2020-09-22 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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KS: So I’ll just give you numbers. If you have questions about the numbers I share – just ask. So we had area operations to remove animals in February 14 and 15, during that time we removed 46 total sheep… NP: Sheep? KS: Yeah, sheep. NP: From what area? KS: On Mauna Kea. So the first day - so generally what we do is we break it up by day. So the first day is normally kind of from Kilohana over to Hale Pohaku – kind of that area – so the south part of the mountain and then the second day we go on the other side to Puu Mali and kind of the northern portion of the mountain. So for the first day on that southern part of the mountain it was 33 total animals removed and for the second day it was 13. In February it was 46 sheep removed. We do a salvage operation where we’re on the ground and the guys shooting trying to gather as many sheep as they can and bring ‘em to people who have called – the public that have called in for a permit to salvage so on this – during this time in February we only salvaged 9 sheep. So it was five on the southern part of the mountain and four on the northern part of the mountain. So that was for February 29. NP: So that was February 14, 15 and 29… KS: February 14, 15, yeah, and then we went again in August 18, 19 and 20. So that was three days. We did the first day on the southern part of the mountain, the second day on the northern part and then the third day we came back to the southern part of the mountain. So I’ll just give you information by day. The first day we shot 22 males, 23 females and 2 juveniles for a total of 47 sheep. The second day it was 9 males, 20 females and 3 juveniles for a total of 32 sheep. And on the third day it was 8 males, 20 females, no juveniles for a total of 28 sheep removed. So for the whole – for all three days together it was 107 sheep removed and then salvaged – we salvaged 64 animals across those three days. And then we went again just earlier this month – we had – it was two days – so the first day on the southern part of the mountain – on that day we shot – sorry it was September 9 – we shot 17 males, 20 females and 4 juveniles – for a total of 41 sheep. And on the second day it was 3 males, 9 females, no juveniles for a total of 12 sheep. And so the total sheep taken in September was 53 and total salvaged was 30. So for the year – in the three operations that we removed animals there were 206 sheep taken with 103 salvaged. So that’s my update. NP: OK. Were there eradication efforts anywhere else besides Mauna Kea? KS: No. 10