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<br />Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting <br />Minutes – June 17, 2013 <br />C. Bailey: Yeah, in that request, Commissioner Lodge, I would ask that <br />you include the wording that we request the attendance of <br />Mr. Rob Pacheco, the Big Island representative who sits on <br />the board, who’s going to be making a decision on this – <br />probably they can do it in the next meeting – so… I think we <br />need to be diligent and move forward with this as fast as we <br />can… <br /> <br />Chair Sylvester: Mark? <br /> <br />M. Bartell: Ah, yeah, a couple thoughts. First, 124 exist – so we’re <br />talking about the amendments to it, right? <br /> <br />Chair Sylvester: Right. <br /> <br />M. Bartell: I think, if we’re gonna be successful at stopping this - simply <br />put – if you exempted game animals from 124 – the hunters <br />and gatherers of the island would probably be able to live <br />with what exists, right? So, if you excluded penalties for <br />moving pigs – we’d probably be way better off than if we let <br />these amendments go through. There’s, you know, issues <br />with – I think a lot of 124 has to do with snakes and bugs <br />and you know incredibly ugly pests that probably all of us <br />don’t want on the island. But the way they wrote it – it makes <br />criminals out of everyday pig hunters, right? When they <br />move a pig… So, we could go at shelving it, which I think is <br />scrap it all of 124 – which I think is probably not gonna to <br />happen; we could go after every detail like Cleon’s <br />suggesting, which is, I think, an uphill battle. If we got the <br />County Council and the Mayor to put in verbiture exempting <br />game animals and get the list of what we think a game <br />animal is exempted from the penalties associated with the <br />amendments to 124, I think we’ll have made – we’ll get 80 or <br />85 or 90% of what the hunters of Hawaii want with just that <br />simple change. That would be my suggestion, if we want to <br />be – if we try to want to be successful here – as we move <br />forward. I think, the Mayor is probably gonna have to work <br />with that, the County Council could get on board with that <br />and our chance of being successful, I think, goes up. <br /> <br />?: Excellent. <br /> <br />Chair Sylvester: OK. <br /> <br /> 18 <br /> <br />