2017-02-17 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes — February 13, 2017 an invasive species tournament simultaneously. With this, we would need community involvement in joining us so this would be in a year planning that we could hold these events simultaneously — one in East Hawaii and one in West Hawaii — but I would need everybody's' thoughts into this fishing tournament. I would involve all the dive shops that are on this side of the island and hoping that the dive shops in Hilo would be involved with the one in Hilo. For the hunting, education and involvement of the children in both these events would be something that we could be as an outreach — on GMAC's part — reaching out to the public. Any thoughts that you may have that you could chime in and help me out here? Hopefully, we can secure a venue for next year. For here, I could secure the Makaeo — the Old Airport Pavilion for the Kona side and the harbor if we do this a year ahead in advance and maybe the civic auditorium and the Bay Front area. These are just my thoughts. Anything else you want to add Tom? TL: Yeah, anybody want to chime in on that? OK. Yeah, the timing of this is something I think we need to work on. TN: I think in mid-September I think there's some kind of — is that the date that you were looking at in September. TL: I don't have that date firm at this moment — after I talked to you I didn't get a chance to look into it but it normally is in late summer or early autumn — September, October — September I think is when we've had them in the past. TN: Cause I'm gonna talk to several hunting that already are in progress of putting on some kind of event and I was hoping that I would find out more information on what they're planning and maybe we could join forces — but this is on West Hawaii side — I'm not sure what's happening on the Hilo side. TL: Yeah, hunting events... TN: I'm not talking about actually hunting tournament — I'm talking about the educational part of hunting - about bringing vendors together — bringing children down to see what's available in the way of hunting activities — but not the actual hunting itself. TL: Right, this hunting -fishing day that they have nationwide — which we might be able to participate along with here — they do and they do bring out vendors. They do bring out opportunities for kids like— archery — Ike and I have been discussing some of the other aspects of it where they'll have a container that they use for 22 or pellet gun or something. There's lots of 30