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    Had some involvement in the Chch cull meat recovery - on edge of urban area so yes pretty easy logistics. Shooters gutted animals when shot and GPS'ed locations, recovery guys went in first thing and boned out the animals, packed it back to road and dropped meat off to a local home kill accredited butcher who minced, packaged and froze it and then someone dropped off to the food bank. One of the weird MPI rules was had to be an anonymous donation so the organisations behind it couldn't promote it or publicise it. Not sure how the FWF managed to get round this with their recent cull meat distribution?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jake77 View Post
    Had some involvement in the Chch cull meat recovery - on edge of urban area so yes pretty easy logistics. Shooters gutted animals when shot and GPS'ed locations, recovery guys went in first thing and boned out the animals, packed it back to road and dropped meat off to a local home kill accredited butcher who minced, packaged and froze it and then someone dropped off to the food bank. One of the weird MPI rules was had to be an anonymous donation so the organisations behind it couldn't promote it or publicise it. Not sure how the FWF managed to get round this with their recent cull meat distribution?
    This is interesting. These are a couple of key things mentioned in that statement that goes against the MPI certified supppied requirement, hence why I suspect it was "anonymous". Bonning out in the field is NOT allowed, and given the close proximity to other properties, I suspect that Pesticide Summary rules and buffer zone areas would not have been followed.

    FWF do meet the requirements and their animals are proceed by one of the few remaining wild game processors. Note that their recovery work is actually funded by ballot entires and not the sale of the meat.

    Ground hunting and recovery in step bush blocks is near impossible given the time frames to meet the Risk Based processing requirements.

    Culling to waste is going to ramp up significantly over the next few years given the rapidly growing deer population in New Zealand. This is already happening in some areas for goat, deer, tahr and wallaby, on public land too. Unfortunately, as mentioned a few times in thread, the average hunter is not doing enough to help the situation either by only shooting a handful of deer per year.

    There are no serects about ground based culling operations in NZ, these havent ever stopped since the 50-60's, just the number of them have increased or decreased over the year and at the moment, we are on the increasinge side of it again.

    And yes, my income comes from both recovery and culling of a range of difference animals.

 

 

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