2014-10-27 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes —October 27, 2014 back in the turn of the century where they were doing all this market hunting —where they depleted animal resources —were required management and people actually stood up to do that—there is no difference from an eradication. It's doing the same things as far as we're concerned. It's wasting the resource. And there's no management by science up there —the number is zero — it's not management. Anyway, that's the gist of our meeting today. D. Yoshina: This is Ike. I went to the meeting and I found Colonel Peterson to be really out front and forthright. I don't think he's hiding anything. I think its incumbent upon the resource-user communities to kinda go out and take advantage of the opportunity to participate with him — to do what he wants to do. I would encourage hunters to get together with fishermen and other users of the forest like Ryan has suggested and try to work together because we can all work as separate entities but, you know, we're stronger together as a community if we come together and talk about, for me resource management, rather than just hunting or fishing or gathering. I think our goals should be the wise use of the resources in Hawaii and we've got to learn to talk with each other. We cannot continue down this path — there are too many — everyday you have more and more people on the island. You have more — you know you have a limited resource base and you have growing demands on that resource base. We gotta work together— I think, you know, my own opinion on this and it's only my personal opinion is that we have a Board of Land and Natural Resources that should be doing what we're talking about. And since they have not done what they are supposed to be doing, I think over time, what you have had is a second level of bureaucracy put in place — those are all the commissions — and as you will look at the commissions and find out they're all advisory — so you have no power except to advise — and yet, you have a land board which is supposed to be setting resource management policy in the state — and they haven't even taken care of such things as our game management. And for me game management includes fishing, hunting, and guys who go out and just take in nature. And I think that's what we have to get to —we have to — in this state talk seriously about resource management. So, you know, I'm just requesting that we all work together with the different people in our community and move towards what I consider to be the most important subject or issue in the state and that is the use of our natural resources. I was happy with the discussion I had with Colonel Peterson this morning because he seems to be an open guy and he seems to be extending his help to move us in a direction that he shares with us. So I would hope that all of you guys take that into consideration. He talked about 55, 1 forget what he called it— guzzlers — at PTA and he wants them to be operational — so he's looking for volunteers. As an example of his extension of his willingness to work with the community. So it seems to me that if we're serious about— in this case hunting —we should talk to him about that. He says he needs 22