2019 06-25 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – June 25, 2019 ?: I don’t think county has any tracts big enough... TN: So who’s responsibility in managing the area then – if we’re looking to that state – is it something that we have to request for a hired position? IC: If you’re talking about like a sliding scale to manage game numbers like in like a take – I don’t mean to tell you how to do this but you’re getting into the weeds – you might want to just throw down questions but if you’re asking whose job it is to set limits, basically, it’s the state – it’s our job as the State Wildlife. JO: Would that be NARS? IC: No usually we – well they’d have driven their own limits in their areas. This is where I’m talking about land designation and the tricks there... JO: Yeah MC: To answer that question to my behalf – that’s where entities like my company would come in very, very handy because we do know livestock, we do know vegetation and we have a helicopter to take aerial counts and check out the vegetation from the air. 36.17 TN: Thank you, Mark. So, Ian, so this is where we look at the budget under DLNR to have such a program. IC: That takes counts of animals? TN: Sure,. I mean how are you gonna do game management... IC: We do take counts now. TN: OK. So if you do take counts – then how do we as hunters know that it’s time to bring the numbers down. IC: We don’t cause we don’t have a sliding scale for our ability to control bag limits. MC: Honestly, this is stuff that we all have to work on. TN: I’m confused. IC: This is part of what’s in that question. If you have – if your bag limit for – I’m just gonna use an example – Puuanahulu is two sheep – one goat – or vice versa per day – it’s set until you change the rules. That’s the statute. Until you change the bag limit – the only way... 25