title: Edward Yataro Hosaka
text: # Edward Yataro Hosaka
  
  Edward Yataro Hosaka (1906 - 1961) was an American botanist who specialized in identifying plants of the Hawaiian Islands. His 1935 University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa masters thesis was entitled 'A Floristic and Ecological Study of Kipapa Gulch'. He authored Sport Fishing in Hawaii published in 1944 which was republished in 1973 as Shore Fishing in Hawaii.
  
  