2022_11_15 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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AA: OK, then. I'd like to make motion—Abraham — District 5— I'd like to make a motion to create a legislative committee to start investigating legislation to the beginning of the legislative season for 2023 in regarding to hunting, fishing and gathering rights. SW: OK. I think you need a little bit more scope in that—are you asking them to identify bills that affect hunting-gathering rights? AA: Yes. SW: OK. Just identifying bills not discussing each individual bill? AA: That's discussing each individual bill that's coming to— pertaining to hunting, fishing and gathering rights, yes. SW: I think that's too broad. I think you can do an initial PIG just identifying the different bills that are out there and then you'd have to do a separate group investigating each bill the Commission wants to go after. AA: OK. Let's do this again. I'd like to make a motion to form a legislative committee to investigate the legislative 2023 to investigate bills that pertain to hunting, fishing and gathering rights. I think I just said the same thing. SW: Yes, you did. AA: [Laughter] SW: Deputy Corporation Counsel —Sylvia Wan. So, it sounds like what you want this particular group to do is to identify different bills for possible investigation regarding cultural hunting, gathering and fishing. Does that sound more correct? AA: Yes. I'm gonna have to go on mute. [Dog barking] RD: I second the motion. AA: Open for discussion. RD: Yeah, Chair, I've done this for a number of years for Hawaii Fishing News and essentially what it is is identifying bills sometimes is a project and because bills are introduced on both sides of the House. But what's more critical is, you know, in any given year I'd say roughly, I'd say roughly this fifty to—it's going to be fifty to seventy bills that deal in some form of hunting, fishing or gathering, boating rights, gun rights—what have you. Could be a hundred but what happens is then, then tracking those bills becomes—if there's a bill that's critical and it's—you really need to watch. Like you know from last year—tracking and following is a much more intense a project because you essentially 16