2024_09_17 Game Management Advisory Commission DRAFT Minutes

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TWC: My name is Taysen Wong Chong, I’m representing for District – 2, first off, I’d like to thank everybody for giving me the opportunity to be here as well. To give you some background, I studied Environmental Science and Biology, Forestry and Wildlife with the University of Hilo. Member of the Makahanaloa Fishing Association, caretaker of Hamakua coastline, I’ve been present in the meetings \[unclear\] growing up not just here but Department of Hawaiian Homelands, attended meetings, very active in a few non- profits in the community. I’ve worked with DLNR in the past 2007-2009. Basically, my goals are to preserve what we have, yeah, as, \[unclear\] conservation but for our future generations to come and as a community member as well there are concerns, of course, that we all have but as well for myself and how we can help manage these concerns and that’s just a little bit of my background. In the future there will be discussion of what I have in play - a lot of it has to do with the \[mauna?\] I’m not gonna lie, so… that’s what I’m here for. 3. STATEMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC ON AGENDA ITEMS: LT: Any statements from the public on agenda items? We have no people in the public meeting room, and I don’t see anybody raising their hands in the Chats. AA: (Abraham Antonio, pass GMAC chair) I can do mine or I can go now, or I can go later. LT: So, we got statements from the public we have Mr. Abraham Antonio, expert hunter, expert field man, and expert welder. AA: I’m here today to talk about Section 8, Part A – Open forum public comments on issues not on the current agenda for consideration for GMAC’s agenda at the next meeting, so I’d like 3 items – we can discuss them now or do we wait till you guys actually reach those items. IK: (Inha Kandatsu-Kang, Deputy Attorney). You can just provide some background and then they can decide when to put it on – if they’re gonna put it on the next agenda. AA: Ok. Barbara, did you get the photos I sent you? Is it possible that you can pull ‘em up? BK: I’ll look. AA: Game mammals when living in a wild or feral state not under domestication: deer, pronghorn, goat, sheep, cattle, pig – and any mother mammal that may or have been introduced into the State and released for hunting and for which a hunting season is established by law or by rule of the Department. So, just representing the community – so with that being said, is this from the HRS 183d- 51 – of Game Animals defined with exceptions – so with this – that’s basically saying that our animals within GMA’s (Game Management Area) and forest reserve – they’re not, ungulates they’re ungulates but they’re not invasive species because they were 2