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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting
<br />Minutes — June 20, 2016
<br />Ike: Only because there was a lot of push back from the community.
<br />CY: Well, they did it.
<br />Ike: Well, I mean, but there was some openness to that, right?
<br />CY: I mean, these things — there was somebody that worked hard on it in
<br />DLNR is all I've got to say.
<br />Ike: So, OK, I don't want to belabor this but there is an opinion that says that
<br />our public policy as it relates to resource management has failed, I mean,
<br />it's quite common to hear that, right, I mean, I don't know if you hear it — I
<br />hear it all the time.
<br />CY: I hear it — but I also hear it from both sides. I hear it from a side that
<br />says...
<br />Ike: Chris? OK. You know, that — I'm sorry to put it this way because, you
<br />know, I'm a conservationist, I'm an environmentalist — but, you know,
<br />when I waste stuff like this — when I go to Puuwaawaa and I don't see
<br />game management going on there — I see a plan — but the plan seems to
<br />be an environmental plan rather than a game management plan, I see our
<br />game management rules and regs and basically they are on the take side
<br />but they do not deal with the sustainable side of that — do we do breeding,
<br />do we do culling, yeah, I mean, there is none of that. If you look at our
<br />laws — and so — then you have to say constitutionally are we really fulfilling
<br />the requirements of law? I mean, that's my opinion at this point, but, I have
<br />to ask that question because I keep hearing people say that.
<br />TL: Can I just make a quick comment here, Ike? Um, you know, DLNR, BLNR
<br />have a large number of constituencies and you're not serving all of them
<br />equally and, fishermen, I'm hearing, you know, I'm not that familiar with
<br />the fishing issues, but, you know, I'm hearing it pretty loud and clear
<br />tonight that there's been no attempt to work with the consumptive users of
<br />that area — to manage that area. Ah, he said, ah, you know, either this way
<br />or that way kind of a thing, ah, it doesn't seem like there's any attempt to
<br />bring these groups together and say OK, this is our goal, you know, how
<br />do we come together for a solution. It seems that it was, well, we're just
<br />gonna working on a ban. And that brings up my other question — you said
<br />that somebody brought this request to you, to have the administrative rule
<br />change?
<br />CY: This was basically a community initiative by people outside the DLNR.
<br />They had worked with the DLNR to formulate the administrative rule
<br />change.
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