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thing that the fishing community in Keaukaha is doing is getting back to all of our <br />original place names for all of fishing holes. I brought some examples of the old names <br />of the fishing spots in Keaukaha. Lokowaka which is over at 4-miles, Puhi Bay which is <br />over here – you can look at it and then Pewe – a couple of other places is from <br />Onekahakaha and so these are all of the original names of our fishing holes in Hilo – not <br />every area in Hilo had a unique name but this was due to its high popularity and the <br />fishes that we used to eat, and this led me to having discussions with the kupuna of the <br />community and having these ideas of tracking the fish over stories and not just in real- <br />time today because when I was a little kid down right across in Puhi Bay all of the fish <br />used to come up right next to the road and talking to the kupunas at the event this past <br />weekend I was able to communicate with people who knew of the population of the <br />fish, who ate the fish down in Keaukaha and it seems to be – to me now – the <br />population is at like 5% of what it was when I was five and six years old so I would like to <br />encourage everyone around the Island in their district if you can – get together with the <br />local community and find out the old names of your fishing holes or your hunting spots. <br />Outside of this update, I did talk to the people a couple of times \[unclear\] who are <br />marine biologists came down and was at the event and we were talking about the pump <br />station – the pump station right now is still damaging all of the fishing in Hilo along the <br />break wall and when the waves come up it takes all of that raw sewage and pushes it <br />out all into the Honokaa coast and along the Keaukaha coast where most of our fish is <br />and this kind of goes right back into the Wailoa situation where this past week I actually <br />got to see a boat get stuck like live, with my own eyes and so this Wailoa situation with <br />the dredging is really important to District number 3 because I am the, you know, I do <br />come from Keaukaha and this is our fishing village and almost – the all the fish from the <br />Island comes from this area right now because that’s where the boats can launch. <br />Pohoiki is down – the next place to go is all the way down to South Kona. So, Maurice’s <br />presentation with the boat ramps opening up will really relieve a lot of stress from Bay <br />front and allow our fishermen to go catch fish. Another one is in the back of Panaewa – <br />a lot of the Panaewa homestead is being bought up the last two years as we all know, <br />and the pigs are running back out onto the road. On our property in Keaukaha I was able <br />to see a 5% increase in the population of pigs, just because people are fencing their <br />lines. It’s a common thing – always happening – I just noticed a high population of pigs <br />at Onekahakaha Beach Park, and outside of that, that is my report for District number 3, <br />thank you. Next up is District – 4…Brian Ley <br /> <br />BL: (B. Ley) Can you guys hear me now? <br /> <br />LT: Yup. <br /> <br />BL: Oh, good, I wasn’t sure what the problem was. Ah, Brian – District – 4, I’d like you <br />touched on, Pohoiki – they’re having a meeting on it – it’s been on for years so I don’t <br />know the money comes and goes so I don’t know – it seems like, ah, been able to go <br />fishing in \[unclear\] things – seems to be an issue on this coastline and, HB 1980 for <br />anybody who go hunts dogs or owns dogs might want to look into it. It passed the <br />5 <br /> <br /> <br />