2015-08-17 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – August 17, 2015 B. Castillo-Hall said that, board and community members expressed their concern about what rules are being followed in conducting our meetings. The meetings are informal but some kind of order needs to be in place so that the meetings run efficiently since a lot of people attend and present and we would like things to flow easily so that we can accomplish all the business that we want to accomplish within the given time limits. It is important that everyone feels that they have an equal opportunity to comment and participate and their voice is heard by the commission members, as well as people in the community. Also, how to pass action or pass motions and get certain things done. It was suggested that either the whole board meets or have a committee - so that two people or more meet (commission members) and then report back to the entire board or the entire board can vote – discuss and then vote on what kind of rules. D. Ike Yoshida volunteered to chair the committee and Chair Lodge will assist. B. Castillo-Hall offered to meet as well. 3. Hawaii Conservation Convention – Recap by D. “Ike” Yoshina: Ike attended the twenty-third annual Hawaii Conservation Conference, th which was held August 3 - 6 at the University of Hawaii at Hilo. He was very impressed by what went on there. The conference was well planned, well executed. They’re very articulate and knew what they were talking about. The user portion of conservation was not well represented. Although there were some hunters in the audience at the conference, most of the research that was shared with the community was basically on the preservation side. Ike thought that given the tenor of the meeting, hunting, fishing user concerns have to be better organized so that it can be represented at these conferences. How do you do that? The populations that we have to deal with or work with are rugged individualists, who have very little time to waste on going to meetings and talking story and things like that. It’s a tough place but if we are going to have a voice at these conferences we have to organize ourselves. There is going to be a large IUCN – World Conservation Conference in Hawaii - September of next year – some major event – first time to be held in the United States. (Goggle to find out more details) 5