2016-06-20 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes — June 20, 2016 Data is available online - administrative record that was done by the folks who were advocating for this and in the DLNR's Board submittal for the May 27th meeting. Ike: Thank you for coming Chris, I appreciate that, but, you know, characteristically we're again having a lot of comments being made by the community, about the management of a resource or the resources and characteristically we're talking about the process and how the process, well, at one end we're saying that the policy is broken and at the other end we're saying that the process is broken — so, how can we improve that so we don't have this, it seems like we go through a process, you know, we went through Puuwaawaa, for example, and we went through a process, and yet, at the back end — the back end meaning today — you know, we hear criticism of what's going on. How do we take care of that? Because their — you know the criticism is basically there isn't balance — so the resource users — I don't mean the non-active user — a non-active user would be somebody who hikes or goes bird watching or all of that — that is a non-active to me. An active user would be someone who goes in and harvests resources and we keep hearing from the guys who go and harvest resources and it's not working and so there's a lot of frustration and that's what we hear tonight, right, and so I'm always, ah, trying to get to some, some movement forward — some balance and there doesn't seem to be balance and we — here — end up listening to all this, you know, the criticisms and the gripes and we really have no authority to do anything except to advise — what I'm trying to get to is how do we fix it? CY: Well, there are always ways and I could talk about some ways that the process could be better in administrative rule making, but I have to say that some of these things are controversial — some of these things people disagree about and at the end of the day you're in a position in the Board that I'm on, you know, you take vote and you make a decision and if we had voted not to adopt this, a lot of people at that meeting — some people would have been happy — the bulk of the public who was at that meeting would have been unhappy and they would have felt that they hadn't been heard and the process was broken and that they had put all this work into this and nothing had come about from it — so there's no real way of avoiding making people feel unhappy and one thing I want to stress for people is, I listen to people — I do listen to people — I listen to what they have to say — at the end — I might not agree with it — I listen, I heard, I might disagree — I didn't not hear what they had to say — I heard what they had to say but I didn't — maybe I didn't agree, all right? That's the — that was what happened at the end. It's not that I tuned you out, um, ah... [Technical difficulty — Chris Yuen can't hear him] And so with this, with this situation here — when it came up to vote, you know, one side is gonna be unhappy and one side is happy, but it's not that the only one side was heard — what heard — what — that decision was made. 13