2015-07-20 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes —July 20, 2015 X. Commissioners Report by District District 1, WC: For the public's information, I did have a sit down with John (Pohemius,) couple months ago —these guys are trying their best to try and help provide more of a quality hunt for everybody. Some things that are gonna get changed may not please everybody but I think as a whole this — it's more active than we've ever had — that I've ever seen with Pohakuloa. I feel we need to try and help them as much as we can to be supportive of what they are doing like Bryan was saying 5, 6 open, you have 80 guys in there or a hundred guys a day so there probably gonna be a time when there's a limit to who can be in each particular area at a time and that's not because they don't want everybody to have a chance in there — but if you think about it, it should make your day, it should make your experience better up there if you're not around very pile of rocks you bumping into a different hunter. And that's basically —what I get from these guys is that, you know, their hands are tied, just as much as the rest of us as far as the actual game enhancing and management and we all know those battles. I'd like the public to know that they're trying as much as they can and we need to thank them and the Colonel for as much as they have provided so far and I'm really optimistic and happy that things are happening the way it is. Thank you. District 8 — M. Bartell, none District 3 — R. Kohatsu said he received a question from Mel Tanaka — about bird hunting —there was in the Saddle Road mitigation plan something toward the idea of adding bird hunting areas inside of Puumali mitigation area and he mentioned something about Kaohe as well, although information was not found. DOFAW has in its new admin rules - In the new booklet there is a section for that pertaining to Puumali which they are working on delineating areas where bird hunting will be allowed in the next season. No information was found regarding Kaohe. District 4 N. Pogline — asked about holding a open public meeting in her district where folks could come and voice their concerns. BCH said, she could as long as she is careful about not stressing an opinion that's only hers versus the entire body— and especially the Mayor. And also must report back to GMAC the results of the public meeting. District 2, D. "Ike" Yoshina, just a comment - followed up on the PONC process regarding the surveying of the access. Two ways to handle it, one to nominate the property to PONC and go through the process or second, if the access is already dedicated that the committee will just do the survey as part of theirjob but in this particular case we need to find out if what we heard as a statement made 2-3 meetings ago is in-fact, fact and if indeed it has been agreed upon by 18