Married couple Stephen Howard and Yukako Toriyama were ordered to pay the civil fines after a Sept. 15 incident that involved the two on a boat fishing within the West Hawaii Regional Fishery Management Area. The DLNR said that Howard, an aquarium collector, had dropped off two women — one being Toriyama — to dive in the area to collect fish. Personnel from DLNR’s Division of Conservation and Resources Enforcement ordered Howard back to shore, leaving the two women in the water. The missing women “prompted a multi-agency marine search and rescue operation” that was then called off “after the women were spotted late in the afternoon, with their dive gear, at a Kona-area gas station.”