2019-10-29 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – October 29, 2019 MH: Travelling will take prior approvals – let me just start with that – so you would need approval from the Mayor for that so, yes, I think that you should start with teleconferencing as your first option, um, the motion, I mean I – what would the specific action be for the Commission. NP: I don’t think we need a motion we just need to find out some information. MH: Maybe just assign it to a committee. NP: We’ll just put that on hold Teresa? And we’ll make that motion later when we’re clear. TN: It’s just something to think about because what I hear from Ryan is that we need a body over there in order to be heard. If it’s just him communicating it doesn’t mean they take us seriously but if we have a body over there they may take us seriously, especially if we need the two bills that we’re trying to put together and the House – the HCR 22 bill to go through is something that we need to be a presence and yes, you know, let’s do teleconference – Ryan – what do you need from us for them to be serious enough to have a part of your meeting through the teleconference – what will it take for them to take us seriously that we want to be part of your meeting. RK: I guess I’ll request and see where it goes. What would really help is on the agenda items that a heavy Big Island contingent would have such interest in it to want a testifier or be there or listen to it. Um, and let me elaborate something interesting on that – so since my time on the State Game Management Advisory Commission it’s no surprise, I think, to anyone here – the priorities and the way, ah, hunters are on the different islands are very different so in not so many words – I would – the whole reason why you guys have a county GMAC here and the whole reason why even have a state one is because a lot of hunters realize that on the trajectory that we’re going or the way that the DLNR manages game is to just let us kill whatever we can. If we somehow wipe ‘em all out on our own we become eradicators – they don’t care – so it’s kinda, you know, it’s self-defeating toward the hunters’ future or the hunting program future – that’s how Big Island guys think – that’s how maybe Maui and Kauai guys think – but something really interesting is the folks on Oahu generally don’t have as much – I’m talking in real general terms which I hate doing but just hear me out here – the folks on Oahu generally don’t have as much public hunting opportunities so they bite at any possible opportunity they get and in that sense there is no thought toward the resource or how you’re managing game there – they just want to go hunting – they just want – in short – just kill stuff – go get something. Well, the Department resides on Oahu – all the leadership resides on Oahu – all they see is that Oahu – their interests or how they prioritize what they want to do and I would say that, in general, the Big Island hunting community is different from that but they want to treat us the same way, so, I mean, no BS – like literally the 13