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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting
<br />Minutes – March 21, 2016
<br />Jim: ….and I’m there to make sure that it does.
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<br />TL: Let me just say that for myself and I don’t know if I speak for others here
<br />but I do speak for myself, ah, I’m encouraged by the – what you folks have
<br />been doing recently, um, I’m encouraged by the fact that you answer your
<br />phone, you write us letters, you give us – you communicate with us –
<br />Dave Smith has been, you know, the short time he’s been there he’s been
<br />excellent in communicating with us and I am personally very encouraged
<br />and I appreciate what you’re doing and the tone that you have changed,
<br />actually, ah, it was not present before and so…
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<br />?: Yeah, let’s get a process where we can start talking about these things
<br />informally and then, you know, you know, it’s like, it’s gotten so difficult to
<br />do rules – it’s you know bog down and process and there’s always
<br />technicalities but it shouldn’t be that hard – it’s not that difficult to do rules
<br />– and so if there’s things that people agree on we ought to be able to
<br />make changes relatively easily – it shouldn’t be a four or five year process
<br />to do rules.
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<br />TL: If you talk…
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<br />MB: This is Mark in Kona, you know, I agree 100%. It shouldn’t be four or five
<br />years…
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<br />?: Right, absolutely…
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<br />MB: It shouldn’t be seven, eight, or nine… And, um, ah, you know, Jim, I look
<br />forward, um, you putting together a team, right? Of people outside DLNR
<br />that can work on this specific issue, right, and, I mean, I’ve hunted here for
<br />umpteen decades and the bag limit for birds is never changed, right –
<br />drought – no drought, you know, it’s, um, it’s not the way to manage
<br />game, right? It’s not and, um, yeah, the past is the past, but for a lot of us
<br />and a lot of the animosity here and the people stacked up in the room is
<br />the past is a predicator of the future, right? Tom commented on, hey, guys
<br />return phone calls, we’re getting maybe a hunting commission going
<br />statewide – all good – but, you know, um, that’s what people believe, you
<br />know, it happened to us before, show us why it will change. And Jim,
<br />welcome aboard – I’m glad you got the position – but, you know, what? I’d
<br />round up another two or three guys from each island – get some going –
<br />and let’s get these hunting rules on the move because they’re archaic and
<br />the process by which we can change them, ah, needs to be revised, right?
<br />And if that takes a bill – then we draft a bill and we introduce it next year to
<br />streamline this whole process, right?
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<br />?: Yeah, one really tough thing is that, um, I don’t know if I’m looking at you
<br />or I’m looking at where the camera is but, ah, I’m looking at you on the
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