2014-04-21 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawai’i Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – April 21, 2014 G. Hisashima: So why isn’t the Agriculture not doing anything about it? They going wait till it comes here? That’s the kind of message you folks need to be sending out. L. Ashida : Mr. Chairman maybe you could include that - Mr. Hishasima said on this – our next meeting agenda… Chair Sylvester: OK. L. Ashida: ….create the, I think the Councilmen would be very appreciative of our specific recommendations like this and you know and I think your function would be to research these issues and put together a very cogent report in a - the dangers than present it to the council and at that point put it with – give it to them. Glen, what district you? G. Hisashima: Who? The Island of Hawaii… \[Laughter\] L. Ashida: What council district you? Two or three… \[Inaudible\] L. Ashida: You know, you can also, you know, while we’re at it you know what you can do, seriously, I’m sorry, man, you finish… G. Hisashima: No, no. I just putting this concern because they don’t have a cure, pork prices going up, and they telling the human race not to eat processed pork. Is that message sent to anybody in the Hawaiian Islands? No. Look what has processed pork: SPAM, Vienna sausage, everything. So somebody got to bring that message out. Lucky you folks the right timing to make an impact – You guys worried about hunters concern. The hunting is a separate. I look at daily life – if we can protect the pigs maybe we can tell DLNR that’s our resource if all the pigs on the mainland going die. That going protect you folks self. D.Yoshina: I know you think it’s our job… G. Hisashima: Hum? D. Yoshina: Would you write a resolution to that effect? G. Hisashima: No, I not going write a resolution. I can give you the information. D. Yoshina: Yeah, we’ll write it. We’ll write it. 28