2022_08_16 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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AG: I would like to put most of those things on the agenda – the boat ramp issue and colonial investment. SW: Which, I’m sorry. I think you would need to clarify. AG: Ah, Honaunau Boat Ramp – no swim zone would be one of them. And then, um, the Kona Estate Investment Subdivision that they’re trying to put in. SW: OK. So, I’m sorry, and I keep forgetting to say my name, it’s Sylvia Wang, Deputy Corporation Counsel, I think you need to clarify how it’s a subject matter for GMAC. So if you could read it back to I think it was the birds? AG: Yeah, so, it’s, the ahi birds they like to nest on cliff side and big structures – puus – and stuff like that. There is one big crack going right down the middle of that Estate that they’re trying to build on and it’s been a home for years for the birds. I mean all the fishermen in South Kona know it cause we all see the white bids circling and landing and that’s their main nesting and resting area is on that lava flow right there and that main puu. There’s one big crack there. SW: OK. I understand but just so that it can be still to be put on the agenda so what you want to discuss is the habitat of the birds in that area… AG: Yes… SW: ….the potential impact. AG: Yes. Also the marine life impact as well due to that new subdivision going in. But it’s all lava rock so the drainage is gonna seep more into the ground than it would in the more – like the upland areas. SW: Right so… I’m sorry, again, this is Sylvia Wang, Deputy Corporation Counsel. Do you want to enquire as to whether there was an environmental impact statement done for that? AG: Yes, yes… That would be awesome. SW: OK. AA: Abraham – District 5. Eh, Austin, do you know if – how’s the mammals in that area – is there any goats, pigs? AG: Ah, it’s heavily goat action in there, for sure. Lots of \[unclear\] pigs in that lava area on the northern side of their property is all pigs but mostly it’s all makai, yeah, so it’s all goat. 27