2018-07-02 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – July 2, 2018 community into one association then we will start to have the power we need because we’re looking at feed – we’re looking at total agriculture here – we’re not looking – we’re looking at sustainable agriculture – we’re looking at something to actually feed the Islands and in other words if you look over the decades we’ve had governor’s who’ve step up and up and up and say we need to turn this around – we need to work back toward food independence and so far, if you look at it – I mean, we are right now at 80 – 90% dependent on those containers. We have to turn it around and I think we can turn it around by forming an association...island-wide that combines everyone into one. TL: There is one. FALA – Hawaii Hunt Fish and Farm Association – and Makani Christianson is the gentleman that runs that organization. So – give me a call later and I’ll get you in touch with Makani – because that is exactly what that organization was formed for and we contributed a bunch of money to it when they started, actually, and they do a pretty effective job – but you’re right about the numbers and James can actually help us with that, too, if he’s willing to go to Maui and Molokai and talk to people over there and come over here and talk to people and get them also part of that – into that – get them aware of the associations, hey, you need unity – we need to have people working together, you know, and things can start moving and so I do appreciate what you’re talking about cause it’s exactly why our HCR 22 – why our resolution was – which she by the way – hit every single door in the legislature except one. RW: I believe our Hawaii Constitution you brought up today how it protects the hunting and fishing. I know our Hawaii Constitution protects agriculture – in other words – we can use the foundations we have to build on this. All we have to do is come together to make it happen and again if “Home Rule” is where we start that’s where we start – we start with our county. In other words, we have the Constitution standing behind us and if we can, you know, again this is one of the reasons that’s drawn me to the County Council – in other words you have a strong County Council that takes this as their primary objective. I mean, to fee ourselves really should be primary. Agriculture should be primary. In other words, what he’s saying in general for his family is for our Island family, for our community and so, I think, you know, in other words I’m a kind of a serious guy as you can tell already. Part of it is, we, you know, to turn it around. We can turn it around but we have to start with an objective that we’re at. If we’re 80-90% dependent right now... BKK: Aloha. I just have a quick question on just your logistics and your pathway of how you started and who you’ve been talking to and where you are right now? JM: I guess you could say I started a long time ago with a lot of my uncles. They used to take me to the mountains when I was a young boy and funny, you 19