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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting
<br />Minutes – October 24, 2016
<br />PC: Absolutely. There are ways to control and in some cases eradicate
<br />rodents and mongoose without rodenticides – yes, but there are certain
<br />situations where it’s almost impossible without extreme great effort to do
<br />so...
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<br />JB: Is that because of large, large areas or something like that?
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<br />PC: Large areas, large populations or very dangerous situations where it
<br />would be impractical for us to put people in those situations.
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<br />JB: Right. I think it just concerns a lot of us, you know, rodenticides being out
<br />there and once it’s gone – it’s, you know, out there – it’s out there and it
<br />can get into a lot of things and poison our children and, and hunters and
<br />everybody. You just – you just never really know and so I would just ask
<br />you to please, please, ah, strongly consider using them as little as
<br />possible if not at all and then my other question is – would you – my buddy
<br />makes like the best smoked meat on earth and would you eat it if the pig
<br />had eaten a rat with rodenticide? You know? I mean, we all have to
<br />consider that and a lot of hunters pride themselves with eating the meat
<br />that doesn’t have anything bad in it, you know, you don’t know what you’re
<br />getting when you buy something, but when you, when you hunt it you’re –
<br />you’re usually pretty sure that’s it’s healthy and I’m just pleading with you
<br />to use as little if not any at all, ah, especially on our island, um, but
<br />wherever you’re – you guys are working.
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<br />PC: Well, I mean, that’s a valid concern and there are a lot of situations where,
<br />ah, especially doing conservation where, ah, we will only pick areas that
<br />will, um, not have those kinds of interactions – so, I mean, if, if, a lot of
<br />conservation is dependent upon laying the ground work ahead of your
<br />doing those actions so, um, if it would – in areas that are, of course, game
<br />management areas, ah, those are less likely for us to, to be interested in
<br />doing these kinds of conservation actions anyway, um, so it’s largely that,
<br />ah, these kinds of interactions between, ah, the two, ah, conservation
<br />actions and hunting actions will probably be in, in, ah, different areas to
<br />begin with. So…
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<br />TN: Excuse me – this is Teresa. Um, how far does a rodent travel or a
<br />mongoose travel from the bait area whether it leaves the bait conservation
<br />area and ends up by the beach or the mountain. Have you tracked them?
<br />Have you tracked the rodents or mongoose as to how far they travel? So if
<br />you bait them in a conservation area – have you found them outside of the
<br />conservation area – and I’m worried about our pueos – that if the rat and
<br />mongoose eats this poisonous substance – I’ll call it what it is – it’s
<br />poisonous – and they go out of the conservation area and then now
<br />they’re hunted by the pueos and other species, I mean, have you folks
<br />tracked the distance of their – how far they can travel...
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