2016-06-20 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes — June 20, 2016 TL: Thank you. TN: Aloha, good evening — Teresa Nakama — regarding about the ten-year ban. I was part of the process — part of going to the meetings — I was part of Kona Hawaiian Civic Club back in 2012 — we sent a letter against the ten-year ban. The Kona Hawaiian Civic Club is part of the Kaupulehu Marine Advisory and back of July 26, 23 — we discussed — they discussed about and I'll read it to you from their minutes that the fishery managed plan that allows for sustainable fishery practice was always the goal. I don't understand that. From that meeting back in 2013 — the project is now called the Marine Reserve and there's no verbage of sustainable fishing practices in that area. The ten-year ban violates Article 12, Section 7 of the Native Gathering Rights is now made Hawaiian criminals if they fish in that area. It doesn't make sense. There's science they didn't share all through the years that I've been in their meetings — they didn't share their science with us. It wasn't public knowledge. We requested for those scientific reports they say they had — not one was given to Kona Hawaiian Civic Club. They haven't explained to us as to what depleted the marine resources. They have six injection wells there. They keep on developing. It's a porous area. If they're development blocks any of the lava tubes there — they've stopped the runoff from the mountain — the kanewai [sic] from the mountain to the ocean that gives the nutrients to the Iimu and that's why there's an abundance of turtle, cause there's an abundance of nutrients, therefore there's abundance of species. The fishermen tell me they catch fish. If the fishermen told me they didn't catch fish then there is a problem. But if fishermen tells me they're catching fish there isn't a problem — that is a ground area that our kumu hula Michael Lee informed KMLEC the area will always have an abundance of marine resources because of the kanuwai [sic] that feeds the area. It is a protective shelf — nature protects itself. There is really no need for a ten-year ban because there's no depletion of marine resources and they have not shown us their science report because their science report will show us an abundance of marine species. So I don't understand the BLNR voting for this. I don't understand why they're pushing for this. Because they can't prove to us prior to this proposal going through that there is a depletion of marine resources there — they have not shown nor given us scientific proof for that nor have they given you scientific proof to vote on this — nor have they given the Governor scientific proof. That's my speech. Thank you. RD: Robert Duerr - When we ask the question — who represents the fishermen and the fisher -folk in the State of Hawaii — we come up with no one and we see — what we saw in the February public meeting was we and Mr. Yuen was there, Dr. Anderson, head of DAR was there and Suzanne Case was there. The room was packed with primarily proponents of the ten-year ban. But what we saw happening was — we saw the biologist on the Kona side — Dr. Walsh — who ran both the public portion of the 31