Kahaluu Bay closure intends to spark life beneath the surface
May 21, 2019 (West Hawaii Today)—Coral submerged in the typically crowded Kahaluu Bay is amid a reprieve from human traffic, which began Monday morning and continues through today.
The purpose of the county-imposed closure is to allow for a coral spawning event scientists predicted was most likely to occur on those two days. West Hawaii reefs lost roughly 95% of their cauliflower coral in the mass bleaching event of 2015.