Kahaluu closed for coral spawning May 1-2
April 27, 2018 (West Hawaii Today)—Hawaii County Department of Parks and Recreation will close Kahaluu Beach Park from 7 a.m. to noon on Tuesday and Wednesday due to anticipated coral spawning events.
According to the Division of Aquatic Resources and Eyes of the Reef Network, cauliflower coral (pocillopora meandrina) was once abundant on shallow coral reefs along West Hawaii, including Kahaluu Bay. However, a global thermal stress event resulting in very high ocean temperatures struck West Hawaii in the fall of 2015, and caused catastrophic bleaching and mortality for more than 90 percent of the regional population of cauliflower coral.