2016-03-21 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – March 21, 2016 for fenced units – is there, ah, size of a fenced unit that this would be used in and if so, is there a guarantee that – to, at least the public concern, that none of these pigs that are – is this an inside or outside would get in or out, ah, during a process like this? ?: To tell you the truth – I don’t know off hand. The number that I’d heard before was a hundred acres. RK: A hundred acre size… ?: Yeah. RK: ….like something that can be monitored really well with fences… ?: Yeah… RK: ….and \[unclear\]. ?: And I – don’t quote me on that, I can’t remember exactly what that fence size is and in this particular document – I’d encourage you to go read the document. RK: OK. Because – then the other concern was, um, I know the Keauhou project – they had the area dispersal issue and all of that but, um, another issue was the ground boxes actually got broken into and the pigs ate the ground boxes which was actually the high concentration, which killed a bunch of them. ?: Um-hum… RK: Um… Is there – and they put the ground boxes on the perimeter so that you catch the ingress and egress of these rodents – to keep ‘em down, apparently I’m assuming. Is there any, um guarantee or something that these things – they’re gonna stay on these fenced units – is there any guarantee that these things are gonna be maintained so that someone doesn’t take home one of these sick ones or something like that, that’s actually outside of the fence? ?: Ah, yeah, they system’s designed so the pigs can’t get to it is generally… RK: But they, oh, I was told they broke the boxes – like the plastic boxes… ?: Well, that, that – you’re talking about the Keauhou drop thing… RK: Yeah, yeah. 17