2013-06-17 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – June 17, 2013 that but I think they need to make a strong commitment to the community for that. Cause once our game animals are gone – that resource is gone. And we don’t know that we’re gonna have any kind of propagatings or repropagating of any of these animals, so once they’re lost, they might be lost forever, so, I think it’s [unclear] we need to impress upon the fact that we need to impose this idea of salvage. Chair Sylvester: Tom, can you explain to everybody about this wanton waste? T. Lodge: Wanton waste – basically it’s – if you shoot an animal and leave it - just let it rot [unclear]. Wanton waste rules require that you take the animal – that if you shoot it, you take it. And, you know, basically, it’s for the purpose of consumption or all the utilization. I mean you know, I guess some people use the hooves for glue and things like that, you know, but whatever it is – that you take that [unclear] animal and, you know, we need to respect these animals too, you know, it’s not just us, you know, it’s also the animals, so, we need to respect the animals. If you kill it, you need to do something with it. ?: So, it’s against our laws? T. Lodge: We don’t have any laws that specifically address that, yet. Chair Sylvester: Is that, Bobby, would that be something to do with the County Council? [Unclear] is a Council thing or that would be… ?: It should be… Chair Sylvester: ….that would be something that… ?: It should be a Council thing and it should also be [unclear]… B. Command: I think you can ask Council to pass a law like that – [unclear] to support the – our community – cause that way they can’t just like kill animals now – they’d have to do something with it. Well… P. Dedman: [Unclear] there is a law [unclear]. ?: [Unclear] 25