2016-02-22 Game Managemetn Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes—February 22, 2016 um, watching it operation, I mean, I come from a cattle ranching family (W that's done this for well over seven generations and there's a bit of brutality that's always inherent in that process and this was impressively lacking that. The animals are in a calm state, just waiting, they literally just put captive bolt, pull the trigger and it just drops — silent— nothing going on. It's really impressive and I was like "wow" this is the way this entire industry should operate... NP: Yeah... MA: Yeah, yeah. Yeah, and it's just — it's a piece of equipment— it's manufactured in the UK and it's tailored to working in this environment under the requirements of AWA. TL: [Not speaking in mic] JE: What's that again? TL: [Not speaking in mic] JE: Ah, you know, it doesn't have the second half. MA: Yeah, it looks like you're missing... JE: Yeah, the —this was the original test that I had sent to you folks, ah, but the one I sent you on Sunday, you know, to make sure that the videos and all that stuff worked — is not here. But, that's OK, like I said, you know, it's basically the same, except the cattle, the pipi was little bit more intrusive as far as getting into the bowels, you know, and insuring and then checking, you know, that head, the inspector comes in and they have to removed the head and then put it in a certain section where the inspector comes and checks the head for whatever abnormalities there might be and then the —we also pull out the liver and check that out and any part of the inners or organs that might be — have any form of this abnormalities — let's keep it at that. And then from there if they gut and then, you know, it's the skinning process is done like halfway before they gut and everything and it— the animal is actually laid on a cradle bed and that cradle bed is really, you know, it's like, jezz, you know, I wish we had something like this when we go out into the field, yeah, but it made it really convenient, you know, to get around the animal and stuff and then it was hoisted up and then they went with the saw and cut it right down — half— and then quartered it and chunk! Right into the chill. Really fast, really fast. How many heads of cattle could we possibly do a day? MA: The capacity on the unit is between eight and ten head of cattle per day, (W ah, for sheep and goats, ah, between twenty and thirty and hogs — if we're 9