New program hopes to help reestablish opihi in the wild

Opihi are considered a Hawaiian delicacy that have gotten harder to find over the years. A program at the University of Hawaii at Manoa is hoping to change all that.
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[@danielapilando8396]

Pick for eat not make money…

[@bluemoon3264]

I don’t touch them because I want them to survive .

[@MaureenKo1]

Not only release them into the wild but consider farming them. Shrimp, prawn, eels, salmon, limu, even ahi are now “farmed” in captivity to enhance the stock. Why not opihi? I’ve heard people say that farmed salmon have more parasites and don’t taste as good as wild but they also have less mercury in them. So with the good can come the bad. It’s a trade off worth experimenting on. Yes, I love opihi.

[@gaysniper]

I’ll always eat a few whenever I see them.

[@davidkoba]

What you need to do is regulate picking. The mainland has tons of marine life for harvesting because there are strict regulations. It is the hawaiian's right to harvest from the ocean but it is our responsibility to maintain the resource. You think hawaiians would allow unsustainable harvesting back in the day? Hell no.

[@frankybobo7763]

I want jen boneza's opihi's

[@hwn8088]

No Hawaiians No ALOHA and No Opihi ...Aole

[@jtabarejo]

Noble project but get real. Thirty days and one opihi the size of a pencil tip? Are these researchers getting paid with taxpayers $$$ ?

[@michaelcrabtree2939]

Please reepopulate opihi!

[@brunovegas3318]

Why just uh local people can do the same thing lol...

[@diveanddine]

I was born and raised on Oahu I think I tried Opihi only once…

[@talon61]

there's plenty on oahu just gotta know where to go

[@amanryan6803]

No food for you dirty humans 🦎👽 EAT ZE BUGS.

[@kawikadavid8958]

Never happen.

[@StyleshStorm]

I lived all my life from the 90s to October 2021 and never tasted Opihi once. Always seemed yucky to me. What's it taste like?

[@dulakamanawa6113]

Don't eat it you'll get sick😳😳🤣🤣

[@AMS-ri3xm]

🤙😋

[@johnwindham6226]

$20 for a quarter pound, I will happily ship from big island to Oahu for $115 a pound no problem.

[@woodyahh2110]

And that's how they will be put on a hands off list

[@StyleshStorm]

Friend of mine who's homeless that lives Hilo side but around the area where you cross da bridge to go Waimea and Kona side harvests Opihi there. Although ethically it starts to become a problem at that point because if more people do that especially the homeless that live near beaches big island will start to decline in Opihi population too.

[@bluemoon3264]

It’s cheaper on Oahu .

[@sousay2000]

Wouldn’t be cheaper to pay the 20$ for a 1/4 pound.

[@johnwindham6226]

@@sousay2000 of course it would but they said they rarely get them, Big island I can get 5 gallon buckets of them and they’re big.