2019 02-12 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – February 12, 2019 thought and take on it knowing a little bit about it – they stopped slaughtering small animals due to the fact that the inspector from the USDA – from the federal side – is a member of PETA. NP: Tell us about PETA... SH: People for Equal Treatment of Animals and basically, the big brouhaha started – they had trouble with one pig that it took multiple shocks to do the pig in prior to slaughter and the second one that was involved – the pig refused to go and it got drug in to a place to where they could disperse it and this lady has had posted on Facebook being a member and pigs are one of her pet items to protect – so my thought is if that is occurring how much would PETA be involved in the division itself as far as the inspectors – and if that’s inhumane – it makes me wonder how far it can spread out – meaning, if you’re gonna load something in your truck you have to have an inspector there to make sure that you’re not treating it inhumanely to get it to the Slaughter House to be slaughtered and it’s way over reach and just based on that is where my concern was for our community. But now that... TN: Please contact Councilman Tim Richard’s Office and ask them for any progress they’ve gotten so far in reaching out to the House and Senate – Hawaii State Legislation. PRESENTATION JMG: Aloha everybody. My name is Jaerick Medeiros-Garcia and I am the acting president for Pepeekeo Association. I’m the chairman for Pepeekeo Shoreline Fishing Association. Thank you guys for your guys’ time. Sorry I’m late. So, yeah, I just want to talk about what happened since the spill – that’s not one spill but it was intentionally released chemical that was in our shoreline from Huhonua and we did have fishermen that did get sick from eating this fish after that intentionally released chemicals. We are right now in a process of trying to get this fluids that was given to me by the whistle blowers – the welders – and we’re sending it off to the mainland to be analyzed – the fact that we – the community members in Pepeekeo cannot trust the Department of Health – the reason I say that is because they’re the very ones that could stop these buys from proceeding with what they’re doing and in my eyes I see there’s nothing good coming out of this facility down there – with all EPA done from the very beginning, really, they was gonna do an EPA right now – tomorrow – or whatever – there’s no numbers to run it off of on where we stand in the pollution of our shoreline. BKK: I just want to do a clarification – when you say facility – just for the record – what facility are you talking about? 3