2016-05-23 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – May 23, 2016 TL: You have a question from Rick… RS: Yeah, Rick Shaney, Hakalau regular. I guess I’m curious what you see as the main role of this commission for the DLNR – how it’s gonna work. JD: Um… I don’t know – it goes back pretty similar to what the, ah, what we talked about years ago with the first commission that lasted for about a year and a half where the statewide commission will make recommendations – take the ideas from the community and make recommendations to the DLNR at whatever level – whether it’s to the board or to the, um, the division head – that’ll be through Dave Smith, um, so whether Chair Case or Dave Smith and then the DLNR takes those recommendations and looks into, um, their possibility of implanting… TL: \[Unclear\] the Hawaii Hunting Advisory Council? JD: Correct, yeah. RS: So it won’t be a regulatory agency \[unclear\] to approve or disprove the regulation \[unclear\]. \[Not speaking in mic\] JD: As far as I understand it’s an advisory only council. TL: Advisory… NP: May I say something? But the purpose of the commission mainly is to prevent and off-set the loss of public hunting areas and hunting opportunity, right, so I was wondering if – with the commission – the state commission - will the DLNR consider increasing hunting opportunities since so much has been off-set by eradication? JD: Um… NP: And fending and \[unclear\] for enclosure. JD: Yeah, um, I’m sure, but that is something that would have to be taken up directly with Dave Smith at that level. NP: Yeah. That is the purpose of it… JD: Right… NP: And that’s what is stated the purpose of it is… JD: Right. 7