Extensive fish-ponds were seen on Kauai, Hawaiian Islands. 
"Mey are of different degrees of saltness. The fish are taken 
from the sea when young and put into the saltest pond; as 
they grow larger, they are removed into one less salt, and 
are finally fattened in fresh water.” He also says "in the 
neighborhood of Honolulu, there are a number of fish-ponds 
belonging to the king, tn which are bred several kinds of 
fish. There are many other ponds belonging to individuals. 
The taro-patches are used occasionally for this purpose, 
and not infrequently are seen to contain large fish 
They have several modes of taking fish, with the net and 
hook, and sometimes with poisonous herbs. They likewise 
take shrimp and small fish by forming a small pen in the 
soft mud, in one corner of which a net is placed; the shrimp 
and fish leap over the enclosure of the pen, which is grad- 
ually contracted towards the net, which acts like a large 
seine.” At Maui "Dr. Pickering remarks, that the natives 
appear to be much better acquainted with the fish of their 
waters, than are the inhabitants of any civilized port we 
visited. A number of new species were obtained; for which 
I refer to the Feport on the ichthyology of the cruise.” 
