2016-06-20 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes — June 20, 2016 we have to go that far? Because we going have that retaliation — we going — everybody that come to one meeting like this — you know who I tell them I scared of? That, that, that quiet guy — that stay in the corner listen to everything we get to say and say, you know what, it's a done deal — we cannot fish in that area. You know what going happen? That guy's gonna retaliate because he get one family. CY: Well, all... KD: We get all this — no — we get all this — the State no more money for this — we get welfare — we get this — we get that. Local — you hunt — you fish — you no starve — but how can we hunt or how can we fish if you guys keep closing things down for the sake of management — ten years. CY: What I'd like to say to that is that roughly 99% of the Kona Coast is not affected by this — first of all — and secondly there has been shown in that there's a great spillover effect from having protected areas that it will increase the number of fish in the adjacent areas — the nearby areas. So this is again — this is not something that is meant to take food out of people's mouths but is intended as a measure that will help enhance fishing in the long term. NP: Chris — could you tell me when this is gonna come across... CY: Don't' know, you may contact the Governor's office. KD: You know, Chris, I just going on record man. I just sorry if things happen, then, I just try to be the middle guy, I going say what I got to say, I apologize — I thank you for coming here — but I going say what everybody's thinking but they no like say and when you going get retaliation — they no care if you DLNR — they no care if you're Hawaiian Homes — Bishop Estate — Board of Land and Natural whatevers — they no care because the bottom line is who telling them what they can do and what they cannot do — it's not even from here — you understand me? Not even from here. TL: I just wanted to clarify one thing with you — when I went back to Puu Makaala [unclear] I wasn't there to try and mitigate or go back in, ah, reopen those cases — it was just to show that there's a pattern it seems with DLNR or the Board, um, in that they don't seem and, you know, he's saying it and everybody here — the people in Kona — all seem to be saying that, um, there's no effort of DLNR to bring these groups together to come to a solution to things and which is why our game commission, is important to hunters, ah, so that we can be working with DLNR, to come to — to solve some of these issues that are out there and a ban is ban, I mean, it's not management, in my opinion, and other predators and other 19