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alongside the fence and that’s not something that anybody wants to see. So, at least if we have
<br />corridors where the animals are used to going anyway, we can at least manage it. Um, but…
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<br />AA: \[Unclear\]
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<br />KK: Yeah, so that’s it. So those are the suggestions that I was gonna bring up to the task force.
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<br />AA: OK. Thanks. Um, we can move this subject on to next month’s meeting…
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<br />KK: OK.
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<br />AA: Running out of time so you can come back again, next month’s meeting, going be January 16.
<br />Alan, thank you very much for coming. Thanks for your report, we’ll discuss this again probably
<br />next month, and then we’ll get back to you. Ah, if anybody else from the Commission or the
<br />public wanna email Alan or text or call his contact was up on the screen for a while. So, thanks
<br />Alan, thanks everybody else for your comments and questions. Ah, moving on to presentation b.
<br />Troy Saikihara, Aquatic Biologist, Division of Aquatic Resources, DLNR, State of Hawaii –
<br />“Division of Aquatic Resources (DAR) 2023 Updates. Last month we had DOFAW – this month
<br />we have DAR. So go ahead, Troy.
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<br />b. Troy S. Saikihara, Aquatic Biologist, Division of Aquatic Resources, DLNR, State of Hawai’i:
<br />“Division of Aquatic Resources (DAR) 2023 Updates.”
<br />TS: All right, aloha, Chair Abraham, aloha Commissioners.
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<br />LT: Aloha…
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<br />TS: Yeah, first off, mahalo, Abraham for all your service, um, been, you know, enjoyed working with
<br />you for the past few years, um, so again, mahalo. Ah, let me share my screen. Can you guys see
<br />that?
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<br />AA: Yeah.
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<br />TS: OK. All right, so, I’ll try to be brief but I’m just gonna be – kinda presenting - it’s gonna be kind
<br />of a hodge-podge of things that we’ve been doing, especially, at least for our East Hawaii DAR
<br />Office, um, ah, but to kinda just, organize it a little more – give it a little bit more structure, I’m
<br />gonna be going over four main topics, first it’s gonna be some rule making initiatives that we
<br />took on this year, and then second will be some ecological monitoring and biological sampling
<br />projects that our Hilo office has been conducting. Also, some outreach in education efforts and
<br />then lastly future initiatives for the coming years. Ah, so the first administrative rule that
<br />actually took effect this year was the lay net rule amendments, ah, so this was approved by the
<br />governor and was, ah, went into effect this year, ah, so this new administrative rule requires all
<br />lay net users to acquire an annual lay net permit and this can be acquired online – we have
<br />online applications or fishers can come into our offices to get assistance for the application
<br />based on public testimony when we went out for public hearing, um, the leadership decided
<br />that there’s – they waived the fee – so there’s no fee for residents or active duty military for this
<br />annual permit, however, they did maintain the $25.00 annual fee for non-residents. And that’s
<br />mainly going towards just kind of overhead administrative costs to run this licensing or permit
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