Conflict has surrounded Hawaiʻi's commercial marine aquarium fishery since its inception in the late 1940s. In 2019, the Hawaiʻi Supreme Court requested that an environmental impact statement (EIS) analysing the ecological and cultural impacts of Hawaiʻi's marine aquarium fishery be completed for Hawaiʻi Island (Big Island) and Oʻahu. The costs and benefits associated with the fishery and their distribution across stakeholder groups was however not addressed in the EIS. This paper presents a cost-benefit based analysis of four policy scenarios using existing secondary data for Hawaiʻi's marine aquarium fishery. From the analysis, a state-wide collection ban was the option that yielded positive annual net benefits and negatively impacted the fewest stakeholders. In contrast, the EIS recommends ten permits for fishing off the coast of Big Island be issued.

自1940年代后期成立以来，冲突一直笼罩着夏威夷的商业海洋水族馆渔业。夏威夷最高法院于2019年要求完成一份环境影响声明（EIS），以分析夏威夷海洋水族馆渔业对夏威夷岛（大岛）和瓦胡岛的生态和文化影响。但是，EIS并未解决与渔业相关的成本和收益及其在利益相关者群体中的分配。本文利用夏威夷海洋水族馆渔业现有的二手数据，对四种政策方案进行了成本效益分析。根据分析，在全州范围内禁止征收是一种选择，可以产生正的年度净收益，并对最少的利益相关者产生负面影响。相比之下，