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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting
<br />Minutes – March 21, 2016
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<br />?: Let him finish… State your name – jump in – I’ll help you…
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<br />David: Excuse me my name is David, I dealt with you earlier. What uncle just said
<br />is like on the spot. This is our lives, yeah? You get a pay check out of this,
<br />right? So – like when you guys come to these meetings, you guys got to
<br />be more open minded and actually listen.
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<br />D: OK. I’m sorry if, you don’t \[unclear\].
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<br />David: That’s the least you can do. You guys, you guys have like a little giggling
<br />joke between the two of you guys – which is fun – whatever – but we’re
<br />not getting paid for this, you know, we’re dealing with this. Just remember
<br />that.
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<br />TL: All right, I have a comment on – along those lines too, which, um, I don’t
<br />know whether it’s Molokai or rural Hawaii or the Big Island here where,
<br />um, it’s estimated we get anywhere from a ½ a million pounds or more of
<br />game, ah, that are harvested. Molokai and there was a study done or a
<br />survey done where 40% of their meals are, you know, from subsistence
<br />resources, you know, hunting, fishing, you know, back yard gardens and
<br />this sort of thing, ah, what this gentleman just said here is absolutely true
<br />of the Big Island, um, hunting and fishing is part of the economy, ah, their
<br />economy – many of them need these lands and the decisions that DLNR
<br />makes without taking them into consideration has a real affect upon the
<br />economy, ah, here and this is why you, you know, are having to deal with
<br />some of these things a little bit and may be uncomfortably at moments,
<br />but, but it is a reality that, you know, we need to and this idea of taking
<br />comments, um, you know, comments need to be addressed, I mean, it just
<br />– the environment is one thing – the birds are one thing – and I don’t think
<br />there’s a single hunter in here who wants to see those birds gone – not a
<br />one – I can probably say that, ah, with extreme confidence, but, at the
<br />same time they don’t want to see their animals gone – at the same time
<br />they want to have sustainability and, you know, we’d like to see DLNR
<br />work towards – again with that commission – and which is a question that
<br />we posed to you – how do you see yourselves working with that
<br />commission – when it gets up and running.
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<br />D: I don’t really know what the exact \[unclear\] the commission would be but,
<br />you know, Jim runs the wildlife program and they’d be interacting.
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<br />?: I would envision that they would work, ah, stay in close communication
<br />with the game, our game coordinator and work every month every time
<br />there’s an issue. They’d work through – they’d have – they’d put together
<br />these committees that you were suggesting for the rule change, for
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