2019-04-15 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – April 15, 2019 that you’d be flexible enough to take into consider the traffic flow. The other question I had is part of Grayson’s question because I come from the Hamakua Coast. I don’t know how many of the gulches constantly run but those that do run – are the natural resources that we gather the opae, the small crayfish that we use for subsistence and I was wondering if you take that into consideration – those gulches that are constantly flow that the chemical use on the land is not seeping into those waterways. I would appreciate that if you could come and give us a report that if your finding of the gulches that are naturally flowing, you know, most of the time, not just when there’s heavy rains, but most of the time...that some testing be done. It’d be just a good, you know, partnership that...you can have with use, cause, you know, it’s our natural resources we want you to protect. Thank you GC: I will definitely take that back with me. I think that testing can be done fairly simply but that’s not my expertise but I will definitely look into it. I’m not sure if how – that was the first part of your question – oh, the hours, um, if I can just talk to that. The Pepeekeo community, where the plant is, is quite strict about trucks after hours. So they only want trucks arriving daylight hours, I believe it’s 6:00 to 6:00. Six am to six pm, so that does confine it a bit so that, you know, it wouldn’t – to me it would it right – it would make sense if it was done at night but I think there are restrictions on that, but, I... NP: Those aren’t really GMAC issues, I think. BKK: You state in the beginning that you guys had a hunting club. GC: Not at the moment... BKK: Not at the moment... GC: I established and managed all the Hamakua plantations for about twenty years and in that period we did have a hunting club – all the – the community had a hunting club. We allowed access onto the land and that worked very well. There wasn’t a problem. Any, you know, any unresolved problems in Kau, um, I talked to quite a few hunters and they go mostly through the plantation not in the plantation itself, but they go out of Pahala Town and they go through the plantation up into the forest reserve where there seems to be much greater hunting, um, and that access in and out has worked quite well, so it can be on an individual basis and it does have to be, I think, as Teresa said, um, something that’s worked out with the landowner and ourselves and the local community. BKK: I want to open up one last question, so... Anybody? No? OK. Well, thank you so much for coming in today. I appreciate that. 24