2023_01_17 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes (DRAFT)

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worms that are in them as well. Cause it can be harmful to humans, I mean, we can all catch trichinosis from these pigs and stuff like that. I, myself, I got some – a bucket of wormer and I feed pigs at my own property and I’m starting to throw out some wormers out there to try and knock down this worm issue cause the thing that they do is they poop it out on the ground and if it’s in direct sunlight it can die within 24 hours from the sunlight – the parasite can – but if it’s mostly in the shaded areas like where the pigs are another animal or a bird or any mongoose – the worms can be transferred to them and, we need to definitely get this under control cause majority of our pigs over here are really sick on this side of the Island. The whole Milolii area is getting pretty bad. Almost every pig I catch now is not edible to me, I mean, for me my family that pig has to be perfect for me to feed it to my family and we gotta teach guys what to look for, for sure, ‘cause I even pulled out one liver that was literally 16 inches long – looked like one tongue – not – it was really abnormal and it’s \[unclear\] for sure. But other than that – everything else is good. There is – I would say – there is somewhat an epidemic on this Island of these crazy cat ladies feeding all these cats everywhere – these feral cat problems. We gotta somehow stop that cause those cats are making our places smell like a litter box – they’re turning our clean KTA shopping center or Long’s Drugs into one litter box and the cats are not only spreading these worms and stuff like these pigs are but there’s also other diseases they carry as well and I don’t see how it’s legal that these ladies can go and feed these cats at these sites and stuff like that. They’re also attacking our bird population and it’s gonna get worse for sure so… That’s all I have for District – 6. SW: Deputy Corporation Counsel, Sylvia Wan. Commissioner Griffey you can provide that handout to Barbara – you can make sure it’s disseminated at next month’s meeting and if you want to have more time talking about it you can talk to either the Chair or Barbara about adding it as an agenda item. AG: OK. Thank you. LT: Leomana, District – 3. I just wanted to ask if you can share that also on top of social media I think we can have a big impact quickly on the Big Island if we just round up all of the people that we know – rally together on social media – we can all go Kau and hunt, go South Kona and hunt – and kind of tackle this as a community and then for the cat lady – it’s illegal to feed wild animals in Hawaii. Tell her straight to her face. AG: They’re pretty crazy if you confront ‘em like that – that’s for sure. AA: District – 5. So, Austin, we had this worm problems brought up to the Commission before and actually I brought it up from before I even was a Commissioner. We had the west side biologist at the time – which was Joey Mello. What I did at that time, working with him and talking with him and even while on the Commission in my beginning years was – collect samples when you kill anything – the pigs, the goats – collect you guys’ samples and get it to the USDA. They actually do samples, I mean, they go check it out and see what’s – how healthy is the game – like for brucellosis and trichinosis and everything else. As far as the worms, they claim that it’s just one outburst – like a yearly thing – like not sure exactly what time of the year or whatever that all happens because where I hunt sporadically sometimes the pigs get one high influx with worms and then later on in the year it’s kinda all gone. So good thing that you feeding the ones 6