2013-09-23 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – September 23, 2013 removing all of the animals here, shouldn’t we be doing – I mean who \[tape disturbance\]? Is there like a \[unclear\]? Mr. Aila: So to answer your question, yes, you should be doing that also. And I think as my deputy explained to you last time that she was here we will be going to the legislature to seek additional funds to do exactly what you said. T. Lodge: OK. Mr. Aila: So we agree with you that we should be doing both things simultaneously. We should be making hunting area more available to you, more robust as we implement the rain forest plan. So we look forward to your testimony and support. K. DeCoito: You know we’re talking about self-sustainability. Do you feel that the hunters – we hunt – are doing this for self-sustainability? What is your take on that? What do, how do you feel with us hunters in the forest is what I’m trying to get at? As far as us guys gathering, hunting or living off the land? Mr. Aila: Well, the short answer is I think it’s great that people are hunting and supplementing what they bring home to eat. There’s no problem with that. We see that as part of management. So moving forward as I answer the question – we will be very much supportive and our plans are to go to the legislature to ask for additional monies to increase the amount of – help hunting opportunities. We are in constant communication with private landlords, we are in constant communication with the army, we are in constant communication with other federal agencies to see where we can increase the opportunities for hunters to hunt. We know that you’re upset. We know that the rainfall forest plan feels like it’s threatening you. We know that, so to balance that we’re looking at other opportunities. K. DeCoito: Yeah. We wanna look for balance. We need some kind of balance here. I appreciate you came. I hope you’ll come back and sit down and we’re not on a time table, we can sit down and actually talk. Go over things because we have not had a chance to meet with you folks at all. Now Miss Hadway is in there before with Mr. Imoto, now it’s Lisa Hadway. We have no working communication. Us guys were cut off, completely cut off. We’re losing all the land we get here is going from us. And now this rainfall for the forest, you guys are adding as you say another 5% or another 10%. When you look at our island we have here, we’re strategically all the centuries the best of the best we’ve had is gone. So for us to be self-sustainable and go hunt it’s so hard for us to go gather. So we really don’t have anything left, so if you could make an opportunity to come back and talk with us so we can get some meat and potatoes so we can actually try to figure out a solution here. 7