2018-07-02 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – July 2, 2018 \[Random conversations as they reconnect\] TL: OK. We’re bound by one rule because we have a video link to Kona. If that video link is separated that we have to stop the meeting until either it gets reconnected or we may have to just terminate the meeting, so we’ll see what we can do, thank you. And Nora’s gonna \[unclear\] so we’ll be taking a break for a couple of minutes. NA: OK. We’re back online. TL: OK. We’re back in session. 3. Richard Hoeflinger – Bird Hunter RH: Can everybody hear me? If there’s something you don’t understand if you just holler I’ll try to address it as we go along or we could do it afterwards – it’s up to you. The only thing is – I got to tell you – I’ve been shooting for 70 years now and you gotta speak up if you want to talk to me – as Mr. O’Keefe well knows. So what we’re gonna talk about is some data that was compiled by DOFAW within the last year or so and this was the result of a continued badgering about what’s going on with game birds. As you probably know there’s quite a bit of effort to keep a handle on the forest birds on the mountain but prior to fairly recently nobody gave much of a damn about the game birds so some of us have been making an issue with that and what we’re gonna see tonight is the DOFAW went back and resurrected the basic harvest record forms and I think they went back about to about 1980 so there’s information from 1980 until – the last I saw was 2017, but I got to tell you it’s not complete. So there’s a lot of missing stuff – so I went back and asked DOFAW to just give me the numbers – I want to do my own manipulating with the numbers – Shaya Honarvar who’s spoke here before gave a presentation at the State GMAC meeting that was held here, I think in March and she presented some – her plotted data – I didn’t agree kinda with the way she arranged it so I rearranged it that made more sense to me and what I did is I took – well, you’re gonna see tonight two things 1) it’s all of the game birds combined. Shaya split out game birds by species – we could go look at that some time later but right now what you’re gonna see is harvest records for all game birds combined on Mauna Kea. That would be on both sides of the mountain, OK? So we basically went back and pulled the harvest record forms from Kilohana on the west side of the mountain and from Hale Pohaku or Puuhuluhulu on the Hale Pohaku side, OK? So... That’s the compilation of species that we’re gonna talk about and again, it’s for all of these species combined and when you see the data you’re gonna see that there’s some years are missing. I did not include any partial data years – it’s only for years that the data were complete. Shaya threw everything kind of together – I wanted to pull ‘em out – I didn’t know quite how to do what I wanted to do looking at incomplete data so I just took it all out. So you’ll see 24