After snorkling in Hawaii in a few locations on Oahu, I think that it is a very appropriate fish for a state fish, even though the whole notion of state thisses and state thats kind of irritates me.
In New York, our state fish actually comes from Illinois and is most famous for being found in Arkansas.
I's post a picture of our state bird, but it'd get removed by the moderator.
I'm throwing caution to the wind here.....
The bluebird was adopted as the State bird in 1970.