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AG: Austin Griffey, District – 6, I’d like to make a motion to approve 2023 Spring Turkey Hunting <br />Season Review by Richard Hoeflinger. <br /> <br />AA: Need a second. <br /> <br />RD: Second. <br /> <br />AA: Austin made a motion to approve the Turkey Season Review, um, Robert Duerr made a second, <br />any discussion? <br /> <br />RD: Just a note, Chair, Duerr – District 1. I actually had the opportunity to turkey hunt with Dick <br />Hoeflinger and he just wanted to relay to this Commission that he wants to thank DOFAW’s <br />head Steve Bergfeld, Ian Cole, Kanalu Sproat and Josh Ching-Pang for their help in helping him <br />put this together. <br /> <br />AA: Any other discussions? Not seeing any, um, all in favor say aye. \[The ayes have it\]. Six ayes, no <br />nays, motion passes, this letter can be filed. <br /> <br />LT: \[Unclear\] <br /> <br />AA: He (Richard Hoeflinger) does all of our turkey season reviews and also the bird hunting reviews <br />so, thank you, Richard. Now moving on to our presentation. We have Kim Kozuma here from the <br />Department of Agriculture. She’s a Division Manager for the Animal Disease Control Branch. We <br />got her here because Austin had a lot of concerns for the diseases or worms and things that he’s <br />been encountering in his district. We brought DOFAW in before and I reached out to DOFAW <br />and they sent me along and I met Kim so that’s how Kim got here today, so… Take over Kim… <br /> <br />6. PRESENTATION: <br /> <br />a. Kim Kozuma, DVM, Animal Disease Control Branch, Hawai’i Department of <br />Agriculture, Presentation Regarding Diseases in Game Animals <br /> <br />KK: Right. Well thank you for giving me a promotion along the way. I’m actually just a veterinary… <br /> <br />AA: DVM… <br /> <br />KK: Yeah, no, no, no, I’m a veterinary medical officer for the Island of Hawaii. So basically, our <br />division is animal industry. It has 3 branches – one is the diagnostic lab, the other is the airport <br />quarantine that a lot of people are familiar with and then what used to be called livestock <br />disease control, which is now animal disease control because we do venture off into shellfish <br />and aquaculture and, um, apparently bees too. So I’m the veterinary medical officer for this <br />Island and, I looked at the topic, diseases that the feral animals can carry and I think because of <br />the limited time and with all the interest in the pigs and the pigs probably being the worst <br />actors of them all because they carry everything, I’m kind of limited to that but I’ll be happy to <br />come back and talk about some of the other diseases that can be spread or carried, and I guess <br />the main things that we worry about – I’ll start from the least to the worst. Of course, your <br />7 <br /> <br /> <br />