2014-02-24 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – February 24, 2014 VI. REPORTS/SPECIAL COMMITTEE/PRESENTATION: 1. Lisa Hadway is the new DOFAW Administrator. She worked on Hawaii Island for 13 years and served lastly as the branch manager before being promoted. Her office is in Honolulu and she now oversees the entire state. Chair Sylvester: Because of GMAC’s responsibility to advise various governmental agencies on sustainable subsistence hunting and fishing, as well as protect traditional cultural gathering rights, GMAC is particularly interested in learning the status of: The proposed amendment changes to Hawaii Administrative Rules, Title 13, Subtitle 5, Part 2, Chapter 124, Indigenous Wildlife, Endangered and Threatened Wildlife, and Introduced Wild Birds. a) GMAC has especial interest in knowing more about the purpose of the proposed amendments listed below and what is the status of these changes? Amend section 12-124-2 "definitions" to provide definitions for the terms "Introduce" and "Release" and amend the definitions of Introduced wildlife" "Injurious" and "Wildlife". Amend Section 13-124-3 "prohibited activities" to prohibit the transport and release of introduced wildlife. Power presentation begins. L. Hadway: Every set of administrative rules – there’s several sections and in that section – one of the first sections that we have is a definition section. So and the 124 rules had some differences in how things were defined compared to other rules in the department. So the changes of those definitions are actually to bring our definitions consistent across our rules. So in the 183D, Hawaii Revised Statutes, release is already defined there, so we wanted to make sure that the word “release” was defined consistently in the 124 rules. So that’s why the change happened. Chair Sylvester: Anyone (board) have any questions? L. Hadway: So it’s kind of an administrative change \[unclear\] M. Bartell: I have a question and in – if you can interpret it than just say you need a lawyer to do it but you know as I read this – so if – let me give you an example that happened to me last year. Right. My neighbor had a sow and I don’t know 3 or 4 piglets in his coffee farm, right, and asked me to remove the pigs. So what I 2