Thread: The state of pest populations in NZ

Originally Posted by Russian 22.

You probably know more than me but there's stand down periods and an exclusion zone of X km per different types of animals and if its reapplied before its up then I suppose the period of time would roll over. Meaning that there's no point in time when it can be legally harvested for commercial purposes.

What I know is that every farm inside this defined possum control area is legally obliged to use brodi or some other possum bait, applied 3-4 times per year. Which means we've got 26,000ha (including a very significant deer population) from which maybe there should not have any wild meat harvested?

I've had a bit of a read, seems brodi collects in the liver etc in highest percentages. Eating a small amount of meat excluding any offal should be no problem even if the pest had been eating small amounts of brodi. "should be" no problem....