2020-02-11 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – February 11, 2020 DF: OK. Thank you. AA: Any other questions? TN: Thank you. a. Pepeekeo Shoreline Fishing Association, Chairman Jaerick Medeiros- Garcia, presentation on river, stream, and coastal issues related to fishing AA: Any other comments from the public? OK. Moving on to our second presenter which was supposed to be our first one – is Jaerick Medeiros-Garcia from Pepeekeo Shoreline Fishing Association. JMG: Mahalo, everyone. Thank you everybody for coming, participating in GMAC. Thank you, GMAC commissioners for having us and listening to us. Yeah, so I am the chairman for Pepeekeo – Makahanaloa – I’m Jaerick Medeiros- Garcia – I got to say we got the most issues right now out there in Pepeekeo – off of Pepeekeo Point and all that stuff. We created this fishing association because we were allowed to make an agreeing contract with the developer – Continental Pacific – who had developed the gated community down there next to Hu Honua, both sides of Hu Honua we have shoreline access. One side is gated so they give me a gate along Railroad, which is when you going down Sugar Mill Road you make a left at the old warehouse where they used to work on the cane trucks – you go all the way down to the banyan tree, make a right, there’s a huge gate there that I manage with a lock and my fishing association – most of the members is from within the community and adjacent communities. I have extended it out to the adjacent communities recently because the fact that Kolekole and Hakalau is not open. The fishermen that wants to go down there and fish they’re not being given access to it. So even though our contract states that the fishing association agreement is only for people from Pepeekeo – I have gone out on my own way to allow these guys because they don’t have access to the shoreline and so at this point I’m in the process of sitting down with Continental Pacific and re-doing the contract because we had extended it out to adjacent communities because a lot of them – fishermen from the country – they really depend on the shoreline to feed their families and if I could help in any way that would probably be the best way I could help them to go to one place that is secured – taken cared of – I probably got just about a little over 100 members now in our fishing association and at the same time probably about three years ago the fishing management program that I had created three years ago it started to work, you know, because I’ve been working on it hard since 2013 – once I seen bills at the legislation level trying to be introduced and passed into laws to where DLNR and entities to the state try to come in and say they going do research – they going gather data – next thing you know you end up like Hualalai where the shoreline is closed for ten years. Not 21