2016-02-22 Game Managemetn Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes—February 22, 2016 mobile where we can move it around and make it accessible for the butchers to conduct their business. OK? Over here what we have is the mobile slaughter unit side entrance of the chill compartment-- now it gets down pretty cold — about what kind of temperature we're looking at? MA: Oh, that'll take things into the freezing realm very easily... JE: Yeah. MA: But the standard for USDA's requirements it has to be chilled from live carcass temperature down to below 45 degrees within a 24 hours period and the system in here will achieve that in about a 13 to 14 hour period so it's sized to ensure that we will never miss that target. ?: Yeah. JE: Um, then we have the mobile slaughter unit's side entrance to utility, water, back, back-up generator, um, you know I had this revised — did you put in the new one, ah, slide, that I sent you? ?: [Not speaking in mic] JE: What's that? Kona... OK. Well anyway, on this, on the slide itself, we also have hot water, not only cold water, and we also have, um, let's see, batteries, if in case the generator doesn't work and stuff like that so, it's, you know, it's pretty well equipped, OK? MA: This unit is intended to be operated in remote conditions and fully self- sufficient for two days of processing. So it has all its water, fuel, everything necessary to accomplish that goal. JE: OK. We had a blessing — this was over in Kealakekua and in Captain Cook, um, the dedication was given by Kahu Akaka and, ah, it was really a spiritual, very, very spiritual event that day, upon dedicating this unit because it made it quite promising future for a lot of the producers, OK? And then we had a celebration — a new venture for Hawaii Island Meat Producers — right here we have David Fuertes and his wife, Carol, and they put together the pig and the pua'a and just enjoyed —well when the [unclear] was delicious, OK? And then we had a — during that day—we also had a membership drive and it, ah, as Mike explained, basically membership drive was, you know, to get members involved in this and then, you know, back us up on this venture and you explained a little bit about it but there was also the stock that they could purchase? MA: Yup, yup. 6