2019 05-14 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – May 14, 2019 the Kau District – that’s how small it is and we don’t need to be compared by hunters or ideals or biologists from someplace else. We on this Island should be running our own island. These resources we had before we had Statehood – Statehood came in ’59 – we supposed to be controlling and running our own resource protection, environmental protection – it all should be coming from this Fish and Game because there is no other department that deals with that in the County. The fish and game was supposed to take the lead in preserving forests, its environment, its species and the hunting and fishing situation on this Island. DLNR always had a bag habit of coming to every island and telling everybody what they want and we have to yield to that every time and they’re not from here – but we had to yield to their ideals and their ways so this is important for us to create this organization or this game management. Too bad it got tangled up in political people’s minds and attitudes but it was all with the heart of every hunter about taking care of this Island. Its future, its resources. We did a lot of study, man, if you guys talk to Civil Defense – what do we got on a disaster – two week of food? Go do your homework and find out how important our game is and our future for that game and the protection of that game. Your position as this GMAC was to make rules for our Island – to challenge DLNR – they’re not supposed to come here and tell us what to do. We are citizens who pay taxes to a local government – this government’s responsible for its people who pay the taxes and that’s this Island. So you should be making rules and regs and getting it through this County Council in support of making ordinance – making moratoriums on the actions of DLNR and more protection about our resources – the palila bird argument – gosh, you know what that was? Early Seventies with 20,000 mouflons – what you got? Six hundred now? The birds went increase? What’s wrong with this Commission – making an inquiry about this whole palila bird – the palila bird situation and start preserving our mouflons. And why not apply these mouflons to these rare unique species that it is. Do some study. There’s no other place that has mouflons but this Island. This commission should be putting some kind of protection status for this mouflon and challenge the palila bird – they never got more birds – they killed a lot of mouflon, though, but they never get anymore birds – so that argument that was used to protect these birds and killing all the mouflons is already – should be reevaluated – it don’t apply today to what they used back then in the Seventies. This Commission got to be more strong about it – and dealing with fish too. You can’t have DLNR come out and make decisions on how we take care of our fish on this Island. How aquarium fishermen get permits or don’t get permits. That’s the responsibility of you folks. This is the responsibility of this commission – to start looking out for the environmental things that comes with this Island way before you guys came, right, I’m speaking as one Hawaiian that really got abused and if you lived in Hawaii you know dat – no Hawaiians in any of your homelands telling any of you people what to do but you all over here telling us how to live, where to live, how to practice, how we should survive – you should be embarrassed. We one Hawaiian – we should be telling you how you should act and how you 3