2024_08_20 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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gonna affect stakeholders on Hawaii Island too – so there’s a vessel license that’s coming up in a few months, so instead of like each crew member on your fishing boat – if you’re gonna do commercial stuff having to have a license – you can just get a vessel license and that’ll cover all the crew members on your boat. Sometimes you mix and match or whatever’s like that and humbug to get a license for somebody that fishes with you only couple times – but this will help cover that kind of situations – so it increases flexibility. There’s a non-residents fishing license coming out in fall and there is a license requirement for dealers that is probably coming out early next year. So those are some rules makings and stuff like that, and I’ll pause a little bit before I shift into another topic that I think so would be of interest. LT: OK. BL: Brian, District – 4. Fishing licenses, I know they’ve discussed that before and they were saying it was just gonna cover administrative costs, which was just creating jobs for \[unclear\] but it’s, these fishing licenses and stuff are they earmarked for anything being \[unclear\] or is it just going back in the general fund? What are they gonna do with the license fees? RO: I don’t know \[unclear\] so this would be fishing license for non-residents, and I don’t know what they going do with their funds – so it depends – the funds could be just to cover administrative or if the funds higher, then it could be used to cover other things. I don’t know, but I can find out. And this is for the revenue from the non-resident fishing license? BL: Yeah. RO: Sorry, I just want to make sure I get it. I can give another - an example of a revenue program like I said, I don’t know about this particular program, but I know about another program that we just started – it’s called the Ocean Stewardship Fund, Malama i Ke Kai is the tag name for it. And it’s a program where we collect a dollar from commercial user kind of recreation guys – so like people who go charter fish or people who go scuba dive, those charter guys – then we get a dollar from each of those customers, I guess, and that one we got authority to do maybe like a couple years ago from the Leg and it expires – it has a sunset date for about 5 years. But that one we have a spend plan and everything for that one – so a lot of it is gonna go back into stuff like, setting up mooring balls in areas for those people that we, contributing to the funds to use, you know, kind of try and give back to that industry, also some coral restoration potentially making those dive sites more appealing, but some other funds also being used for general coral reef management like giving space for communities to engage and manage also – community management I think is also in there. So that one you can look up online – that’s Malama i Ke Kai/Ocean Stewardship Program. But I don’t know exactly what is going be used with non- resident revenue license. OK. I going move on to the next topic then. The next topic is kind of an update on what is happening on Maui, but it does have implications for Hawaii Island so I going start up with an update on Maui and, kind of tie it back into Hawaii Island. So recently, on Maui we initiated the Holomua process – so I want to say recently – it started in October 2022. And it started out with a few meetings basically, talk-story sessions – we just conducted in Wailuku, Lahaina, and Hana. So we tried to get good spatial coverage with the resources we have, of course, and these initial meetings were meant to compile and better understand issues and concerns with the near shore marine resources for Maui residents, also to determine what a team composition should be to help develop and island proposal to better 15