2020-02-11 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – February 11, 2020 Hamakua, to see what they can do at the legislative level because really we don’t know where to turn, I mean, plus too with the water – with the river ways being illegally diverted – we don’t have enough pressure to take it out, you know, lucky we had this big water this last few weeks because that literally had cleaned our beaches out, you know, and not to mention Bay Front has the highest staff levels in the nation due to illegal diversions from our river so hopefully that big water went take majority of the, you know, staff – send it out – get rid of ‘em – maybe it cleaned it out – I hope so – but that’s dangerous because there’s so many different types of staff, you know, it’s even deadly to some point but, yeah, at the next meeting I’ll probably present facts that I tried to get before coming to this presentation but my shoreline fishing association meeting is not till March 1 where we can get the data and share with you guys – what kind fish are being caught – what we got data – maybe one count of opihi and aama crab because it is working – it is working, you know, one of the main things that I ask of the fishermen is when you leave if you go for opihis – don’t forget the next person – it’s not there to rape – try and throw back a sandwich bag of opihis somewhere else along the shoreline so we know they’ll grow there somewhere else, you know, along with the aama crab – same thing – and always try to make sure that these guys are aware of – you catch only what is in season, yeah, because back in the day – kapu aloha – you catch the fish that is not in season – punishable by death – but in my association the punishment will be you won’t be able for drive on the shoreline to go holoholo. You can go holoholo but you gonna have to walk long ways in with your equipment, you know, which most guys no like do, so that’s what I do out there at Pepeekeo and any questions? TN: Teresa – District 8 – Kona. I looked it up and it says pollutants stem from marine debris, sewage vessels – Department of Health – Clean Water Branch - have you gotten in touch with them. JMG: Yeah, but they haven’t gotten back in touch with me. TN: OK. So there was a tank vessel operator found guilty for illegal dumping of their bilge so if it is an illegal dump it’s something we can write and complain about but we need to – so if you have proof then – would you share it with us? JMG: OK, yeah, we definitely can. TN: Thank you Jearick... JMG: Thank you Auntie. AA: Any other questions? Good. Thank you. I’d just like to say – thank you for all your work you’re doing out there, you know, you \[unclear\] you never has that much members and now you getting more and more and you’re bringing 24