This Labor Day, Honolulu residents had a delicious time building community and protecting their local ecosystem by chowing down on an invasive species seen recently in Hawaiʻi’s reefs: ta’ape, also known as the common bluestripe snapper.
An ad for the fish fry, hosted by Hawaiʻi-sourced fish company Local I’a, was published in Honolulu Magazine. This was the second fish fry hosted by the company, after the first one sold out in only 1.5 hours.
Owner Ashley Watts is already seeing a difference when snorkeling over the reefs off the Big Island; there are fewer of the invasive fish to be seen…