2013-05-13 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes - May 13, 2013 your managers that are responsible for moving this project forward – and make sure that there is an open dialogue – that, you know, like as a commission – it’s hard for a manager to deal with a thousand calls from a thousand hunters – but if this group is organized and you guys have concerns – then I think it’s fair enough that – for us as managers to expect to be able to be accountable to you guys. I think a two-way dialogue is really, really good. I guess one thing too, is I would ask – as much as possible – that you guys could keep this relationship very constructive – because that’s what’s gonna get this stuff done. So, I think you guys can do that – because I mean you are a County sanctioned group – and you’re organized. I think also – if there’s – you know - there’s a bunch of things I’d like to see changed. I’d like to see rules changed – I’d like to see, you know, people from out of State being charged more money – you know all of that stuff takes organized support from the community – I think that this commission can do that – like writing letters, showing up at the Leg – and saying, Yeah! You know, like let’s do whatever we can to \[unclear\] the hunting rules. I know sometimes it might take the Governor’s – and I’m not real clear on this – it might take the Governor’s signature to change the hunting rules – I think this time around I would love that – if that could somehow be streamlined and some decisions could be kept at a lower level and maybe that’s something that this commission could support. I think ideas for other areas, you know, you guys know people in the community – you know – again we can’t do everything that this group or any group of hunters want to do – but I think there’s a lot of good ideas – that I’ve heard statewide from the hunting community that I’ve not heard from other State people – so I think that’s really important as well… D. Yoshina: We’re talking about hunting but we’re also responsible for fishing, gathering, and I guess \[unclear\] but I guess \[unclear\]. So, you’ve spoken tonight quite eloquently about hunting and we’ve ah, I’m wondering about the fishing… J. Jokiel: Yeah, I know that’s a huge issue. And I’m really not focusing on that. Honestly, I think – in my mind – I think the Na Ala Hele Program – should be working on that because that’s – you know access is a really big issue – not that it’s not important to me – but I can’t – I’ve talked to Debbie Chang a little bit about some fishing access stuff but, I don’t know if I can take that on as much as this – and I’d love to if I can 12