr. Brian Bowen
The Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology is one of the research partners which conducts scientific research in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Dr. Brian Bowen reflects on the importance of this living laboratory during the 10th anniversary of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Coral Reef Ecosystem Reserve.
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Rick Gaffney
As a recreational fisher, Rick Gaffney's involvement with the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, created a change-of-heart. As a member of the Reserve Advisory Council, Rick Gaffney talks about the importance of protection and preservation.
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Barbara Maxfield (Part 1)
With the establishment of the NWHI Coral Reef Ecosystem Reserve in 2000, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service welcomed the additional level of protection as a co-manager of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
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Barbara Maxfield (Part 2)
Barbara Maxfield of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services reflects on the guiding principle of managers since the creation of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Coral Reef Ecosystem: to "bring the place to the people."
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Barbara Maxfield (Part 3)
Barbara Maxfield of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reflects on why protecting this special place is so important.
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