Walled Fish Traps of Pearl Harbor. 3I 



date as about thirteen generations ago, when the building of the 

 walled fish ponds must have been sufficiently novel to the native 

 chronicler for the fact to be recorded. Then it was that Kalai- 

 mamiia,* queen of Oahu, was accredited with the building of three 

 fish ponds in Pearl Harbor, Kapaakca in Waimalu, and Opu and 

 Paaiau in Kalauao, and her son Kaihikapu is mentioned as con- 

 structing two more in Moanalua near by. As to whether the fish 

 ponds or the fish traps took precedence in time in these islands is 

 an open question. Under ordinary circumstances it might easily 



FIG. 8. SOUTH WAI.I. OF PAKIXE, LOOKING WEST. 



be conceived how fishermen observing the assistance given by a 

 natural wall or bank in the water and channels in the reefs, when 

 surrounding their prey, would construct artificial walls to assist in 

 driving the fish, and the walled fish trap as here illustrated might 

 follow as a natural development. Ethnology teaches us that the 

 rearing of animals denotes a higher civilization than the hunting 

 of the same, and it is reasonable to admit that the growing of fish 

 in the ponds and their conservation for future needs is an advance 

 on the method of capturing supplies to fill immediate demands. 



The original fish pond was probably a fish trap in which a 

 larger supply than needed was taken at one time and the fish re- 

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