2016-03-21 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – March 21, 2016 ?: ….and if you get rid of another food source like mongoose and rats and mice – what will the hawks and the owls eat then? ?: Birds… ?: Native birds? ?: Yeah. ?: Native birds… ?: The system in balance. It doesn’t mean nothing eats nothing. ?: You did play this or the Fish and Wildlife Service did off the coast of California – you got rid of the predator for that endangered fox – \[unclear\] pigs out – so the eagles started eating the foxes. ?: Umph… ?: So now you got in a one protected species eating another… ?: Great. ?: Do you folks figure all these things out – I think Tony has a – made a very good point. ?: Yeah, I mean, the thing is a lot these systems are so disrupted already that what happens is you end up having issues – for instance – we’re trying to reintroduce alala, right? And then the io are eating ‘em – so you got one endangered species eating another endangered species so what do you do now, you know? And, ah, I’ve done the same thing out at Kure Atoll we had a, ah, I forget what it was – it was an osprey or peregrine or something of – a bird of prey flew 1,200 miles out to the end of the northwestern Hawaiian chain and it was whacking some birds that were trying to get re-established – they were just starting out up there – I think it was Tristam’s storm petrels or something really rare – yeah – I can’t remember what it was, but anyway, but my thing was, like well he got here naturally and so we should just let it go through its cycle, you know, that’s kind of my thing. I don’t like to tamper with that stuff too much, if we can avoid it, but, yeah, you do have issues like that and now you’ve got a landscape – like before in a natural condition these landscapes – you don’t have all these endangered species. Everything’s kind of in balance, you know, there’s the predator and prey cycle and things are more robust. Now we’ve altered our landscapes and our population so much that, you know, we’re tinkering so much – that you just – sometimes you don’t know 19