2017-11-28 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – November 28, 2017 TN: The County receives nothing from it. TL: No. TN: And so we need to look at the state GMAC and support their efforts in order for those funds to come down to the County. TL: It’s not going to come to the County. It’s gonna come into managing... TN: This management of the state so that we can benefit here. Thank you. TL: I’d like you folks to be thinking about this-in order to use this money more efficiently for us is to maybe raise the hunting license fees. We would like to – if nothing else – get rid of the stamps and all these all other things that you’re doing and just have one hunting license fee that’s thirty dollars – it’s thirty or forty dollars – whatever it is – if the state’s gonna do something for me and my grandchildren – I don’t mind spending fifty bucks – other states it’s one hundred, two hundred dollars some of them. But they get something for their money and, you know, if I get something for my money – hey, I’ll spend it – Black Friday, right? So, anyway, we’d like to have you folks think about that – any comments from the public on this? Yes... TS: I can catch fifty pigs a year but maybe somebody else only wants to go hunting once or twice a year and I gotta pay fifty dollars for that? TL: You’re paying thirty now... TS: You know what I’m getting at, right? WJC: Yeah, that makes sense. TL: No, that does and maybe tags would be the way to do that, you know, like they do in many states, - you purchase a deer tag or five deer tags – or like we have – you can buy one turkey tag or you can buy three turkey tags. TS: Oh yeah – this is Tony Sylvester speaking. Does Joey have any input on that? You could keep the hunting license fee lower and a person could buy, five or ten tag-if you need more – then you go get more and you get charged with a tag. If have to pay ten bucks to go hunt a pig – that’s nothing, right? Now I might go hunting more. 13