County: Maui
Site_Name: Pohoele or Pala'au Pond.
Island: Molokai
Traditional_District: Molokai
District: West Molokai
Ahupuaa: Palaau 1
Site_Function: O-Fish ponds
Complex: No
Tax_Map_Key: 5-2-11:4
State_Site_Number: 50-60-02-099
BM_site_number: 50-Mo-B04-003
Project_Number: 090
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Surveyor: Tomonari-Tuggle/Summers
Survey_Type: Recon. survey
Survey_Date: 1974
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Form_of_Ownership: Hawaiian Home Lands
Owner: Hawaiian Home Lands
Owner_Address: P.O. Box 198, Hoolehua, Hawaii, 96729
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SiteType: Pohoele or Pala'au Pond. Largest of Molokai fishponds; estimated between 200 and 500 acres. In 1909 Stokes found 27 lanes in it, all leading outward. Statewide Inventory, 1974, "Destroyed".
Bibliography: 69025, C.C. Summers, 1971, Molokai: A Site Survey, PAR 14, Site 99, p. 77, and figure 28, p. 76 17925, J.R. Cobb, Commercial Fisheries of Hawaiian Islands, Bulletin of U.S. Fish Comm., Vol. 23, pp. 381-499 67125, J.F. Stokes, 1911, Notes on Polynesian Fish traps and Ponds. Letter, BPBM. Statewide Inventory, 1974
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