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<br />Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting <br />Minutes – September 15, 2014 <br />M. Bartell: Or if, if we find there are too many pigs in a certain part of the <br />island and we want to eliminate some of those pigs to bring the population down, <br />we have to go through a process? <br /> <br />L. Hadway: Yes. <br /> <br />M. Bartell: Yes. <br /> <br />Chair Lodge: \[Unclear\] <br /> <br />L. Hadway: Same rules. That’s the one difference we could do. We could do a – <br />like if it was an agricultural situation or causing damage we could ask for a <br />special animal control… <br /> <br />Chair Lodge: \[Unclear\] native forest as well as agriculture, right? <br /> <br />L. Hadway: Yeah. And so for example the hunt at Puuwaawaa is being – is <br />happening that way. But to technically change the bag limit - yes, it would have <br />to go through a rules and my preference would be to make that far more flexible <br />and nimble. But we’ve been dealt the cards that we have and I’m trying to finish <br />that process and then if we could be more creative in the future and think about <br />ways that we could be more efficient, I’m totally open to that. <br /> <br />T. Lodge: I have a question about that – cause I know that Dick Hofflinger <br />brought up that specific issue. Why wasn’t that included in the new rules? <br /> <br />L. Hadway: You know, I, I don’t know the whole history there you’re talking <br />about – half of my career at DOFAW that wasn’t involved in this process – but I <br />would think that moving forward if there’s a way to study the statute I’d say with <br />like a legal fellow or something and you guys could discuss some of the kinds of <br />ideas that you have – the things you’d like to see being more flexible – then <br />make sure that the statute reflects the ability to do that, as I’m learning, because <br />then we can not be set in this rules making process. You know, even for all kinds <br />of other things that we manage, for example, if you start naming specific say if <br />wildlife sanctuaries that you want to add another wildlife sanctuary – you actually <br />have to change the rules to actually add it in. <br /> <br />Chair Lodge: If we were able to look at… <br /> <br />D. Yoshina: Tom, I think we got to remember why these rules are there, right. I <br />mean they’re not there for no reason. <br /> <br />L. Hadway: Right. <br /> <br />D. Yoshina: And it took a lawsuit to get this thing changed so that they have to <br />go through the public hearing. I mean, so, you know, if we’re going to start toying <br /> 23 <br /> <br />