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distribution compile it into a recipe book so that folks know how to prepare these dishes. We also want to experiment with the value-added product market. One of the ideas that I had way back in the day – I want to say my first or second year in office was to do a smoked meat festival, um, and this was because R & D was granting $17,000.00 to the Hawaii Community College for butchery certification program and I thought, oh, take population, butchery – what would we like to do with pig meat. I don’t know about you guys but I love smoked meat and sausage and so I think that there is potentially more that can be done with this so would like to give the culinary program and our little book would be an opportunity to come up with some innovative value \[unclear\] ideas, create samples, do tasting events and see if there is a real market for us to be exporting this and then we also want to understand – with a lot of our local vet animal food producers to see if they have a desire to incorporate any of this feral pig meat into their recipes for animal feed. Any comments? BL: Brian, District – 4. Oh, go ahead… RD: Ah, Bob, District – 1. Yeah, Ashley, there were a few years ago – maybe over 10 years – that there were Chinese people on Island who were looking at the ability to get wild pig and why they were really interested is because the pig had no chemicals. And that’s very unusual in China and so they thought that it would have a niche market and they were interested. BL: Brian, District – 4. Other states and countries have already done that. Texas is one that sells wild-caught meat at a premium price – I think their wild-caught pork was like $15.00 a pound and I know in Australia there’s a big market in the European market for wild boar cause they’re not American – they like flavor to their meat and I know Australia does a lot exporting of wild- boar meat to the European market and stuff like that so it is a feasible market and being done in a lot of local restaurants will actually showcase, you know, local axis deer or wild pork or some of the other animals that we have with us \[unclear\]. AK: Yeah… BL: It’s been done in the past. AK: I think about what Maui is doing to really market venison so, I mean, I just see tremendous opportunity for us to \[unclear\] appreciate \[unclear\] Hawaii Island boar. ?: Any questions any comments? AK: \[Unclear\] ?: \[Unclear\] any comments – just write it down. SW: Well, that’s at the discretion of the Chair. ?: \[Unclear\] LT: When, ah… SW: Oh, whenever you… 7