Editor’s note: Questions about stay-at-home orders can be submitted to tinyurl.com/TFIQ-A and The Garden Island staff will do our best to find answers. We will continue to share answers throughout the week. Contact the state Department of Health or your physician for official COVID-19 symptoms and steps to take if you think you have the virus.
Q: Are we allowed to solo shoreline fish? Pick opihi?
A: If you are fishing or hunting for subsistence, which is defined as “primarily to feed the family and relatives of the individual,” that is allowed solo and with proper social-distancing measures. However, recreational fishing is not.
Q: Can homeowners continue to drop off green waste at the green waste transfer stations?
A: As of Thursday, all green waste sites are fully operational. The mayor’s emergency rule No. 5 states that refuse transfer stations are for essential use only and should be used mostly for waste subject to “rotting and health and safety concerns.”
The county’s website states, “There is a small portion of the public that has opted out of refuse collection, therefore their use of the refuse transfer stations to dispose of home-generated solid waste is expected.
Q: We have a flight to move to Kapa‘a on May 1. We know we’d have to go directly to our house and stay there for 14 days. If the flight isn’t canceled, are there ways to get food delivered to the house?
A: The Kaua‘i Chamber of Commerce partnered with the county in creating kauaicovid19.com, which includes a guide to help residents locate food resources on the island. This interactive site lists local restaurants, grocery stores and nonprofits.
For grocery delivery, there’s Darrell Distribution that offers local meat delivery every Saturday; Malama Auctions, which takes online orders from a virtual farmers’ market; Leong’s Meat House, which has grass-fed beef, poke and hot plates for delivery, pickup and drive-through; and many more restaurants on the island that you can order prepared meals from.
Keep checking that site for updates and additional resources.
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Sabrina Bodon, public safety and government reporter, can be reached at 245-0441 or sbodon@thegardenisland.com.
