2018-11-13 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – November 13, 2018 BUDGET REPORT TL: Stanley Mendes moved for approval of the Budget as submitted. Seconded by James O’Keefe and carried unanimously by voice vote. STATEMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC OLD BUSINESS: a. Kanalu Sproat, DOFAW-West Hawai’i – update Pu’uanahulu, Pu’u Wa’awa’a, Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP) KS: I’ve had conversations with State Parks manager over there and they’re open to us opening a special hunt there – I didn’t really want to talk about it yet cause we don’t have anything set or final – but we have been in discussion with to open a special hunt in the area – to answer the question specifically about is it possible to move animals from there over to Puuanahulu or Puuwaawaa – is it possible – sure. Is it likely? Probably not. So – is it possible – yeah, it’s possible, like I said – is it likely? I don’t think so mostly because we couldn’t remove all of the goats in one – anyways – and there are a lot of compliance issues with federal and state endangered species act which would really limit what kind of funding we could use to do that type of a project and so I don’t have any funding that would necessarily allow me to do that on a large scale – but I would prefer to go the route of trying to do a special hunt in the area – which is what we’ve been working on. TN: Your special hunting – who’s part of your group that you’re talking with besides State Parks? KS: In the meeting that day we also had people from Aquatic Resources, I think, and Auntie Kuulei was there – Keakealani. That was that one meeting – that one day was almost a year ago that we had the meeting – that was it – so it wasn’t – we haven’t expanded much from the one-time sit down. Like I said – they were open to the idea. It’s in our court now to come back with them with a proposal – we’ve just been extremely busy on moving along with that. TN: Did you have any hunters? KS: Not then – because it was kind of preliminary – I didn’t want to include anybody yet – as we move forward – I would include hunters. TN: Would you include hunters in the planning? 2