I fully support the expansion of the monument. I mean, heaven forbid we live up to our ancestors values and actually protect pieces of our earth as Wao Akua. Humans should not be everywhere taking everything. And tell me Peter, what Hawaiians were heading all the way to Layson and Kure to fish?  What provisions say that the fish have to be consumed within the moment. This article lacks any well researched facts, is full of speculation, and does not embody any values that i see other than the protecting of the economics of the fishing industry. 

Adaptation is hard. We can see that in many of the Polynesian islands before Europeans. They were forced to makes difficult decisions to live within the resource base of their islands. Today it is the same thing except we need to adapt to living within the resource base of our planet. Wanting to protect short term jobs of locals is a good thing, but not at the expense of global well-being.