2013-06-17 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – June 17, 2013 what happened. So, I’d have to honestly say I’d have to go back and take a look at it. ?: If you are going to go back and look at it, would you mind entertaining [unclear]. B. Brilhante: What I’ll do, what I’ll do is, I’ll make the recommendation to Lincoln Ashida, and then I’ll have, I’ll let him know that you wanted to touch base with him. ?: [Unclear] D. Yoshina: So, what I’ve done thus far is I’ve looked at this issue and under 183 this is Title 12, Chapter 183D… Chair Sylvester: Of the… HRS? D. Yoshina: HRS… Ah, they talk about the distribution, free of charge, as the department deems to be, in the public interest. Game for the purpose of increasing the food supply of the State, and it’s kind of permissible, very discretionary on the part of DLNR. Um… But, I was told that this – that it requires that they distribute meat [unclear] by reading it says, and they may or may not, you know, depending on who is there. And, it brings back for me what is the central issue here, and that is the eradication of the animals. And, the salvaging part is kind of a way to satisfy the people’s emotional response to the eradication. So, I don’t know how we, um, deal with that question, because the caravan is past already. Especially for Mauna Kea. I don’t know about any place else, but Mauna Kea, you know… Um, so, I think that the DLNR DOFAW has a process by which it provides for the salvage of the meat and there’s very, some questions, or there was some question about the efficient distribution of the meat, which involves questions like, if you shoot 700 animals and you only recover 100, something’s not quite right there. And so, something should be done about that – as an example. So, um, my review of this thing indicates that DOFAW has a process and apparently there’s some fine tuning that can be done. And I know that there is this history here as to why it’s the way it is done. So, what I would like to propose for Council, ah, the Commission, is that we put together a paper about – that reviews this process – and recommends changes to that process, and I’m not ready to do that yet. But, I think that’s what we should do. 28