The Garden Island. [volume] (Lihue, Kauai, H.T.) 1902-current, 1922-08-08
Fish and Game Club
Holds Special Meeting
MANY IMPORTANT DECISIONS
ON LOCAL CONDITIONS
ARE MADE

The Kauai Fish and Game Club
held an important meeting at the
home of DR.. Kuhns last Thursday
evening About &c members of the
club were present at the netting,
which was preceded by buffet
supper which was given by the
members wives under the direction
of Mrs. Kuhns.
The principal object of the meet
ing was to hear report from II.
l.. Kelly. executive officer for the
Hawaii Fish and Game Commission,
on the work that the commission is
doing in ergard to the game situa-
tion.
MIR. Kelly gave a short resume of
doing in stocking the fields with
game birds and the streams with
game fish. lie then stated that all
this work would be lost unless the
sportsmen of the islands would CO.
operate with the commission in pro
venting game hogs from extermin-
ating the birds and fish. This CO.
operation is to help the commits
sion in the way of suggestion for
as an insistence that the law be en-
forced.
After Mr.. Kelly's talk there was
considerable discussion on the mat
ter of the trout that were planted
in the streams at Kokee two years
ago. Mr.. Kelly reported that the
fish were making excellent progress
and the fish streams would be ready
for fishing next summer. Mr.. Kelly
stated that the fish ard game COM
mission would like to have sug-
gestions from the sportsmen of Ka-
uai in regard to rules governing the
fishing of trout in the Kauai streams.
The club then asked for some sug-
gestions from Mr.. Kelly and he
stated that in his opinion the sea-
son should not be open after July
18th owing to the fact the fish
spawned early that spring would be
big enough after that date to hook
themselves on fly as it was on
these fish that the stocking of the
streams the following year depend
ed, it was necessary to have the
season open early to protect them.
He suggested that the season should
not exceed six weeks ard that the
limit should be ten fish day and
25 a week.
The club then discussed Mr.. Kelly's
suggestion at length and finally de.
cded to have the season open from
May 18th to June 18th, and that the
limit be five fish a day regardless
of weight and the limit for a week
be fifteen.
The subject of the limit on phea-
SAINT and doves was then taken up
in the Willamette Valley in Ore
gon where pheasant at one time
We're so plentiful that the limit was
200 a day and the season was opCn
three months. AS the birds began
to get scarcer the limit was cut
down and row the limit is two a
day and the season is open two
weeks.
With this thought in mind the
club voted to suggest to the COM
mission that laws for Kauai be
changed so as to make the phea-
SAINT limit three a day and thirty
a season. Tie club also suggested
that the dove limit for Kauai be
reduced to 10 a day.
Mr.. Kelly then told how H. p.
Faye had agreed to set aside a por-
tion of Kekaha as a game preserve
and that the commission hoped, if
they could secure enough funds, to
start a game farm there. The club
voted to assist the commission in
every way possible in their efforts
to start the game farm and elect
ed Mr.. Faye member of the club for
cooperation i'm protecting and prop
agating game on Kauai.