2021-05-18 Game Management Advisory Commission Mintues

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check, and other function in check to keeping the coral a better fighting chance at rebounding and ultimately improving the resiliency of coral reefs from coral bleaching and other impacts. So, again ultimately, we want to protect the resources, but also, we want to support fisheries, because that is another important function that we do as a division we want to support fisheries and balance with also managing protecting our healthy resources and eco system. This is just a quick shot of the species that we kind of discuss like proposing size limits, bag limits, seasons and so on, including urchins, which all play a key role in breeding and maintain resiliency. So, this is just a snap shot of the species we have been discussing over the past several months. So, we had our whole series of scoping meetings as I have mentioned, starting from November all the way to December last year across the State, so each district office, held 2 scoping session for the public. We had a total of 196 participants across these session, 200 written comments. So, there is a lot information and a lot of feedback that we received so in this process of compiling all of this and summarizing it and hopefully presenting that and sharing that back to the public. We initially wanted to do that, earlier in the year, but, we also, had our 30/30 core team we actually held a bunch of focus group sessions and received a lot of feedback, from those as well, so it kind of pushed everything back because, we wanted to include all of that and the feedback as well and we are going to sharing it back and we are planning for our next round of scoping this June, just to share back and also to incorporate and address all the issues and concerns and the oppositions you know what we are proposing and share and propose some revised rules and strategies based on what we gathered and input we received. So, just a reminder, we are really in the early stage of this process. Again we going through that stage of gaining input, feedback and summarizing, and processing that, sharing that and involving the community So this is where we are, throughout the whole thing and it is a lengthy process into Law, and we have to go through a bunch of steps. So again we are in the initial phase, so a lot of things and everything we proposed --everything we are talking about is lot still just discussion at this point. So there is a lot ways you can be in the loop and be in 17