2014-03-24 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – March 24, 2014 hunt – when you and I know in reality when we’re out there that it’s not, not necessarily that. I mean far from it and then with the loss of area like Mauna Kea for mammal and Manuka for goats it’s gonna really limit the areas that are available and open throughout the year for a particular types of hunting. And then you get the watershed on top of that so, and in our last meeting was one of the main things that I was trying to point out to Lisa Hadway – when they did this watershed plan, why wasnʻt Mauna Kea included of that 78,000 acres including Kaohe and the mitigation parcels and all that – that should have been counted for part of the watershed as total acreage because it’s 90,000 more of our state land and then I think it’s another 390,000 across boundaries which would be Kamehameha School and other landholders and things like that. Our State lands are prime hunting and watershed. I mean Mauna Kea is a big watershed so I don’t know why they didn’t include that as part of their governing of the watershed ‘cause that would have taken care of a lot of these problems right there. They would have to look for only 30,000 acres and I think the hunters would have easily accommodated that - but 90,000 is a hard amount - quite a bit so… Does anybody else have anything else to say on this? W. Camara: Yeah. And those five are the five that we’ve been supporting. There’s been a couple that we actually did oppose and with the help of the public and everybody too, we did get stopped, so, on that same note… I mean… Chair Sylvester: There’s things to look out for too.. W. Camara: Yeah. Your testimonies have been heard. Chair Sylvester: H.B. 1902 or 1904 was one of them, that was the money for eradication – which was under native species control which all invasive species bills are specific to fire ants, coqui frog or whatever, and that one was put in as a blanket for education, outreach and control, but didn’t specify what you’re gonna educate and outreach and control. So for us it’s just a blanket and one slipped in there for whatever use. W. Camara: I think it was HCR98 – the one for the pigs. Chair Sylvester: Yeah, there was a House resolution. W. Camara: And there’s one getting heard tomorrow. Chair Sylvester: HCR98 that was also to join forces with the Department of Agriculture and Agro Business Corporation or something like that to find a strategy to remove pigs and it was quite interesting that the Dept. of Agriculture didn’t want nothing to do it – it was in their testimony they were like \[unclear\] don’t get us involved in that. A lot of that was in reaction to 1902, I believe, and then there’s one in the senate right now also… 4