Every day, I’m scouring the Internet for land use and environmental news from around the state and around the world that means something for us here in Hawaii. Noteworthy today: birds could change football schedule and the Superferry’s early struggles.

  • Kauai leaders are meeting today to decide whether to move football games from Friday nights to Saturday afternoons to save threatened birds who struggle with the bright lights, Hawaii News Now reports.

  • Hawaii Superferry boasted record ridership in the summer of 2008 but was already shorting the state on its fees, an Associated Press investigation reveals.

  • A Hawaii County Council committee delayed action on a bill to discourage aquarium fish export, according to West Hawaii Today.

  • Kekaha has hosted eight meetings and conducted a town-wide survey, but residents still have not reached a consensus on how to use money they receive from the Kauai County Council for hosting the island’s only landfill.

  • A plan to truck garbage to the Kona side of the Big Island instead of expanding Hilo’s landfill has stalled, West Hawaii Today reports.

  • A federal advisory group says Hawaii’s longline fishermen should use a different kind of hook so they don’t hurt or kill a rare dolphin species.

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