Although aquaculture can be found in various forms throughout traditional world cultures, no other race developed the sophistication as Hawaiians. This brackish water formed a productive biological environment highly conducive t o fish production. A sand bar, coastal reef or land mass enclosed this pond.
Fishponds are efficient biological food producing aqua communities.
A complex food network of numerous interelated food chains occur. Water circulation brought tidal flows with nutrients and ebbs cleansed the pond of debris. It takes 1000 pounds of phytoplankton to produce 100 pounds of fish.