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Hawai’i Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting <br />Minutes – July 30, 2019 <br /> Like your group – people from your group. <br /> <br />TN: Yes. Now, you said – back in 2015 there was a mass coral bleaching event? <br /> <br />JK: Yes. <br /> <br />TN: Was that due to over fishing? <br /> <br />JK: That was – could be – it was a combination of temperature rising and that <br />was - affected throughout the whole State. Even Keaukaha they had the <br />bleaching noticed there too. <br /> <br />BKK: Was it more significant in that area for the bleaching – in Kaupulehu? <br /> <br />JK: Yes. because there’s some unreal populations of coral there... <br /> <br /> You know you get some coral heads like big like this table and you see the <br />bleaching hit that and that’s something old and ancient and... <br /> <br />BKK: Yes, if I remember correctly I think there was a shelf – maybe about a half a <br />mile out... <br /> <br /> ...and I remember seeing some sort of form of bleaching in that but it’s hard to <br />say cause it’s continuing. <br /> <br />JK: Yes. <br /> <br />BKK: So it sounds like it’s just a mixture of things. <br /> <br />JK: Yes. It’s still signs of bleaching but there’s some signs of recovery. <br /> <br />TN: When you said there’s slow recovery still and there’s still hope – what <br />recovery of what species...the coral? <br /> <br />JK: Of the coral, yes. <br /> <br />TN: What about the species of fish... <br /> <br />JK: That’s just looking at... <br /> <br />TN: Isn’t that a slow recovery... Or when you’re talking about slow recovery was <br />that just pertaining to coral? <br /> <br />JK: Coral – but even the fish. It’s just slow recoveries because right now it was <br />because it was because that’s just a short term survey... <br /> <br />6 <br /> <br /> <br />