2014-03-24 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – March 24, 2014 goals and how DLNR and DAR participates and how we can address the concerns of aquatic resource users and please let us know if you’ll participate in st the upcoming meeting on April 21 and we have our contact information. So we would like to make a motion. Action: T. Lodge moved to approve request letter to Dr. Bill Walsh for his st presence at GMAC’s April 21 meeting; second by M. Bartell and carried unanimously by voice vote. VIII. NEW BUSINESS: Discussion: 1. Hawaii administrative rules Title 13, Department of Land and Natural Resources Subtitle 5 – Forestry and Wildlife, Part 2 – Wildlife Chapter 122 Rules regulating game bird hunting, field trials and commercial shooting preserves Rules Amending Title 13 Hawaii Administrative Rules Chair Sylvester: OK. Now it’s just – we’ll open up the discussion for administrative rules – Chapter 122 that deals with game birds and 123 is game mammals and it’s more just informational right now since we really didn’t talk about rules at all – but there’s a lot of, I think it’s been 6 ½ years now that this rule making is in the works – hasn’t been approved – and that’s another part that really holds us back, you know, there’s no game management plans for decades, administrative rules that tell us what to do in hunting is obsolete and outdated, hasn’t been approved – everything seems to be sitting at the Attorney General’s office. The Habitat Conservation Plan for \[unclear\] is 10 years in the making, so Tom (Lodge) had a really good letter that he threw out but I guess he didn’t want to show it at the legislature but he might show that how long \[unclear\] dealing with hunting and hunter related and that’s a priority of decades… Man: \[Unclear\] Chair Sylvester: ….stuff to happen – like Rainfall in the Forest just happened overnight. So it shows you the priority of DLNR in that sense. And I guess one of the things that I’ve learned also from someone who talked to Fish and Wildlife is that a lot of this delay by DLNR \[unclear\] them, cause as long as they’re making a reasonable effort to strive towards rule making and game management plans and all that – they can’t be sued. That’s what we were told, so… 20