Ancient Hawaiian aquaculture
Before contact with Europeans, the Hawaiian people practiced aquaculture through development of fish ponds, the most advanced fish-husbandry among the original peoples of the Pacific. While other cultures in places like Egypt and China also used the practice, Hawaii's aquaculture was very advanced considering the much smaller size of the area of Hawaii compared to other aquacultural societies. Hawaiian fishponds were typically shallow areas of a reef flat surrounded by a low lava rock wall built out from the shore. Several species of edible fish thrive in such ponds, and Hawaiians developed methods to make them easy to catch.
Alekoko "Menehune" fishpond
Native Hawaiians are the Indigenous Polynesian people of the Hawaiian Islands.
King Kamehameha II
Hawaiians performing a Hula
Hawaiian man with his two children, c. 1890
A depiction of a royal heiau (Hawaiian temple) at Kealakekua Bay, c. 1816