2017-11-8 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – November 8, 2017 DS: Right. The point was to try to come up with some balanced program for being able to do game in there. KS: So the HCP is meant to give us an incidental take license which allows for take of endangered species. So right now we cannot take – but if we implement the plan and everything goes into – is in order – that gives us license that allows us to take or kill an endangered species because we’re mitigating for that within the fences. Sorry that just answers that question you have. DY: We have a difference of that definition on what management is so my question has always been how do we work with you guys so that we can satisfy these demands that everybody has, you know, the different interest groups. \[tape goes blank\] DS: The game management advisory commission – a representative from each island working with our people to work on different game issues and, I mean, part of the thing like this – we just start off – I think are probably pretty good – we probably agree on about 95% of things we’re just start off in the 5% that we’re having issues with, you know, I think actually we have a pretty good program and I would like to work with the hunters and work on the things that are positive – come up with a list of things that we can do – not argue about the definition of game management or whether we’re doing quote unquote game management but are we running an effective public hunting program... DY: I think what you’re hearing from people is that it is not and that’s why you have all this emotion. I think hunters here want to have a sustainable hunting program. They want to have mammals in that mix and what has come about or what the perception is that it’s a secondary concern of DOFAW or DLNR for a variety of reasons and what I’m asking is and I’ve asked this for many years is how can we balance that? Because we all live here. DS: I think we are balancing it and I think we do a really good job with balancing it, quite frankly. Same thing with the game management so we talk but it’s just game, game, game. I’m like – we can’t just talk about game we’ve got to talk about all the other things too – we have to talk about native resources... WJC: But you guys only talk about endangered, endangered, endangered. What we are here to talk about is game. We are a game management advisory commission – that’s why we’re here. WJC: That’s why you hear this from us all the time. But all we ever hear is plants this and birds that and plants this and insects here and all of that stuff and bottom line – like I said earlier – the view of the people in DLNR in Honolulu is not to do any game management – that’s what you’re telling me all one 10