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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting <br />Minutes – April 15, 2019 <br /> <br /> <br />LU: My name is Leo Uchi, I live in Kona. From Japan, we have Hunter Kunio <br />Katagari, TV Director Satoshi Soyama, Cameraman Takashi Enomia, and <br />friend Jeremy King from Kona. <br /> <br />BKK: Thank you for coming in. We do appreciate it. So good to see people from <br />outside of the United States – who share the same passion as we do. <br /> <br />LEO: So in Japan we have a lot of wild boars and the farmers and even the regular <br />people got some issues from the wild animals and we heard that Hawaii had <br />a lot of farming place and had an issue from the wild pigs and he want to <br />know what is the issue exact issue – how big is the issue and also he wants <br />to share his own snare – wild trap – to everybody. He can demonstrate that <br />trap. Thank you. <br /> <br />BKK: Thank you. To answer some of that – part of that question and I think <br />Abraham probably can talk a little bit more about it because he’s more the – <br />on the ground person – Abraham did you want to answer that one part of the <br />question? <br /> <br />AA: It’s a pretty big issue throughout the state. Our trap system – we – the traps <br />that we use is drop door traps and we also use some snares, um, people <br />make for themselves their snares with ropes and surgical rubber and the drop <br />door traps is just made out of two by four fabric \[unclear\] all together with trap <br />on the inside. <br /> <br />BKK: Thanks, I didn’t mean to put you on the spot there, but, thank you guys for <br />coming out and as far as the snare goes – it’s a little hard to see you on the <br />screen so I was wondering if you can give Donna some of the information and <br />then we can put it into our minutes for the next meeting. <br /> <br />NP: In Japan, are the wild pigs of value? Do people use them as a resource? <br /> <br />Leo: In Japan, many years ago we ate the meat but nowadays we don’t eat much <br />meat from the mountain \[speaking in Japanese\] <br /> <br />TN: The pigs that you folks snare of use a trap on – are they consumed by the <br />public or those that catch them – the hunters – are they used as a sustainable <br />meat product? <br /> <br />Leo: Yeah, hunters will eat the meat everything. <br /> <br />TN: Are there laws in Japan to totally eradicate the wild boards? <br /> <br />Leo: Yes. <br />4 <br /> <br /> <br />