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AA: OK. Thanks. No last comments or we have fire tablet as long as you don’t answer, ask any more
<br />questions – or it looks like Nani Pogline – go ahead Nani.
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<br />NP: Hi, Nani Pogline, commenter from the public. I’m a very fortunate beneficiary of wild caught
<br />meat and I trust the hunters that I get it from, ah, are careful, and I prepare it usually pressure
<br />cooked, wash my hands. All this meat safe practices you’re taught from childhood with any raw
<br />meat and, um, I really appreciate the resource because the grocery stores are getting so
<br />expensive and I think, it’s important to also show the positive side of our wild meat resources in
<br />the Islands, we may really need them, so I am afraid we don’t want to discourage the public too
<br />much with fear, of course these things are real – but more education to teach people how to
<br />identify. It would be great if there was a meat inspection site available to the public – positive
<br />things like that – that, people wouldn’t stop using the resource, so, thank you very much.
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<br />KK: I agree. We during COVID we were very food secure – take the wild chickens for Spam \[unclear\]
<br />eggs. We do feral pig removal and it’s delicious – we eat – we rarely have to go buy meat.
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<br />RD: Kim – Duerr, District – 1. Are there any, you know, tests, field tests like for ciguatera for fish that
<br />hunters could use?
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<br />KK: Unfortunately, not. But what I can do is provide test tubes where after, you know, clean ‘em out
<br />all you got to do is catch the blood in the test tube – put a cap on it – wipe it off and it would be
<br />ideal if you were able tell me male or female, um, and as close an area that you picked up that
<br />sample from – that way we can know which sounders are maybe carrying different disease. I
<br />know there’s an area in Kurtistown that we’re focusing really hard before we’d pulled a lot of
<br />positive brucellosis’s, um, and that’s a feeder situation unfortunately, so, worse yet, with chance
<br />to concentrate that disease by having an artificial, large number of animals is very concerning,
<br />so neighbor’s, hunters in that area will do that and we will test for pseudo rabies and brucellosis.
<br />That’s all that our State’s able to afford to do, but we’ll get an idea of, um, if you know where
<br />the pigs were taken – another thing too is we see a lot of domestic pigs mixed in with the wild
<br />pigs and so it would be nice to know how many of them, you know, was it feral, was it mixed
<br />breed, um, and then just like the GPS if you have it on your phone or hey, I caught it in this
<br />section of whatever, so, again, I’ve got free test tubes out, in the front area of my office and it
<br />you just had your name/contact information and a little bit about where you got the sample
<br />from, um, and if people come to pick up the test tubes I’ll tell them the best way to try and get a
<br />good sample, because you don’t want to freeze it – you want to set it up and then I’ll send it
<br />down and send it off to our lab.
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<br />AG: Ice…?
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<br />KK: Ice is good. Ice is good. So usually what we’ll do is collect the sample – put the cap on it – cut off
<br />the bottom with like a Coke bottle or something and just stand it in there and then you could
<br />put ice around there or you could stick it in an ice chest. The main thing is you don’t shake up
<br />the blood. We want to get a nice little clot on it and then it’ll spin it down. But, if it gets to the
<br />point where its frozen or it winds up turning to chocolate then I really can’t, so… But we’ll try,
<br />we’ll try.
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<br />AA: OK. Thanks, again, Kim. Ah we look to working with you in the future…
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