2022_07_19 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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commission members that are here right now but from our predecessors, right, so there are vacancies on Maui County and also on West Side Hawaii Island. To apply go on to the state DLNR website and you go look under Boards and Commissions and you sent in your application. There are those that applied that I know – they’ve been waiting over a year – there’s some kind of hold up that was brought up – the question was brought up at that GMAC meeting, we’re just waiting for a response – I reached out to our legislators and stuff to call the Governor’s office and see where’s this hold up and where’s this blockage to get those applications filled and there’s no response yet from that too, so, you know, if you guys like apply, right now is Maui County and there’s West Side of Big Island, right, Kona side, that’s the two vacant positions – other than that everything else is filled up. OK, moving on… AM: Mahalo. BL: Brian Ley– District 4. Hey I just wanted to say is we’ve had past board members and chairmen that didn’t hunt or fish but were just very adamant for the outdoor community that has seen big supporters so, you know, I just don’t want to close the door on everybody ‘cause we have people that don’t hunt and don’t fish who love our game animals and put their heart and soul into this too. Anybody that’s for the game animals we would love to see. We would rather have a position not be open ‘cause if we don’t have a quorum we’re not going anywhere so we would rather, you know, we’ve got to have the spots filled regardless, of course, we’d want a hunter first but if we can’t find anybody we’ll take anybody just to keep quorum, so, I appreciate everybody’s interest and output today. AA: Moving to TJ. Some kind of background noise coming from your side. Please continue. TJ: Yeah, how’s it going everybody… You know, basically, I wanted to talk about Hog Stop \[unclear\] support of it and the reason why I’m not in support of it is because, you know, the environmental impact statements I’ve tried to find everything I could online – I never seen any environmental that was done here in Hawaii. If you search, you look – you won’t find it. \[Technical problems\] TJ: OK, when I look at the – when I’m trying my hardest to find the environmental impact statements regarding this product and you won’t find it – it’s not out there. I’ve called the company directly – they don’t even have it. I called Texas, I spoke to some of the guys out there for using it, and surprisingly where this product was created, the farmers out in Texas don’t even want to use it because of the impact that it has on the cattle, you know, we’re not just talking hogs, we’re talking everything that is able to give birth to an animal. We’re talking about birds that can lay eggs, it impacts everything, you know? And then the cultural aspect – there’s not a cultural impact statement that was made either. How does that affect the Hawaiian people that look at Kamapuaa as the fertility god and how ironic that this product is like an attack on our culture. Some of us take that stuff seriously, more than other people in the world and, you know, for us it’s like that’s our life, that’s our blood, that’s our lifeline and, when I look at Hog Stop it’s counterproductive anyway, you know, these people who are using this Hog Stop to prevent pigs from coming to their property – which is ultimately what they want – it’s not gonna stop them from coming – you’re feeding the Stop to hogs – they just gonna keep coming and, so, they got to understand that it’s not gonna stop the pigs from coming so it’s counterproductive. It’ll stop them from reproducing. I just don’t want to be redundant in what 3