2016-05-23 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – May 23, 2016 1. Department of Land and Natural Resources – Joey DeMello, Acting Program Manager JD: I’m Joe DeMello, I’m the Acting Wildlife Program Manager for East Hawaii. TL: Acting? JD: Acting still… TL: OK, so, um, I understand that you were – volunteered for this kind of at the last minute, so… JD: Yes… TL: I know you have a little bit of a background of some of the things that we have been discussing, but maybe not all of it so – do you mind questions from the public as we go through this? JD: I will try, but like you said, I was just notified today that I needed to come here for Jim, who apologizes for not being able to come by and I know, obviously, from background, ah, about what the idea is, but I don’t know a whole lot about the bill, I, I have a few answers and I’ll try to answer all the questions. TL: We have copies of the bill here. I’d be happy to share them with you. And of the bill, ah, there are two relevant parts that, ah, concern a lot of the hunters as we went into this. One of them was – who is going to be a commissioner? And, so, what does it take to qualify as a commissioner and since we have like copy – to paraphrase it – a commissioner needs to be a, um, a hunter license in the State of Hawaii and he shall have a leadership experience in working directly with local hunters or shooting organizations and then at least one member shall have knowledge of experience and expertise in the area of native Hawaiian cultural practices and no more than three can be members of any government organization – I think federal, state or whatever, so that, that is the background – so the question we have going in is 2) DLNR is going to be running this program, is that correct? JD: Correct. TL: OK. That was correct, right? JD: Correct, yeah. 3