2014-02-24 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – February 24, 2014 you start doing with these pigs? Do we have to destroy them? I mean that’s what the law is lending towards, right, because we can’t take them somewhere else and just let them go. J. Mello (DOFAW Staff): Right now we generally waive the permit requirement for people to take pigs if they can do so safely on their private property – as long as they can so legally cause otherwise it would be a mind boggling experience for our department to be issuing that many permits, but beyond that I can answer until, you know, whatever the rules come out with – just gonna have to take our Attorney General’s interpretation to follow that. L. Hadway: And I think part of the other concern had been things like pseudo rabies and other diseases moving across the island with some of those released animals that were transported long distances cause there’s certain reservoirs and certain diseases in populations say on Hualalai but now they’ve spread as I understand it. Chair Sylvester: Does anybody have pseudo rabies? W. Camara: I see maybe one or 2 a year at work. I mean, it’s there. The odds – that is the whole pseudo rabies process is difficult. I mean you got to be really unlucky to have your dog get it. I mean it’s not so \[unclear\] people. Pigs are pretty much \[unclear\] except for the dogs. Lot of the pigs are positive but your dog can only get in it – that couple of – that one week period that they’re actually shedding the virus and it’s kind of complex. In other words you really have to be unlucky. The odds are really against getting it, you know, your dogs getting it, but what happens most of the time is when you do catch that one pig \[unclear\] majority of the time you have your pack of good dogs with you. Chair Sylvester: So consuming cooked meat is not a problem? W. Camara: Oh, no. Not a problem. Not even the dogs. I mean you cook ‘em. That’s fine. Chair Sylvester: Any further questions? Kalani? K. DeCoito: \[unclear\] release. So in other words if you \[unclear\] needs to be so called \[unclear\] so we cannot get one permit to relocate it (pigs) to areas the public hunters can’t get to? I mean, can’t we work out some kind of agreement on that? \[Silence\] K. DeCoito: OK the second question get into the disease part. Is there any documents for \[unclear\] we can review. Any type of data that was taken throughout \[unclear\] then is it a public access when we can get to it information and read about it – whether it’s Oahu – how many cases were found – I mean is there research done? Because, you know, you cannot come out and say 4