2023_11_21 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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being dry – but even at the intersections of Saddle Road and Mohouli where we usually see pigs – I don’t really see any of them – I went out to go count this past week, so the pigs on the upper side of District – 1, are low and then in the back of Keaukaha I went to hunters down in Keaukaha at \[unclear\] house – they told me the pig count in the back is low – they hunt almost every other day – the young boys – and even they said the pig count is low – so I don’t know if that has to do with military planes cause we had C7 \[unclear\] come in and then all the helicopters and the training maybe. They ran to Puna side out of my district. Another one was the lay net letter – I don’t know if you guys had letters, you guys have registered lay nets but I got mines last week in the mail. DOFAW sent out their new registration for lay nets – so just reminders – everybody’s a registered lay net owner, or if you guys have fishing in your district – everyone should have gotten lay net rules in the mail this past month, and it’s right at the top of my district but I just wanted to bring up Saddle Road – I was on Saddle Road on Sunday and if you guys drove Saddle Road just recently you guys could see there – I counted 70 carcasses but there’s about 70, \[unclear\] was on the road. Lalamilo got – this past month there’s been a high count of car accidents – dead animals – you can see ‘em still there – nobody’s recovering the bodies – moving them out of the road – I have to swerve around so I don’t know if you have people – the County pays for ‘em – maybe DLNR to go out and check that but, I just wanted to address the situation with the military training and the abundance of dead carcasses left in the middle of the road \[unclear\] my wife and my kids, and they looked at me and they’re like – all the little baby ones and so I was oh man that was too much for me as a parent and as someone who cares about our wild game, we’re killing hundreds of these animals, because we’re just not prepared for the influx of the migration so if we can address that would be cool, but other than that – that’s my updated for District – 3. AA: Thank you. Abraham, District – 5. DOFAW does not control lay nets that’s DAR. LT: Oh, DAR, DAR… Yeah, are they DOBOR, no… The DOBOR something about \[unclear\]. AA: And then District – 4. BL: District – 4, Brian Ley. I haven’t heard anything new on Pohoiki moving forward – last I heard is serious money disappearing and they haven’t found it yet so Pohoiki’s still on HOLD and I think all the pigs have migrated to Puna ‘cause I’m getting all sorts of calls and everything else cause the water or something but there’s \[unclear\] in Puna and, the drought situation needs to be addressed ‘cause I almost hit a sheep going bird hunting the other day, right at light ‘cause they’re eating, drinking the water out of the divets – there was moisture out there so, the DLNR needs to look into their thing on allowing waters to keep the animals off the road if we can get some water so they \[unclear\] down on the road being a hazard to everybody, so, that’s it for District - 4. AA: District – 5, nothing really to report besides, the trash up on, inside of the hunting areas not really too much we can do ‘cause not really coming from the hunters – it’s just \[unclear\] forest users just coming from the neighborhoods around the common areas. District – 6, absent. District – 7, absent. District – 8, Cortney? CO: Aloha, everyone. A couple of updates, both of these are regarding Kahaluu Bay, Robert pointed me to a new bill that’s going to be up with the County Council – it’s bill 93 which proposes an 4