2014-08-25 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – August 25, 2014 P Pacheco: Mr. Chairman and all of the members of this Game Management Committee. Every time I come to a meeting, it’s the same old thing. You hear what they want to tell you, but they don’t listen to you what you want to tell them. These problems is not started now, it started back in the 60s. And it still remains. Land taken away, now eradication. Mr. Chairman, I have a question \[unclear\] in my opinion \[unclear\] me \[unclear\] the place here is not filled \[unclear\] I respect all testimony that was given, granted, very good. I request also that minutes – I’d like the minutes of what said by everybody here cause apparently, the minutes don’t get back to the people. 2) Mr. Botelho, very good question he had about fines. I brought this up 2 years ago to the County Council, the County Council answer was they had to pass a bill, send it to the legislature, the senate, to make it law for the fiduciary to push this. Talk to your councilmen and tell them get on the phone and get off their butt because this continuous to \[unclear\] and I agree with you Mr. Botelho. Fines have to be put where people gonna look at it and say no longer I’m going to do this because I don’t have the money. So without the fines they donna continue, continue and as we through \[unclear\] as it is right now, the hunters, unfortunately because of eradication the state has been doing and taking away all our game, they’re gonna go to private sector, they gonna start stealing and let it be known, or hear as I say, let it be known that the state DLNR is totally responsible for all \[unclear\] ranchers \[unclear\]. Because if they had a game management plan from way back which was implemented in 1960 and thrown under the table, this would never happen. And like I say, they come to the meeting, they tell you what they want you to hear, but they’re not gonna listen to you. These have been going on and on and on. I went to Honolulu to testify. DOCARE, they need more men. Mr. Aila was sitting there. He supported a bill to \[unclear\] to designate more money. What did Mr. Aila do? You guys see your money? Of course not. It doesn’t go to DOCARE. Whoa! They got new truck, new computers, \[unclear\] office where they need the man power. Chair Lodge: \[Unclear\] P. Pacheco: ….down here. It doesn’t go. So where it starts from the top and the top is the ones that are doing this. We have representative right here, Mr. Ishii. We have people in the state – go to them – I paid my own way to go down there to testify. To testify to let them know that we the people of these islands \[unclear\] we support fishing and hunting is our lifestyle. So \[unclear\]. You keep taking away, taking away \[unclear\]. \[Unclear\]. \[Unclear\] the sanctuary \[unclear\] they spend millions of dollars \[unclear\] now. The grass is all over the place. That’s where the money goes, people. Now they don’t work with us they want to do what they want to do. Chair Lodge: Patrick, we have other people that want to testify. P. Pacheco: I’ll be done in a minute. You know, apparently, I have this to say and I’m sorry Mr. Lodge but now \[unclear\]. When you guys gonna call on me \[unclear\] agenda \[unclear\] let everybody know what is \[unclear\] and how many 20