2019-04-15 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – April 15, 2019 Leo: Not one time use but, sometimes the wire part – this one – cause the pigs drag the wire – run around when he get caught – so sometimes the wire go like this and pig have a tension – this part is gonna be sometimes real bad you have to replace this part but the other – this part – is nothing to repair – this one too. It’s not one-time use – you can use long time. Many times. NP: Why does the Japanese government want to eradicate all the wild pig? Leo: A lot of farmers, so, ah... \[Speaking in Japanese\] yeah, that’s the reason – the pigs eat lots of vegetables – the farmer’s vegetables that’s why. So one year, five hundred million dollars will be for the wild pig for the whole of Japan, yeah. TN: He’s talking about agriculture loss? Leo: Yes. BKK: Is there any other questions? AA: Abraham, District 5. Sorry about the pause but, I just, personally I just don’t think, you know, there’s a lot of loss with pigs and stuff like that – but it’s – I don’t like saying that they’re a problem because they’re such a valuable resource for our Island, especially, you know, there’s a lot of people that hunt in the mountains and in the farms as long as the farms are accessible to the hunters and they, um, that’s mainly how their – a lot of people that’s their main food source and some they make smoked meat, they make sausages amongst other things and they sell ‘em and that’s how they make their income so personally, I don’t like to say that it’s a problem and that’s basically why I had that long pause cause I had to figure it out of what really to say. So as far as that – that’s why – it’s a problem toward the agriculture industry, yeah, we see it all over, we see it on the mainland, we see it in Japan – see it all over the world – but everyone seems to forget that’s still a valuable resource especially for our Island – we get – at times there’s where the ships stop coming and our shelves go bare if we, you guys all know, if they take away our game and our resources what is there gonna be left? What is there gonna be left for the rest of the communities out here if you guys – if the ships stop coming – that’s what everybody says but nobody can give a valuable answer. Just last month the shelves were going bare... TN: This is why we have GMAC – to protect our natural resources. We use our wild boars, our wild pigs as food for our tables and we want to protect our wild resources and, um, as much as a problem that they are to private farmers or private residents we try our best to capture them and use them as much as we can to feed our families. Thank you. 6