2022_07_19 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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everything – like we used to do back in the day. After all, the lauholes come out nice and healthy, yeah, no more that smell on the meat and, you know, I think coming forward with a solution would be best, ah, so that we can end up trumping these guys when they want to just throw something at us like this Hog Stop what has no EIS done or EA or, you know, we got to be part of the solution and let’s try and get everybody get together so we can take a count in different areas of how much pigs – so much, you know, like – just an idea of how much there is but as long as we tag ‘em and we can start doing our own data collecting I think that in itself speaks volumes and, yeah, let’s try work out something in that effect. Mahalo hauoli… Gerard De Lima: From Hilo, Hawaii. So, I mean, everybody over here – most of these guys – they’re all professionals at what they do to feed their families. The problems that we have is because these people are limited to where they can access and what they can access. So if you put limitations on what people can gather and then you feed pigs in residential neighborhoods and create problems and then try to come up with a solution by getting rid of the pigs that people survive off – I mean, I’m a pig farmer. I’m a professional, you know what I mean? Like when it comes to pigs – this is what I do. I trap pigs – but the whole problem is you cannot create one problem and then come up with a solution instead of trying to come up with a better problem – I mean a better solution to the bigger problem. You cannot just create problems in feeding animals and not expecting problems, you know what I mean like for your neighbors, for yourself, for everybody else, so, yeah, I’m against Hog Stop. Letting you guys deal with them. Alvin Ainoa: For my kids \[unclear\] HogStop – negative – my kids not going be \[unclear\]. Ashton \[unclear\] I represent for the Island of Oahu, Waianae, I represent Big Island too and the hunters and gatherers and I am against Hog Stop 100%. Kanoe Tan: Aloha, my name is Kanoe Tan and I’m against the Hog Stop, Mahalo. I’m from Puna District. Charlene Merseberg: I am from Holualoa and I am against Hog Stop. I have another party here that wants to testify too. Britt Merseberg: I’m Charlene’s daughter. I am also against Hog Stop just because we rely – a lot of ohana rely on local game from providing for our deep sea voyaging canoe like Makalii to go and feed our deep sea voyagers to perpetuate Hawaiian culture and it would really be a loss if we don’t have our wild game to hunt. Newt Windward: I’m just against Hog Stop. Pretty much that’s food for plenty people and it’ll \[unclear\] not just one thing \[unclear\]. That’s it. Thank you. Debbie Ann Mariani: 8