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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting <br />Minutes – November 28, 2017 <br />rules and we have laws that says snares are illegal but you still can purchase <br />them... <br /> <br />TN: On private property... <br /> <br />TL: No – on public property. <br /> <br />TN: No, this is on private land. <br /> <br />TL: Private land you can use a snare. <br /> <br />TN: You can use a snare? The law does not... <br /> <br />TL: Not in residential – just in the farms... <br /> <br />TN: How does that work – I’m sorry – educate me? <br /> <br />It doesn’t state where it is legal. But it does not state – that it’s not – my <br />understanding - I got to go back and read it again It doesn’t state that it’s not <br />illegal on large private agricultural lands. \[Unclear not speaking in mic\] <br /> <br />TL: Do you remember when we submitted that bill – the anti-snaring bill? Where <br />we got all our grief from was from hunters – in fact, the Hawaii Hunting <br />Association had a big issue there too because on Oahu these guys do an <br />awful lot of snaring on private land and when they saw that bill and, you know, <br />we were saying there’s no snaring anywhere – and they took offense to it so <br />that actually killed that particular bill for us – that snaring bill – but one of the <br />things that came out of that bill was an agreement and I don’t know if this is <br />being adhered to or not – but there was a twenty-four hour check requirement <br />– so you couldn’t leave an animal on a snare for more than 24 hours without <br />checking that snare. You couldn’t leave them in a trap for more than 24 hours <br />without checking that trap. I don’t know how – but that is something, you <br />know, again, when you talk about the humaneness of what we do – we do <br />have obligations to the game we hunt as well and, you know, cruelty is not <br />one of the things that we’re promoting. <br /> <br />WJC: I would say that’s probably a question for DOCARE on the snares – catching <br />the neighbor’s dogs, um, and they should be able to – I would think they <br />would – they should be able to know whether it was done in a legal area or <br />not...And pursue that. That would be what I would tell them to call DOCARE. <br /> And pursue that. <br /> <br />{Dialogue} <br /> <br />JM: To clarify, OK... HRS 711–1109.37 Cruelty to Animals by trapping. A person <br />commits the offense of cruelty to animals by trapping if the person <br />16 <br /> <br /> <br />