2018-11-13 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes 2

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – October 24, 2016 rats or so forth, I think didn’t they try to pick it during the winter months when \[unclear\] low and the birds were gone so the impact was minimized, ah, to some degree. EC: They, um, and I’m not – for me I’m just trying to recollect the timing of... TL: I’m not putting you on the spot there... EC: Yeah... TL: ....I’m just kinda curious as to... EC: ....but they did try to time it so it had the greatest chance of success for removing the rodents – so the key thing was there was monitoring on rodent abundance and the bird abundance and they were weighing the different things on when was the most feasible time. TL: The question that came to me out of that is – that was a fairly thorough, ah, before, you know, ah, pre-study of what they were going to be doing – before they started aerial spraying of rodenticide on Lehua, from what I understand. That is probably going to be far different than what you’re gonna be available to you here, um, in, you know, in that, ah, specific, you know, conditions before you start distributing this rodenticide – especially in the forest. EC: Yeah... And I, I think, you know, one of the key things I look at – and I think it’s important to step back, is when I look at the weighing of what tools one should use – I, I, I wouldn’t immediately go to the use of aerial broadcast in situations – I think there are certain places or certain situations that, that may be the tool, um, you and I talked on the phone... TL: Um-hum... EC: ....for instance about the, um, the new, ah, new traps that are being produced in New Zealand... TL: Right… NP: Excuse me. Dr. Campbell could you move your speaker a little closer to your voice there, um, people are having a hard time... EC: OK. No worries, thank you... NP: Thank you... 13