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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting <br />Minutes – November 13, 2018 <br />KS: We’re harvesting 400 animals a year – just goats in Puuwaawaa and it hasn’t <br />gone down or up in the four or five years I’ve been here. <br /> <br />TL: How many animals are there? <br /> <br /> How do you know they haven’t gone up or down? <br /> <br />KS: I don’t know. <br /> <br /> So you ;can get upset about it but the number of animals being harvested <br />every single year hasn’t changed and I’m just being honest with you – I don’t <br />know. I’m trying to find out and we have plans to do that... <br /> <br />NP: I think the last time you said that the US Fish and Wildlife wouldn’t permit <br />carrying capacity of the land – is that true? <br /> <br />KS: I can’t really speak for them. I can say based on my interactions with them – I <br />don’t think they would – but it’s not... <br /> <br /> The US Fish and Wildlife... <br /> <br />KS: The US Fish and Wildlife has – they can kind of dictate how we spend the <br />money that they give us so whether they allow it or not is based is how we <br />spend federal grants from them. <br /> <br />TN: In allowing hunting – is it seasonal – is it quarterly – I mean, four, five times a <br />year? <br /> <br />KS: Hunting at Puuanahulu is weekends and State holidays starting the first <br />weekend of March to the last weekend of June. Hunting at Puuwaawaa right <br />now is starting the first weekend in August – weekends and State holidays for <br />archery four weekends and for muzzle loader the next three weekends after <br />that. <br /> <br /> The information is online. On our website. <br /> <br />KS: I’m not interested in carrying capacity because that’s much more animals than <br />I think is reasonable to have on the landscape. I am interested in trying to <br />improve and increase the hunting opportunity. Carrying capacity is a very old <br />theoretical concept. It’s not wrong, it’s not that – but it’s not something that I’m <br />gonna actively go out and try to find out that this area can support however <br />many sheep – I’m more interested in providing hunting opportunities and <br />increasing those opportunities and monitoring the population on what it does. <br />We haven’t done that as an agency and I’m trying to start that now – the <br />monitoring of how that population fluctuates. We don’t have the information <br />and I’m trying to start to gather that – so that I mean – that’s why I say that. <br />5 <br /> <br /> <br />