My Journey & Tips
Hunting In Hawaii:
Hunting in Hawaii is unlike hunting in any other state. Not only is it the unique environment and terrain but also the rules. The rules and regulations about what you can hunt, where you can hunt, and when you can hunt are some of the many aspects that sets Hawaii apart in terms of hunting.
Hunting Seasons:
In Hawaii there are year round hunting season for certin game species. Some of these speices are wild sheep, pigs, goats, and axsis deer. Hawaii has these year round season becasue these animals are invasive and have a negative impact on the envirment and native speices. Hawaii has no apex predators that can hunt and manage the invasive speices population. The only predator they have are humans. The year round season allow people to manage the increasing wild sheep, pigs, goats, and axsis deer populations.
Hunting Areas:
In Hawaii you can hunt in a handful of different places. If you have property you can hunt on that property year round for wild pigs, goats, and sheep without a bag limit. If you don’t have property there are plenty of public land hunting areas that open up depending on the time of the year. For hunting areas you need to purchase hunting game tags. For finding these hunting areas you can visit the DLNR website. Additionally, Hawaii also has government land that is open as hunting areas. A big one on the Big Island is PTA which you can find information about at iSportsman. There are also youth hunts in some areas designed specifically to let younger people get into hunting. For youth hunts you need to be younger than 15 years old and have game tags.
Hunting’s Importance to Hawaii:
Wild boar, sheep, goat, and axis deer populations are rapidly increasing and with that the native environments and species are decreasing. Pigs are a good example of this because they are a fast reproduction species and can double their population in as little as 4 months and their annual typical population growth rate is 20% to 50% without intensive control. Hunters are one of the main factors that control the spread of invasive species. Hunters even out the balance of invasive species to native species and overall help keep the native species and environments intact.
