2024_08_20 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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everybody getting together to do something. We pretty much led it but, we called Waikiki Aquarium was there to receive the coral, they wanted it for display or do something with ‘em, I don’t know, but the fishers, the people from the community – the person who kinda reported it and kind of led the community side – she came out and helped us out too, to take out that coral, so it wasn’t like a knee-jerk decision – it was pretty well thought out and a lot of people got involved in it, \[unclear – sounds like Getty Jam Beat for it\] – for example, of the, tried to ID the coral and stuff like that, yeah, samples were sent to some experts who would be more familiar with those species of corals and I think at the end of the day we did get a species name for those corals. BL: OK. But just for future reference – say, with the changing currents and everything else – if something moved in – it’s how everything got in Hawaii – it showed up from somewhere else – so I was just curious on the future thing if all of sudden coral from Australia showed up – would they get rid of it cause it found its way here on the changing currents. RO: They suspected that one – in that incidence – they suspected it was an intentional introduction because there were multiple species in that one place which raised suspicion. RO: OK. Thank you. LT: Thank you very much. Any more discussion, questions? RD: District – 1, Robert Duerr. Thanks, Ryan, for coming. The DAR’s been an exemplary agency with DLNR, especially with your focus on working from bottom up and getting input from the users/fishers/and local people and especially for using your spatial moku program systems program approach, it’s well – and taking Holomua through the years and how it’s evolved and how you’ve gone with the flow of community impact – you’ve really – you and your boss Brian Neilson are exemplary and thank you very much. RO: Right on, thank you, and thank you for all your guy’s input. We always, I always like to listen to hear what the stakeholders have to say, yeah, thank you. LT: Anymore discussion? Questions? None seeing – aloha – Leomana, District – 3. I just have three questions to ask. I’m just gonna name them off first and then you can answer how you like. We had a commissioner – he came inside here last year, and we were talking about bag limits to lobsters, so I just wanted to ask on any update on the lobster – whatever you have. Also, with the lobster we had discussions on opihi because I know the opihi ban went into effect and is there any surveillance or any of the DLNR officers out there patrolling either lobsters or opihi? The second one is the coral in Kailua-Kona Bay that has to do with the moorings for the paddling flags, the canoe regattas – last year Kona had like 20 flags in illegal moorings that has to do with the coral reef over there – so if you know anything about the moorings for the regattas, I think there’s 14 lanes x 3 – so that’s a lot of illegal moorings, and another one has to do with the Bureau of Energy Management and the Clarion Clipperton Zone and what the effects of the sea floor mining – what affects that would have on Hawaii’s ecosystem and our aquatic life – I don’t know how much you know about the metals company and the deep sea mining that’s going on between Hawaii and like kind of Central America but I just wanted to know if you have any 18