2021-05-18 Game Management Advisory Commission Mintues

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Teresa: I haven't seen it in Hilo Flea market, I haven't seen it in Kona at their open market. When you go to Asian, all you see, are the fishes that we catch in their markets. When you say that there has been a demising of marine species and you are gonna blame we the fisherman by giving them bag limits or limits or size limits, slot limits, on what bases, do you base those things on? I'm a generational fisherman, my grandfather taught me, and that various parts of these islands are where the fishes are. Not the along entire circumference, of Moku O' Hawaii, is a fishing spot. Not every area is a fishing spot. We have voided areas, not because they have been overfished, but because they are not conducive to the environment of fishing to be in abundance. You don't have that in any of your previous scoping meetings. We have 63 fish ponds on the Island of Molokai, and the State is not helping the few fish ponds that are being revitalized, why isn't there a revitalization of the 63 fish ponds. We have fish ponds on this Island, why isn't the State putting a program out instead of bag limits, size limits, slot limits, or closures, or you know all the rules, and regulations that is almost virtually impossible to, um how do you say, um to protect your rules and why aren't we looking in this other direction of abundance that once upon a time that this Island population in Ancient time was over a million? We don't have that population on this Island and yet we are being informed that the marine species are being dwindled by overfishing. Which is not true. When the fish spawns, it spawns in the thousands, but yet we are being inform we are going to have bag limits, and slot limits. In your previous scoping meeting you haven't told us you are going to be responsible for the underlying issues, no one showed up at the development public meetings to say your project is going to contaminate our nearshore line areas or your golf course, like Brian had said, are going to contaminate our shoreline areas. You have a program right now at Four Season at Kaulupulehu that covers an area of 4.6 miles. North and South of the 4.6 miles is not a conducive area for fish to spawn, because the fresh water does not flow in those area, but it does flow in the 4.6 mile area, where there is an abundance and has always been our refrigerator for continuous fishing for all these 22