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Yellow tang project holds promise for Hawaii’s popular, iconic fish

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The yellow tang is the most commonly caught aquarium fish in Hawaii. Milolii villagers have vastly different views on whether to end Hawaii's aquarium trade.
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Several of the tanks, above, house yellow tang at the Oceanic facility.

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Oceanic Institute research technician Katie Hiew tends to a tank housing juvenile yellow tang being raised in captivity at the institute’s Waimanalo facility. Eventually, many will end up in hobbyist aquariums.

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Chad Callan, who heads Oceanic Institute’s yellow tang breeding project in Waimanalo, shows the tanks where algae are grown. The algae become food for zooplankton, tiny marine animals also raised at the facility. Zooplankton babies then become food for yellow tang larvae.