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lobsters – they had 200 core coolers with live lobsters inside – they had well over 100 lobsters, <br />and these guys aren’t even from this Island and I think we have a poor management system on <br />the harvesting of lobsters with a bag limit and per person and the fact that guys can actually <br />sell ‘em on the side of the road because I’ve dove lobsters my whole life – I’ve seen decline <br />since I was from 12 years old to now the holes that I used to go used to have big lobsters in the <br />holes, now get maybe 3-4 lobsters in the holes. Every opening season I go, I drive down 9:00a – <br />set up at the spot and guys is already diving and they’re not supposed to be in the water at <br />12:00. So I know this whole South side shoreline is a big shoreline and with the lack of DLNR <br />officers in this area it’s hard for them to manage so hopefully these 14 officers they’re sending <br />over here can start patrolling and cracking down on these guys that are just pounding our local <br />resources to sell. And for me, I don’t want to see lobsters for sale on the shelf – it’s something <br />you go traditionally dive for once or twice a season – you get your bag limit and you don’t sell it <br />– you go around and you give – that’s a lot of things that we’re not seeing these days – <br />everybody it’s all about money – nobody’s giving and we need to bring back that tradition of <br />giving and just you give you get – that’s how it goes and I’d like to make a PIG on this topic as <br />well to bring awareness about the sale of lobsters and the – see if we can get DLNR on the page <br />to create some kind of bag limit and enforce the issue. Other than that – that’s all I have for <br />District – 6, everything else is going pretty good. <br /> <br />ACTION: A motion was made by A. Griffey to form a PIG to investigate the harvesting of live <br />Hawaiian lobsters and the bag limits. Seconded by C. Okumura. Motion carried by <br />poll voice vote with 6 ayes and no nays. <br /> <br />AA: OK. Right on, Austin. Would you like to make a motion to create that PIG? <br /> <br />AG: Yes, I would like to make a motion to create the PIG about sale of lobsters and bag limits. <br /> <br />SW: OK. So just that I’m clear – the PIG would be regarding investigating the sale of the – you’re <br />talking about the Hawaiian lobster, yeah? <br /> <br />AG: Yeah. The locally caught lobsters. Those guys never had their lobster on ice. They were alive in <br />the cooler. So they caught ‘em….probably over a hundred… <br /> <br />SW: So it’s to investigate the sale of the local lobster live and any regulations regarding that? <br /> <br />AG: There is no regulations – there’s only a size limit regulation. I don’t know if we can write a letter <br />urging them to create some kind of better bag limit system or rule change to prevent the <br />extinction of our lobster pretty much. I know they reproduce really quick but I know a lot of <br />guys also are grabbing females and taking all the females and they’re not – so there’s nobody <br />enforcing it so they just go out on a boat and they just pound ‘em and then they’ll come in and <br />nobody knows where they are. <br />AA: Abraham, District – 5, hopefully in the future when we get these 14 officers they going be <br />spread out through the Island so we should have more enforcement coming up here pretty <br />quickly because they – I think they supposed to start yesterday or maybe next week Monday <br />they start… <br /> <br />Josh: (Joshua Pang-Ching) They’re not like \[unclear\] <br />10 <br /> <br /> <br />