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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting <br />Minutes – March 21, 2016 <br /> <br />?: Is this on? <br /> <br />?: Yup, I don’t hear anything. But, I mean, so that means you’re gonna have <br />to apply it every year if – I guess – before fledgling or whenever the eggs <br />and, I mean it’s… <br /> <br />?: It’s used, um, yes, we… <br /> <br />?: Otherwise what’s the purpose of doing it once or twice… <br /> <br />?: Yeah, we go into – like on Oahu we do it for elepaio and \[unclear\] and <br />every year during the season we have big boxes, ah, near, near, in every <br />elepaio nesting territory and we apply – we put out Diphacinone kill rats <br />and we took a population from a declining population, ah, at .86 to a <br />slightly increased population so there still is, ah, you know, there’s still <br />some problems with the population but we’ve – taken it from a significantly <br />declined population to an increasing population just doing that – just doing <br />the rat control – and we use snap traps and Diphacinone so it’s been <br />really effective for them. <br /> <br />?: Can they get immune to it like some of the Warfarin resistant rats? <br /> <br />?: It’s possible, yeah. <br /> <br />?: Yeah. Oh… <br /> <br />?: So that’s why we don’t like to just put the same thing out all the time, you <br />know, we like to pulse it so we’ll do that and snap trapping and cage <br />trapping so if animals are resistant or reluctant to take a bait or to go in a <br />trap or one thing or another, ah, if you’ve ever done any predator control, <br />you know, it’s, it’s quite, you know, it’s very strategic, you have to be very <br />persistent and there’s always animals that are resistant to certain methods <br />and whatnot, so it’s, you have to always mix it up to try get – cull the <br />animals. <br /> <br />?: And if we can finalize this, ah, the programmatic EIS – we’ll be able to use <br />all these techniques and be able to control the rats much better, rather <br />than just using one or two different techniques – this will examine the use <br />of a variety of techniques used in combination and it should be more – <br />allow us to be more effective and more quick to respond. <br /> <br />?: Have you looked at the effectivity of, ah, bait stations versus broadcasting <br />this – are you – is one of those more favorable for some reason than the <br />others? <br /> <br /> 9 <br /> <br />