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Katie Woolf spoke with NT Parks and Wildlife Croc Management Team Ian Hunt · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: I'll go to in two parks and wildlife first, the
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  Speaker 1: croc management team. Ian Hunt joins me on the line
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  Speaker 1: right now. Good morning to you, Ian.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning Katy. How are you going?
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  Speaker 1: Not too bad?
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  Speaker 2: Ian?
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  Speaker 1: I know that the last time you and I spoke,
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  Speaker 1: there'd been a crocodile spotted in the Darwin Harbor. But
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  Speaker 1: I understand that you guys have pulled out two large
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  Speaker 1: crocs over the weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we did. We got some calls over the weekend
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  Speaker 2: telling us that we'd actually got some crocodiles in traps
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  Speaker 2: over at woods Inlet and one down at Berry Creek,
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  Speaker 2: So we actually headed out to remove those animals. One
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  Speaker 2: of them was three point eight meters and the other
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  Speaker 2: one was three point four meters, So two quite nice
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  Speaker 2: sized crocodiles in the harbor this weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Well, to talk us through where exactly those those traps were,
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  Speaker 1: I know you said Berry Creek and woods in Late
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  Speaker 1: whereabouts are they?
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  Speaker 2: So woods in Let just across the water, literally the
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  Speaker 2: other side of the harbor to Stokesall Wharf. We were
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  Speaker 2: talking about that siding last week. And Berry Creek is
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  Speaker 2: the mouth of Very Creek down at Middle Arm, which
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  Speaker 2: is in near Blackmore River there further south.
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  Speaker 1: So could that one at Wood's endlet be the be
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  Speaker 1: the crocodile that was sighted there last Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a possibility. That's what we're hoping for. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we haven't had any outsiding since then. As the crocodile
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  Speaker 2: close to the city. It's only about nine kilometers across
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  Speaker 2: the harbor there, so it's not a big distance to
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  Speaker 2: cover for a large crocodiles. So it's a good chance
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  Speaker 2: it could be the same animal.
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  Speaker 1: And talk us through again. Sorry, I know you seed
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  Speaker 1: how big they were, but tell us again exactly how
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  Speaker 1: large these ones were.
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  Speaker 2: So the one it would he measured in at three
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  Speaker 2: point eight meters and the one we got from Berry
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  Speaker 2: Creek was three point four.
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  Speaker 1: Are they fair size for that area?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's what we need to get across
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  Speaker 2: the people. Like I think a lot of people have
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  Speaker 2: got the misconception that big crocs don't move around as
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  Speaker 2: much during the dry They kind of feel, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's just the smaller crocs moving around. But here we
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  Speaker 2: are in June with the cooler weather and we're still
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  Speaker 2: removing quite large crocodiles from the harbor. So it's just
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  Speaker 2: the time that reminds for people to be on the
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  Speaker 2: lookout and be cross wise and keep themselves safe.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely. And I know that last time we spoke
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  Speaker 1: you had told me how many crocodiles have been captured
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  Speaker 1: over the last over the last couple of months. How
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  Speaker 1: are those numbers sitting at the moment.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we've removed another eight or nine since last week,
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  Speaker 2: so I think we're up about one hundred and forty
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  Speaker 2: crocodiles removed so far this season.
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  Speaker 1: Goodness mate? Where were those other ones?
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  Speaker 2: They were removed, some all from the Harbor, There was
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  Speaker 2: some removed from Hudson Creek, one was removed from West
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  Speaker 2: Arm From memory, I think we've got one down at
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  Speaker 2: Middle Arm as well.
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  Speaker 1: Goodness mate. Now, is there any areas where you where
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  Speaker 1: you tend to find or you tend to you always
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  Speaker 1: sort of capture a crocodile in those traps that you
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  Speaker 1: set out, and any more popular areas for the crocodiles.
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  Speaker 2: The traps are all around the harbor, and there's no
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  Speaker 2: really one specific spot where we remove crocodiles from. They
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  Speaker 2: just turn up, as people know, they turn up all
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  Speaker 2: over the place, don't We've got those traps set up
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  Speaker 2: strategically around the place to make sure that we can
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  Speaker 2: get any animals that do move into the area.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I tell you what, it sounds like you guys
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  Speaker 1: are always busy doing a wonderful job that Crop Management
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  Speaker 1: team and capturing those two over the weekend. Possibly one
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  Speaker 1: of them could have been that one that was cited
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  Speaker 1: last Sunday around the area about nine k's away.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's so thanks CHV support. Kaye really appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks and always good to catch up mate. That is
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  Speaker 1: Ian Hunt there NT Parks and Wildlife Crop Management Team
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  Speaker 1: and yeah, tell you what, we knew that there was
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  Speaker 1: that crocodile was there or we'd certainly heard about that sighting,
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  Speaker 1: let's hope, but he's the one that was sited there
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  Speaker 1: last Sunday.