- More than half of the U.S. exclusive economic zone is in the Pacific Islands, which include Hawaii, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, and the U.S. Minor Outlying Islands.
- Hawaii's coral reefs generate more than $172 million in reef tourism and recreation, aquarium trade, and commercial fishing revenue.
- More than 20 percent of fish species in Hawaii are endemic, meaning they are found nowhere else on Earth.
