2016-06-20 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes — June 20, 2016 making bans of that magnitude and letting fishermen's just don't and go and get their gathering rights and what have you, right, we doing get one over populated impact on my area, and that going be one problem for me and my district and when I say resident, I say district. So when you see what we do out there — this is the kind stuff we no tolerate because we watching from on far for see, OK, where these guys going go then. You not thinking that. You not thinking that, that fisherman that has to get his subsistence going come in my district and when I get my district not residents — my district — then we going get one problem, Chris. CY: Don't you, don't you get fishermen from all — I don't know — what is your district? KD: Ka'u district. CY: You get people from all over coming into Ka'u... KD: Exactly, so when you start closing — if you start closing areas around this island — uh, uh, uh, brah, you — I just letting you guys know that this is the kind of stuff for finances — you can roll your eyes partner — you can — you can, cause I going tell you the same thing I tell ranchers and like how they open up forests, now, when things start going crazy, no? Then you guys going start saying oh, wait, wait, wait — how come like this, how come like that? I giving you guys — I just trying to be the middle man — to vigilantes when you tell they cannot feed their family — not because everybody get their residence and they get money — I looking at the ones that actually use their rights to go feed their family. Do you understand me - that's what I'm getting across — roll your eyes all you like partner... CY: I'm not rolling my eyes I'm looking at you eye -to -eye... KD: No, no, no, I see `em, I see `em... The bottom line is this — I very upset because the impact on my area when guys start telling, hey, I no can go here because this happened — I no can go there because this happened, you know what I'm saying, so because we getting all these people impacting in Ka'u, Ka'u, Ka'u — my question to you is when is enough, is enough with this closing? When is this gating communities enough, you know what I mean? Why is it so much that we need the money for keep our departments open so we going fund'em — fund these from whoever, see, because same thing with ranchers, when they come see me — they get notice in everybody's driveway throughout the whole Ka'u community that shoot cows and then they start panicking because they went go lock the gate, see what I'm saying, when they start doing things of that kind of magnitude — but when we get young boys or whoevers setting fire to real estate offices out there — then we get one problem — then we go start reacting — that's what I'm trying to say — that's why I get angry — why do