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should have opened with this but, our agency is division of aquatic resources. And we <br /> manage fish, limu, coral, and even opai everything that's living in the water. We do not <br /> manage the water itself... water quality which is how clean the water is ... is generally <br /> managed by the department of health. Water quantity, the giving and taking of water in <br /> our streams for various uses, that's under the Commission of Water Resource <br /> Management and at the same time we acknowledge these things as mentioned about <br /> water are very important to things we manage. We don't shy away with discussion with <br /> that;and at the same time, we acknowledge the guys who make the rules about that. We <br /> are interested in water quality, we are interested in water quantity, we work with Sea <br /> worm to do studies as to understand how the giving and taking of water influences the <br /> fish, the o'opu and the mullet and stuff like that. Just wanted to touch on that. Yeah,just <br /> what our jurisdiction is and at the same time where our interest is and where we see... <br /> what we can do to improve the situation of the aquatic resources, other ways instead of <br /> just making rules. So, stay in engagement we assemble a fishing working group, but I have <br /> engaged other communities, my community is TKO and I have been engaging them trying <br /> to develop projects, engaging Keaukaha and we just started to engaging lower Puna a bit <br /> more. This is just kind of like the beginning not engaging anybody on Hamakua Moku or <br /> Ka'u Moku yet, but we hope to reach to those guys... again backing up...my position is that <br /> I'm the lead for East Hawaii... so that's my space East Hawaii, we also have another sister <br /> position in West Hawaii same position as me,we divide the Island pretty much in half. So, <br /> things I talk about in East Hawaii, but if you guys have questions about West, or Statewide <br /> stuff I can do my best to answer, if I cannot answer, I can do my best to find out and get <br /> it to you guys. So, on that stakeholder engagement team, there is this effort going on <br /> currently on Maui County or Maui Island or the Island of Maui...called the Holumu effort <br /> and it's an effort where its stakeholder driven you know where we assemble a group of <br /> stakeholders, and they come up pretty much a plan, for what DAR should do. So that's <br /> going on Maui so it's being going on pre-covid, so it's being going on for a long time. They <br /> have a navigation team, and the navigation team meets and discusses and makes rules, <br /> recommendations, and restoration ideas. Looking at the full gambit of tools in our <br /> toolbox to better manage the aquatic resources. I mentioned that effort that is happening <br /> on Maui Island and it's coming to an end and it's going to be initiated on our Island next. <br /> So, that is going to start out with a bunch of six or seven meetings throughout the Island <br /> and that's probable going to happen next year sometime, we're hoping before Summer. <br /> And that is the initial meetings and we're going to ask for nominations for that Navigating <br /> Team... And that's the team that's going to meet and figure out a plan for how we can <br /> manage the resources better. So, looking at the stakeholders and looking at the <br /> grassroots and the input of the stakeholders and we realize our task is to be big to do it <br /> by ourselves, we need the peoples help, so we are trying to get help from the people. <br /> 25 <br />