2017-08-22 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – August 22, 2017 IV: STATEMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC: None V. COMMUNICATIONS: A. FINANCIAL REPORT: James O’Keefe moved to accept the Financial Report. Seconded by Dwayne “Ike” Yoshina and carried unanimously by a voice vote. B. LEGISLATIVE REPORT: Update on County of Hawaii Gun Range Progress. TL: Jon Sabati and Ryan Kohatsu are not present. Both provided statements and will be read. WC: Ryan Kohatsu’s statement on State GMAC. Sorry I wrote this really with little time to dress up edit. Update on the last state GMAC meeting last Thursday. Commissioner and Vice Chair Buchanan drafted a letter requesting the BLNR to postpone aerial shooting for Waianae Mountains to seek further community solutions. Also, a committee was formed containing members of the public and Oahu commissioners voted on and approved by the commission – do not know the status of BOD receiving the letter or a response yet. There was an opportunity for priorities on the agenda - between the first meeting and last I went around a few hunting communities and picked up a few things being general consensus and agreements is typically the low-hanging fruit and easiest to accomplish. I rank these items accordingly. Of course, this is just my sense – community can change or add: 1) Poaching – every community or individual hunting on public land on Big Island expresses some level of concern regarding poaching. I have not yet met somebody – someone legally hunting public land that wants poaching to increase or stay at sustained levels. Agreement seems easy on this on so in an effort to curb poaching made a request to publish hunting violations on the DOFAW hunting – the newsletter. If unable to do this, perhaps community can request it of district DOCARE managers and publish it that way. Doing little perceived efforts were not deterring poaching only undermines the legal hunting of community and stifles progress in many areas related to hunting or game management. 2) Hunting Rules – find things that the community can agree on. Create an efficient package for changes and get that done. A big package can take seven years. He does not see why a small one should take even a year. One year, three to four things done a year, is better than seven years maybe getting something done. Does that make sense? 2