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gonna be holding a meeting in Hilo in March and then in Kona in April and we will be <br />forming a Big Island Fishers’ Team, which would reflect the same principles that’s going <br />on in Maui and Kauai, so we will be soliciting fishers from across the state or across the <br />islands from all the communities – all of the districts – so Kohala, North Kona, South <br />Kona, Kau, Puna, South Hilo, North Hilo, Hamakua as well as different gear types and <br />different fishing forms and convening a team that will help identify what are the <br />desires of the fishers and relaying that to DAR. That’s basically where Holomua is right <br />now, and I’m gonna stop now and open it up for discussions. I have a few more slides <br />but nothing important. <br /> <br />CO: Thank you, Phil. <br /> <br />PF: Yeah, go ahead. <br /> <br />CO: Any questions? <br /> <br />AA: Abraham, District – 5. So basically, your presentation on Holomua was – we had Troy <br />Sakahara come in and I think somebody else, so basically what you’re saying is that the <br />Holomua project just basically re-started again? <br /> <br />PF: Yes. Restarted – no more plan to finish something by 2030. No more plan of putting in <br />marine managed areas the fishery managed areas and all of that kind of stuff – those <br />are still going to be possibilities because there are a number of communities especially <br />on the Big Island that are considering that – you may have heard that recently Milolii <br />created a CBSFA – a community based subsistence area – that regulates their own area <br />and put in rules in their area. We are aware that the community of Hookena is <br />preparing a proposal. We have seen the proposal – we don’t like their proposal – we <br />are making inputs to the community to let them know what are the portions of the <br />plan that we do not like. Honaunau is also starting to talk about putting together a <br />CBSFA in their area. Kiholo is also in preparation of a proposal that they want to put <br />together and as you’re probably already aware – Kaupulehu has a ten-year ban on <br />fishing right now, they are preparing their ten-year report, and we understand the ten- <br />year report will be proposing some regulations. So, on the west side there are a large <br />number of proposals that will be coming to the table within the next year – next twelve <br />months – we’re concerned about that – and this is why we want to form the Big Island <br />Fisher’s Team so we can make sure that we are heard – by the Division of Aquatic <br />Resources. On the east side we are not hearing of any proposals that are coming or any <br />community groups that are forming to create a proposal. So, it’s mostly on the west <br />side that we have our concerns. <br /> <br />AA: Abraham, District – 5. That’s good to hear that Holomua that DLNR is doing it again – <br />because there was a lot of flack from it. We know that already. Um, yeah, down in <br />Milolii I know I had some comments come in that the community down there is pretty <br />aggressive to fishers when you’re just simply fishing – they come in pretty aggressively, <br />16 <br /> <br /> <br />