Fifty-Five
Saturday, May 28
Offshore from Moloka‘i
As the Moke motored through the waters, Thomas listened to the chatter among his cousins. It seemed the reefs around the most populated Hawaiian Islands had been overfished, and as a result, fishing boats from those islands had been attempting to harvest the local reefs too here on Moloka’i. It was exploitation of the worst kind, since Moloka‘i’s fishermen had done their best to be conservative in what they took. With limited resources, sustainability was equivalent to survival.
To fight back, these fishermen of the Dragon Clan, in an attempt to protect their livelihoods, had taken to boarding these fishing boats from other islands and stealing their fish and gear. Whenever possible, they avoided violence, but it was still effectively
