2021-05-18 Game Management Advisory Commission Mintues

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want to give them some time and space to protect them so there won't be sunscreen in the bay. A lot of sunscreen in the bay or people interfering with the gametes trying to settle on a good place. And so, our request to the County is to please afford us this time, because this is the only time for the next year that the cauliflower will spawn. And so with that the State and the County gave us this time for to rest Kahalu'u Bay for this special event. Do you have any questions of me? Abraham: Would it help if you guys had funding to repair the break wall. Or you guys would like to keep the break wall down, so that the water could flush. Flush the water more in and out better more clean water coming in and out or? Cynthia: What break wall?—Menehune wall? Abraham: right behind you, right backside of... Cynthia: Menehune wall was, is really a protection for the bay. You know, it protects the surf coming into the bay. If you have been in Kahalu'u, so many years, this particular wall and during high surf it protects the area but it is not as it was when, I was a young girl. So it's during over the years it has also been degraded the wall, but it still provides a barrier, so that we have a chance of not flooding the entire bay. If you look at Kahalu'u bay is really perpendicular to the sand, the water and the sand. So on high surf days you will have the water coming right into the pavilion and right on into the parking lot area. And so that wall is a protection for the bay as it is now. Abraham: My question is would the wall help you guys help protect the coral also? Cynthia: Will it protect the Coral? I would say so, I think because it protects the incoming tide, it will protect those babies. But you have to understand the coral reef itself is really a protection on its own to the threshold areas. So we need to look at taking care of our coral reef, so that they in turn can become stable enough to withstand that kind of serge. But, they also considered the rainforest of the ocean. These coral itself 29