COMMERCIAL FISHERIES OF THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. 



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Table showing by apparatus and species the yield of fisheries of Lanai in 1903 — Cont'd. 



THE FISHERIES OF MAUI. 



This island, which is the second of the group in size, lies about mid- 

 way between Hawaii and Molokai, and is 46 miles in length and 30 

 miles in width, with an area of 728 square miles. It is composed of 

 two mountains — Haleakala to the northwest, with a height of 10,032 

 feet above sea level, and Eaka to the , southeast, rising 5,820 feet in 

 height. These two mountains are connected by a sandy isthmus 7 or 

 8 miles long by 6 miles across, which lies at such a slight elevation 

 above the sea that the depression of a few feet would make Maui into 

 two islands. There are no good harbors about the island. Kahului 

 Bay and Maalaea Bay, on the north and south, respectively, of the 

 neck of land joining the two parts of the island, are very open and 

 wind-swept during the greater part of the year, while Lahaina is 

 nothing but an open roadstead, though fairly safe as long as the wind 

 blows from the westward, which it does nine months of the 3^ear. 

 Kapueokahi Bay, at the western end, and Napili Bay, at the eastern 

 end of the island, are small, open bays, not much used except for load- 

 ing sugar. As a result of these conditions fishing on the island is 

 largely confined to the vicinity of the two larger harbors. 



