2018-07-02 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – July 2, 2018 TL: I appreciate that. BKK: Mr. Kunewa this is Kalei Kossow from Kona. What do you see – what do you think GMAC or the Game Management should do and what do you kind of see your vision as – I’m just curious – because you’re a very passionate person and you’re doing this for your nephew, your children? DK: I wish I could just – what I’m thinking, you know, just bring it out – but it’s kinda, you know, I mean, it’s just worrying about my children, grandchildrens and once all these get cut off, you know, once we lose all the access and whatever and all these companies buying, I mean, all the land getting shut off – the States – whatever and we, we don’t want the suffer the kids – my grandchildren are going suffer – they the ones going, you know, coming up and trying to make a living – I going ten years or five years I going be gone already cause I Iiving on borrowed time but now I worrying about what’s happening, you know, now cause they’re – but I now going know when I \[unclear\] my cousin them – now I kinda worried now what they doing behind our backs and what cause I’m now worrying about mine, you know, but thank you guys... DK: One thing is – I know they got huntings all these pig hunting da kine but there are a lot of family who kids not even to in the that organizations or what they just trying to make a living, you know, and that’s the ones I worrying about, you know, the ones on a – just trying to make the living, you know... TL: That’s what we’re worried about and it’s also who Abraham is worrying about – this organization that he just created is exactly that – so you’ve got something to say now... AA: Abraham Antonio, that’s exactly the reason why I’m gonna start up Pig Hunters of Hawaii again because like he said there’s a lot of young generation now that is just stuck at home playing video games and, you know, other things and just – not being guided in the right way and hopefully we – everybody that I’m talking to that seem very educational – I can come up and we can come up with a program to help out with this problem that we get. The other problem is as we all know we have that active lava situation down in the lower Puna district and I hunt all in down that – in that area – that’s a lot of land loss – there’s a lot of young generation like what you said – nineteen, eighteen or whatever – twenty year-olds that get young parents that they cannot support their kids and stuff like that and when I was that age that’s why I was hunting down in that area – granted you hunting in State land which is Malama-Ki Forest Reserve, which now of that forest reserve is half taken now – it’s half of that forest, maybe a little more by now is taken. That’s a big chunk of that forest. All the other lands that people hunt down there is all 22