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KC: Um, so, yeah, we’re looking at, you know, it wouldn’t be just our responsibility but also like how <br />can we work together with the community – the folks who know that pond really well. <br /> <br />AG: They might bring the fish back into the pond… <br /> <br />KC: For sure… <br /> <br />AG: \[Unclear\] <br /> <br />KC: Yeah, yeah. And so, yeah, the nutrients and, um, if that pond isn’t there by accident, right, it <br />serves a purpose so… <br /> <br />AG: Thank you… <br /> <br />KC: Yeah, yeah. Great question. <br /> <br />NR: Natalie Reynolds, District – 7. I have two questions. <br /> <br />KC: Thank you… <br /> <br />NR: Are you going – one – are you gonna make it an annual thing to close and if so when would that <br />be and my second question is do you think that unsafe reef sunscreen is an issue for that area? <br /> <br />KC: Great questions. So, one of the things that we’d really like to, you know, a closure is like a bad <br />word – I feel like it’s like a restrictive word – really we like to look at this as more of like a rest <br />period – it’s not an arbitrary time – it’s not every Tuesday – it’s really based around the needs of <br />that place and it’s really focused on a specific issue, right, so the decline of this coral led to this <br />strategy and really it was kind of driven from – when we looked at historically the way folks <br />cared for Kahaluu there were rest periods put in place during sensitive times so that, you know, <br />we weren’t putting too much pressure on something during a sensitive time like spawning. And <br />so, I think my goal would be that it doesn’t have to be every year – that the population recovers <br />in such a way that we’re not so worried anymore. I think that’s the longer term goal but in the <br />shorter term I do feel like, at least a couple more years of it we’ll be able to see like – based on <br />what I’ve seen now – it’s just such an amazing thing – the recovery process that we’ve seen. We <br />don’t really know what’s gonna happen in the coming years so I would say it’s really based on <br />the place and - the needs of the place and the needs of the species that we’re focused on, so, <br />yeah, we’ll be kind of keeping our eye on it also, you’re asking when – so it’s timed with the <br />lunar calendar and so usually that happens in like the springish as we enter into the spring so <br />the water starts to warm up just a little bit, and then the – around the full moon – so we look at <br />all those things and we look at the timing. And then the sunscreen issue, yeah, at Kahaluu <br />because of like you saw – all those folks coming there, the shallow nature of the bay, every place <br />is different, yeah, so is that a huge issue at every place – probably not because… <br /> <br />NR: \[Unclear\] <br /> <br />KC: ….yeah, but in that area with so many folks coming, so, it’s one of the ways that we can help <br />care for all of these ecosystems but the more we learn about it it’s also better for our human <br />12 <br /> <br /> <br />