2019 07-30 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawai’i Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – July 30, 2019 pools – restoring the anchialine pools and, of course, you know, having the fish populations are recovered. So that’s what I wanted to share with the group of what’s happening. We – the Nature Conservancy is the agency that’s conducting the surveys so they did from 2009 when they started doing the – before the closure surveys and they’re gonna continue doing the surveys every year with looking like maybe at five years we’ll have something to share with the public. Any questions? JO: What is the extent of the marine reserve there at Kaupulehu? JK: The south boundary is Kukio Bay – the Kikaua Point at the Kukio Resort and it goes all the way north to Kalaemano and that’s at the boundary of Kiholo. JO: All the way up to Kiholo... JK: All the way. Kiholo is the boundary where the state park - goes up to that. JO: Thank you. BKK: With the progress – do you think that there’ll be a possibility for it to open up sooner than the ten year proposed plan? JK: That’s something that could be a possibility. As the surveys are conducted and the findings from that. BKK: And you said that Nature Conservancy is the one that is the primary... JK: Yes, they’re the primary. Aquatics Resources is the division who helped to push this measure... BKK: ....people making surveys. Management… JK: Yes, the management part. So DLNR manages that area and the enforcement – DLNR enforcement enforces the rules for that place. BKK: Are there areas that the department or Nature Conservancy is gonna try to utilize that same style of management? JK: They’re working with several other – a couple other communities. Milolii and Hookena at this time. BKK: Thank you. TN: Did Nature Conservancy do the initial study before it became a marine reserve? 3