2013-05-13 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes - May 13, 2013 address – although hunting is mentioned – like wild pigs and other game animals account for an estimated 400 thousand pounds of meat annually – this is an informal food supply here on the Big Island – and they go into ocean resources – subsistent hunting – and honey bees – most of the focus – as far as – is on ocean resources – obviously - there’s no real mention of sustained – subsistent for hunting, yeah. And they go a little bit into beef. But it says here – it also summarizes available hunting data and trying to define the volume of meat taken from the forest – mauka lands – to support the food needs of local families. Ah… And then there’s the Hawaii County food self-sufficient baseline – that’s twenty-twelve – prepared for Hawaii County Department of Research and Development by the University of Hawaii in Hilo – Geography and Environmental Studies Department – Island Planning and the \[unclear\] Jeffrey Melrose – which I know – good guy. And then they have a hundred actions to increase food on the self-sufficiency – which I thought that was a really neat part of that whole article – it’s a long article – I just kind of high-lighted a few points on here, but – they don’t really specifically say how hunting contributes to this plan – but it is listed in there. So there’s some – and apparently they’re going to try to form a \[unclear\] statewide sufficiency scorecard, yeah? Because the State hasn’t done it yet – so but the counties – I don’t know if the other counties have done it by counties – but it’s something to check also – to see if other counties have done that. So maybe Rob – maybe, you know, putting something together like that \[unclear\] before we go ahead and try to form a special committee – maybe try to find out if Maui has one – Kauai – and so forth… ?: Unless… T. Lodge: \[Unclear\] when I talked to Mrs. Donoho – her suggestion was – and I haven’t had the opportunity to do that yet – is to go to the University and see if they could do a project on, you know, hunting – what would be the value – economic value. \[Unclear\] but that’s – that would be another \[unclear\] \[disturbance with other conversation and noise\]. ?: So Jordan – so there’s this guy who runs a lab – he’s a professor at UH Manoa – and he – we met with him – Forestry has met with him – Wildlife Program met with him last week and actually he had kind of list of some project ideas – and I think this is kind of essentially one of those 33