2020-02-11 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – February 11, 2020 AA: That one sound like we should oppose ‘em even more though. TY: Yeah, my concern with the firearms part, you know, that’s the Hawaii Firearms Coalition – I’m not too aware of hunting issues... Or what the views of the hunting community are. There’s HB 1862 prohibits DLNR for setting bag limits for game animals. So that passed, Environmental & Water and Land in the House. That one, I believe, the hunting community is opposed to when I looked through the testimonies. Ah, let’s see – the same is true for HB 1919 – that hit a deadline so... That’s for removing bag limits for pigs on Mauna Kea – that bill should be dead because of a deadline it didn’t meet. HB 1921 – hunting guides require written permission on private lands. I think that’s an administrative addition to a regulation where they need something in writing when they guide hunting on private land. HB 2042 hit a deadline also, remove bag limits for deer, goats and pigs – kinda similar to the other bill, ah, HB 1862 – one bill that came up for hearing today was, ah, SB 2417 – same as HB 2212, recognize game birds and mammals as a food source so that actually passed the committee with some amendments – I don’t know what the amendments are but that could strengthen protections on hunting rights in the future. I’m not too familiar with the other bills or positions. Another one – SB 2464 – noticed a lot of people were concerned with that – requiring single shot long guns for bird hunting for Mauna Kea, so, not too familiar with that area but, hunters were concerned with but, just to let you know there’s some deadlines coming up for some of these bills, basically, if a bill has two or more committees left or to have committee hearings for – th they’re gonna die on February 13 – this Thursday so like, for instance, if one bill has to still see Water & Land & Finance then, it will most likely die on Thursday, if not heard by then. AA: Abraham – District 5, Todd do you know –– do you know anything about the DLNR No Child Left inside Program? TY: Ah, shoot – these other bills I haven’t really looked through myself. AA: Yeah, I just seen it was highlighted - I just wanted to see if you’d do anything about that? TY: Yeah, it’s a – basically, trying to get kids outside of the house through recreation programs, I don’t know too much about it but it might be something for you to look at as far as hunting programs like Hunter’s Education and things like that. Yeah, along with that there’s Public Lands Day – Youth bill and some other ones you might look into. Yeah, since we’re going over that – there’s other bills of interest – there’s – well, I’ll talk about HB 1689 and its companion SB 2753 which prohibits manufacture and sale of animal and fur products that excludes taxidermy and a lot of the game mammals here in Hawaii – so I think they tailored that bill to avoid hunting issues with that one. 11