Yes please. Is there a reason we don’t test the deer that are killed here as well?
HB545
House · 2025 sessionRepublicanKilled in HouseChronic wasting disease testing for cervid meat
AIRequires the department of fish and game to maintain a list of states where chronic wasting disease has been reported in cervids and requires certain cervid meat processed outside New Hampshire to be tested for the disease before entering the state.
requiring certain cervid meat processed outside of New Hampshire to be tested for chronic wasting disease before being brought into New Hampshire.
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Killed in the House — Inexpedient to Legislate · March 6, 2025- ✓Introduced
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17 submissionsDelaying de boned meat coming into the state by sportsman only hurts the hunter as the time needed to test is to great and my force some hunters to leave meat behind
I oppose this bill.
What does this bill seek to accomplish? CWD is typically passed animal to animal, if the meat has been processed and packaged out of state, the only way for it to impact NH wildlife would be if the hunter then dumped all of their meat in the woods... Maybe a more appropriate bill would be making it a crime to dump out-of-state cervid meat in the wild in New Hampshire. This would be the actual concern, testing the meat doesn't really solve anything other than creating more regulation and burden on hunters.
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